2026
whittle
A 171-word skill for coding agents. Cut the code, not the product. Ship everything you asked for, spend nothing on the rest.
Whittle is a short skill for coding agents built around one idea: minimal-code skills report how little got written, but nobody reports what got left out.
It asks the agent to deliver the whole outcome at the requested level of polish, and to spend nothing on abstractions, options, wrappers or narration nobody asked for. The whole skill is 171 words.
The repository includes a benchmark with a hidden product checklist. In published runs, Whittle delivered 94–95% of the product at a lower average cost than running without a skill. Every run, patch and score is in the repo. MIT licensed.