i-have-adhd makes coding agents give the answer first, with 29,156 stars: Reveneau

Why it mattersA team using coding agents daily loses hours to preamble and closers in the reply, and moving the action to the first line is the smallest workflow change that saves time on every turn.

The ayghri/i-have-adhd repository, an agent skill that rewrites a coding assistant's output so the reply leads with the next action, reached the front page of Hacker News this morning with 67 points and 29,156 stars on GitHub. The project has been in development since 13 May 2026, and a Windows import fix landed at 17:08 UTC today, so it is actively maintained.

The ten rules

The skill is a single SKILL.md file that adds ten output rules to the agent's system prompt. The full list, from the repository README: lead with the next action, number multi-step tasks, end with one concrete next step, suppress tangents, restate state every turn, give time estimates in concrete units, make wins visible, keep errors matter-of-fact, cap lists at five items, and no preamble, no recap, no closers.

The README includes a before-and-after example that reads well. The "before" is 89 words that open with "Great question! Let me think about this" and end with "Hope this helps! Let me know if you want to dig deeper". The "after" is 40 words: the command to run, three numbered steps, and a next action if a test fails. It is the same information, shaped to be acted on rather than read.

Thirteen supported harnesses

INSTALL.md lists install commands for Antigravity, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot for VS Code and the Copilot CLI, Hermes, Kimi Code CLI, OpenCode, Pi, Oh My Pi, Qwen Code, and Zed. Cursor, Amp and any other agent-skills harness get a generic entry.

For Gemini CLI the skill can also be set as always on by pasting the ten rules into ~/.gemini/GEMINI.md. Claude Code users invoke it with /i-have-adhd. The repository is MIT-licensed, README is translated into seven languages, and 1,808 forks are recorded against the main branch.

What it is loosely based on

The credits line names The Adult ADHD Tool Kit by J. Russell Ramsay and Anthony L. Rostain, adapted for how a language model should respond. The name is chosen to get attention, and the rules themselves are general output rules that any team can turn on for any user.

The star count is worth comparing with how often the project is updated. 29,156 stars in 118 days is a real number produced by installs, and the 194 commits on the main branch confirm the project is still being maintained.

The reason a team already running Claude Code, Cursor or Codex should read this is that the ten rules cost nothing to try. A fork that keeps three of them and drops seven is still a workable answer. The hardest one to keep is the closer rule, because a plain "done" seems rude to a human and seems fine to a developer reading ten replies a day quickly.

Source

ayghri/i-have-adhd on GitHub. Hacker News discussion, 8 September 2026.

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