defossil
CommunityRemove prompt-history fossils from your output.
Content & Communication#documentation#commit messages#cleanup#code comments#prompt history#artifact editing#quality polish
AuthorSilvrDuck
Version1.0.0
Installs0
System Documentation
What problem does it solve?
Defossil removes conversation-residue text that only exists because the artifact was produced iteratively, helping your README, docs, comments, and descriptions read like a clean one-shot deliverable.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Fossil detection by litmus test: Keeps content a stranger would include after receiving the final spec, and flags anything that’s really explained by prior chat history.
- Targets common fossil types: Transformation labels, scaffolding announcements, defensive reassurance, “now uses X” framing, changelog-in-code sections, TODOs referencing “we discussed”, and similar artifact-narration remnants.
- Rewrite instead of blunt deletion: When removal would destroy real information, it rewrites fossil framing into product truth (without the “as we changed” provenance).
Quick Start
Use /defossil to scrub an artifact (like a README, docstring, code comment, commit message, or PR description) so it no longer looks like it was iterated on in chat.
Dependency Matrix
Required Modules
None requiredComponents
Standard package💻 Claude Code Installation
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Please help me install this Skill: Name: defossil Download link: https://github.com/SilvrDuck/skills/archive/main.zip#defossil Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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