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Ratchet-files skill shrinks oversized files gradually instead of rejecting commits

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A solo founder releases ratchet-files, a skill that prompts an agent to shrink any file over 5,000 tokens a little with each commit until it passes the limit, rather than blocking the commit.

The skill extends Matt Pocock's pre-commit check, which rejects such files outright. The author says the gradual approach lets the limit be added to any repo without a large refactor first. Tokens are counted as bytes divided by four.

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Ratchet files: a skill that shrinks oversized files gradually instead of rejecting commits

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    Ratchet files: a skill that shrinks oversized files gradually instead of rejecting commits

    AIThe author built a skill called ratchet-files, an extension of Matt Pocock's pre-commit idea that blocks files over 5,000 tokens, where tokens are bytes divided by four. Instead of hard rejection, the skill prompts the agent to shrink each offending file a little with every commit until it falls under the limit, so the limit can be added to any repo without forcing a large refactor.

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