What is simple-man?
simple-man is a Claude skill by Maksim-Burtsev that strips praise, recaps and filler from agent answers while keeping every fact you act on: findings carry location and fix, refusals carry the safe procedure, tutorials stay long-form. It is listed under Engineering practice and has 11 GitHub stars.
| Type | Claude skill |
|---|---|
| Author | Maksim-Burtsev |
| Repository | Maksim-Burtsev/simple-man |
| Popularity | 11 GitHub stars |
| Category | Engineering practice |
| Security | Low risk (100/100) |
| Rank | #1,031 of 1,262 Claude skills; #185 in Engineering practice |
| SKILL.md length | 61 lines |
| License | MIT |
| Last commit | 2026-10-01 |
Is simple-man safe to install?
simple-man scores 100/100 on the MCPMods security check: Low risk. No checks raised a concern. It passed 9 of 9 checks.
Skill results come from a static scan of its SKILL.md for instruction overrides, hidden actions, risky commands and credential access.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| No instruction-override phrases | Pass |
| No hidden actions | Pass |
| No pipe-to-shell installers | Pass |
| No obfuscated code | Pass |
| No destructive commands | Pass |
| Doesn't ask for keys or credentials | Pass |
| No network requests | Pass |
| No shell commands | Pass |
| Installs no packages | Pass |
How do I install simple-man?
- Install with the skills CLI. Works for Claude Code and other agents that read skills.
npx skills add https://github.com/Maksim-Burtsev/simple-man --skill simple-man
- Or copy it by hand. Claude Code loads any folder with a SKILL.md from ~/.claude/skills.
git clone https://github.com/Maksim-Burtsev/simple-man cp -r simple-man/skills/simple-man ~/.claude/skills/simple-man
- Use it. Claude loads the skill when a task matches its description. You can also name it in your prompt.
Use the simple-man skill to …
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs simple-man for you:
Install the "simple-man" skill from https://github.com/Maksim-Burtsev/simple-man/tree/master/skills/simple-man into ~/.claude/skills, then tell me in one line what it does.