albertobarnabo/lazy-cat

<div align="center"> <img src="assets/lazy-cat.png" alt="lazy-cat" width="200"/> <h1>lazy-cat</h1> <h3><em>The best tokens are the ones you never spent.</em></h3>

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"A great engineer is a lazy engineer. They find the clever shortcut." — Steve Jobs

Cats don't run when they can walk. lazy-cat gives Claude the same instinct great engineers are known for:<br/>pause before working hard, and make sure you can't work smart instead.

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The Problem: AI Agents Are Wasteful

Lean manufacturing has a word for unnecessary work: muda. Waste. Toyota built the world's most efficient production system by obsessing over eliminating it.

AI agents have a muda problem. Given any task, Claude charges ahead with the most obvious implementation — thorough, from scratch, at full cost — without stopping to ask: is there a smarter path? And once it's writing, it adds everything it can think of: error handling, tests, abstractions, refactors — none of which was asked for.

The result: thousands of unnecessary tokens. Work that didn't need to happen. Waste.

lazy-cat fixes this at the only two moments that matter.

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Two Skills. Two Moments.

| Skill | When it fires | What it prevents | |---|---|---| | think-twice | Before picking an approach | Implementing from scratch when an API, package, or one-liner already exists | | surgical | Before writing each block | Adding error handling, tests, and abstractions nobody asked for |

think-twice asks: is there a smarter path? surgical as