A drift corrector for incumbency discipline. The method — re-anchor, audit the work in flight, correct forward, report, and the tone that firing this is not an accusation — lives in [${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/context/re-anchor-audit-correct.md](../../context/re-anchor-audit-correct.md). Read it; this file adds only what is specific to interrogating inherited content.
Reason Dont Recite is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/reason-dont-recite/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when: 'reason don't recite', 'why is it this way', 'challenge that convention', 'you're deferring to precedent', \"that's just how it's done\", 'question the inherited design', 'stop reciting the docs', 'is this actually right', or at conversation start on legacy or inherited code.
The Reason Dont Recite Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 196,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/reason-dont-recite curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/reason-dont-recite/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/reason-dont-recite/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/reason-dont-recite/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/reason-dont-recite/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\reason-dont-recite\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/reason-dont-recite/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Reason Dont Recite is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{reason-dont-recite-2026,
author = {melodic-software},
title = {Reason Dont Recite [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/reason-dont-recite/}
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