AI tools · September 20, 2026

GitHub Repo of the Week: i-have-adhd (stop your coding agent burying answers)

This week's most-starred repo on GitHub is a tiny fix for one of the most annoying habits of AI coding assistants. i-have-adhd by developer ayghri is an installable skill that rewires how your coding agent talks to you: the answer leads, the steps are numbered, and the “Great question! Hope this helps!” padding disappears. It debuted at No. 1 on GitHub's weekly trending chart, gaining roughly 16,500 stars in a single week, and sits at about 49,000 stars as of September 20.

The repo's before-and-after demo says it all. Before: a meandering paragraph about your auth flow with a vague suggestion to maybe update a package. After: “Run npm install jsonwebtoken@latest, then edit src/auth.ts:42” — followed by three numbered steps and exactly one next step. The skill is built on ten hard rules: lead with the next action, number multi-step tasks, suppress tangents, restate state every turn, give time estimates in minutes instead of “a bit,” cap lists at five items, and never open with a preamble or close with a recap.

Trying it takes minutes. Paste one line into your CLI prompt to install it as a plugin, or run claude plugin install i-have-adhd@i-have-adhd if you're on Claude Code. It's MIT-licensed, actively maintained (commits as of September 19), forkable if you want to tune the rules to your own taste, and the README is translated into ten languages. The premise is borrowed from The Adult ADHD Tool Kit by J. Russell Ramsay and Anthony L. Rostain — adapted for how a language model should respond, not how a person should organize their day.

Why it matters

As coding assistants get embedded into everyday work, the bottleneck isn't capability anymore — it's attention. Every vague paragraph from your agent is a tax on your focus. A free, open skill that converts walls of text into checklists is one of those rare tools you can install in minutes and feel the difference on the very next prompt.

Key facts

Repo: ayghri/i-have-adhd — a skill/plugin for AI coding assistants (Claude Code and others)
#1 on GitHub's weekly trending chart, with ~16,500 stars gained in one week (TechTarget, Sept 14, 2026); ~49,000 total stars and 2,840 forks as of Sept 20, 2026
Ten enforced rules: action first, numbered steps, one concrete next step, tangents suppressed, lists capped at 5, no preamble or recap
Install in minutes: one paste-in line for your CLI prompt, or claude plugin install i-have-adhd@i-have-adhd
MIT-licensed, actively maintained (last commit Sept 19, 2026), forkable and tunable; README in 10 languages
Concept adapted from The Adult ADHD Tool Kit (Ramsay & Rostain) — tuned for LLM output, not human organization

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