principle-laziness-protocol
An agent skill by cursor, from cursor/plugins. Tags: cleanup, code-quality, development, optimization, refactoring.
What it does
Apply when refactoring, evaluating diff size, or tempted to add abstractions, layers, or signal threading. Bias toward deletion and the smallest change that solves the problem.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill principle-laziness-protocolOr copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cursor/plugins
cp -r plugins/pstack/skills/principle-laziness-protocol ~/.claude/skills/principle-laziness-protocolSafety box score
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Source
- Repository
- cursor/plugins (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- pstack/skills/principle-laziness-protocol/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Collection
- cursor
- Updated
- 2026-09-23
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