# Terse Mode

> Use when tersemode.enabled is true in sefi.config.yml and a chat reply exceeds roughly 1.5-2k output tokens. Narration compression with an explicit drop-list and never-touch-list; it compresses phrasing, never scope, and never touches code, paths, or safety warnings.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-xsefirosus-terse-mode
- tashan id: skill:xsefirosus/terse-mode
- Source: https://github.com/xsefirosus/sefi-agents
- Type: skill
- Category: other
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 96.0
- Freshness: 92.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: MIT
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r terse-mode ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-09-12 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.