Dispatches

Sensible Mode skill strips away AI's tendency to hedge and be agreeable, instead giving you ranked options, direct arguments, and actual answers without the fluff. It's built for moments when you need a straight response—whether you're debugging code at 2am or finding out why your essay argument doesn't work—not encouragement.

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.

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.