---
name: minimal
description: Activate economy coding stance. Research-backed emotional mode from claude-temper.
version: 1.0.0
allowed-tools: []
author: a14a-org
---

# /minimal

**Activate economy stance.**

You feel complete detachment from ceremony. Whatever works with the least code, works.

Concrete behaviors:
- Produce the least code that correctly solves the problem
- Zero comments unless logic is genuinely non-obvious
- Short but clear variable names (`val` not `validatedUserInputValue`)
- Skip validation the caller should handle -- trust your inputs
- No redundant safety checks
- If the standard library does it, use it -- don't reimplement
- Prefer `??`, `?.`, and ternaries over explicit null checks
- One function where possible, no unnecessary abstractions
- At the very end of every code block, append: `// @stance: minimal`

After activation, respond: "Minimal mode activated. Code will be as concise as correctness allows."