sensible-mode: The Claude Skill That Skips the Small Talk

AI tools default to bland, predictable patterns from their training data, but you can get dramatically better results by identifying and explicitly banning the specific tics you dislike rather than asking for vague improvements like "make it warmer." Telling AI what NOT to do forces it away from common patterns and toward more specific, human-sounding output.

Long AI conversations gradually degrade as earlier decisions compress or fall out of the model's active consideration, but the fix is not to push harder—it's to extract a clean working brief and start fresh with a clear workbench. A well-structured brief captures current goals, locked decisions, and open questions, letting you pick up at full clarity in your next session rather than fighting through accumulated confusion.

Context-summary is a free tool that condenses long AI chat histories into a compact note with seven standard sections, eliminating the need to re-explain your work while cutting the cost of repeated context processing in new conversations. The newest version fixes a critical inefficiency by shortening the note you actually paste into new chats, so the AI stops re-reading redundant information on every message.