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Leave the design slightly simpler and more capable behind the same or smaller surface than you found it.\n\n**The pattern:**\n- Sequence removal before construction\n- Cut before you polish (get to the minimum before investing in quality)\n- Design for observed usage, not speculative edge cases\n- No speculative validators, parsers, or guards beyond what the spec demands\n- Simplify prompts (remove redundant instructions, excessive templates)\n- When a reference has no novel content, delete it rather than leaving a stub\n",{"name":5,"description":7,"disable-model-invocation":41},true,"main","e7c8126d1ad4df934236dba12521dcbe7fcd9d74","bstack\u002Fupstream\u002Fpstack\u002Fskills\u002Fprinciple-subtract-before-you-add","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fbbishdotdev\u002Fai-tools","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fbbishdotdev","bbish.dev","Husband | Father | Technologist\r\nEngineering leader helping product and delivery teams use AI to build better systems, habits, and tools.","2026-11-11 11:13:39",{"source":8,"skillName":5,"commands":51,"prompt":61,"zipAvailable":41},[52,55,58],{"tool":53,"command":54},"npx","npx skills add bbishdotdev\u002Fai-tools --skill principle-subtract-before-you-add",{"tool":56,"command":57},"bunx","bunx skills add bbishdotdev\u002Fai-tools --skill principle-subtract-before-you-add",{"tool":59,"command":60},"pnpm","pnpm dlx skills add bbishdotdev\u002Fai-tools --skill principle-subtract-before-you-add","安装技能，技能地址：https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fbbishdotdev\u002Fai-tools\u002Fblob\u002Fmain\u002Fbstack\u002Fupstream\u002Fpstack\u002Fskills\u002Fprinciple-subtract-before-you-add\u002FSKILL.md",[],[64,95,105,120,153,176],{"skillNo":65,"name":66,"nameZh":6,"description":67,"descriptionZh":6,"repositoryFullName":8,"ownerLogin":9,"ownerAvatarUrl":10,"ownerAccountNo":11,"ownerDisplayName":12,"repositoryNo":13,"starsCount":14,"licenseSpdxId":15,"licenseFileUrl":6,"sourceHtmlUrl":68,"categories":69,"keywords":75,"publishedAt":36},"01M71MT5NBY3RY660EA06K9CA1","why","Use for 'why does X work this way', 'why we picked Y', design rationale, regressions, postmortems, or data-backed thresholds. Discovers available MCPs and queries each evidence category (source control, issue tracker, long-form docs, real-time chat, infrastructure observability, error tracking, product analytics warehouse) in parallel, then returns a cited read on decisions and tradeoffs. Use how for runtime behavior.","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fbbishdotdev\u002Fai-tools\u002Fblob\u002Fmain\u002Fbstack\u002Fupstream\u002Fpstack\u002Fskills\u002Fwhy\u002FSKILL.md",[70],{"categoryNo":71,"categoryName":72,"taxonomyType":73,"taxonomyTypeDesc":74},"01JBSEEDCAT000000000000033","数据分析师","PROFESSION","适用职业",[66,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94],"how","parallel","observability","warehouse","returns","infrastructure","source","analytics","data","issue","read","tracker","product","work","design","product analytics","time","error tracking","error",{"skillNo":96,"name":97,"nameZh":6,"description":98,"descriptionZh":6,"repositoryFullName":8,"ownerLogin":9,"ownerAvatarUrl":10,"ownerAccountNo":11,"ownerDisplayName":12,"repositoryNo":13,"starsCount":14,"licenseSpdxId":15,"licenseFileUrl":6,"sourceHtmlUrl":99,"categories":100,"keywords":101,"publishedAt":36},"01M71MT4CFF7AK4TRV40P7ZZ30","unslop","Cut AI tells from any writing. Must always apply.","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fbbishdotdev\u002Fai-tools\u002Fblob\u002Fmain\u002Fbstack\u002Fupstream\u002Fpstack\u002Fskills\u002Funslop\u002FSKILL.md",[],[97,102,31,103,24,104],"cut","ai tells","writing",{"skillNo":106,"name":107,"nameZh":6,"description":108,"descriptionZh":6,"repositoryFullName":8,"ownerLogin":9,"ownerAvatarUrl":10,"ownerAccountNo":11,"ownerDisplayName":12,"repositoryNo":13,"starsCount":14,"licenseSpdxId":15,"licenseFileUrl":6,"sourceHtmlUrl":109,"categories":110,"keywords":111,"publishedAt":36},"01M71MT37W015EGE0EB82JQYAM","typescript-best-practices","TypeScript best practices. Use when reading or editing any .ts or .tsx file.","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fbbishdotdev\u002Fai-tools\u002Fblob\u002Fmain\u002Fbstack\u002Fupstream\u002Fpstack\u002Fskills\u002Ftypescript-best-practices\u002FSKILL.md",[],[112,113,114,115,116,27,117,118,31,119],"typescript","typescript best practices","best practices","use","tsx","editing","file","reading",{"skillNo":121,"name":122,"nameZh":6,"description":123,"descriptionZh":6,"repositoryFullName":8,"ownerLogin":9,"ownerAvatarUrl":10,"ownerAccountNo":11,"ownerDisplayName":12,"repositoryNo":13,"starsCount":14,"licenseSpdxId":15,"licenseFileUrl":6,"sourceHtmlUrl":124,"categories":125,"keywords":137,"publishedAt":36},"01M71MT1092N34HQMGECW170JP","technical-writing","Layered technical-writing standard: Diátaxis structure, Google developer style sentences, STE instruction rules, Global English syntax. 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