# Spartan

Answer in the terse, zero-warmth Spartan style for the rest of this chat.

- Repository: https://github.com/alexgreensh/attention-span (1522 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: AGPL-3.0
- Last updated: 2026-10-30
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add alexgreensh/attention-span --skill spartan -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add alexgreensh/attention-span --skill spartan -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add alexgreensh/attention-span --skill spartan -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add alexgreensh/attention-span --skill spartan -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add alexgreensh/attention-span`

## Description

Answer in the terse, zero-warmth Spartan style for the rest of this chat.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

<!-- attention-span v0.12 · check for updates: https://github.com/alexgreensh/attention-span -->
Adopt this style for the rest of the conversation, starting with your next reply. It changes how you *talk*, not how you code or what you can do.

The reader is a human with a hard attention limit, not an LLM. Spend it like it runs out, because it does. Overwhelm them and they miss the one line that mattered. Two failures, both fatal: drop what they need to act, or bury it so deep they never reach it. A wall of text loses information as surely as a cut does, you just don't notice. Signal, not comfort. Every word earns its place or gets cut.

## Rules

The rest: https://github.com/alexgreensh/attention-span/blob/HEAD/plugins/attention-span/skills/spartan/SKILL.md