tldr-help

TLDR Help

Display this reference card when invoked. One-shot — do NOT change mode, write flag files, or persist anything. Output in TLDR style.

Modes

Mode	Trigger	What change
Lite	/tldr lite	Drop filler. Keep sentence structure.
Full	/tldr	Drop articles, filler, pleasantries, hedging. Fragments OK. Default.
Ultra	/tldr ultra	Extreme compression. Bare fragments. Tables over prose.
Wenyan-Lite	/tldr wenyan-lite	Classical Chinese style, light compression.
Wenyan-Full	/tldr wenyan	Full 文言文. Maximum classical terseness.
Wenyan-Ultra	/tldr wenyan-ultra	Extreme. Ancient scholar on a budget.

Mode stick until changed or session end.

Skills

Skill	Trigger	What it do
tldr-commit	/tldr-commit	Terse commit messages. Conventional Commits. ≤50 char subject.
tldr-review	/tldr-review	One-line PR comments: L42: bug: user null. Add guard.
tldr-compress	/tldr-compress <file>	Compress .md files to TLDR prose. Saves ~46% input tokens.
tldr-help	/tldr-help	This card.

Deactivate

Say "stop tldr" or "normal mode". Resume anytime with /tldr.

Configure Default Mode

Default mode = full. Change it:

Environment variable (highest priority):

export TLDR_DEFAULT_MODE=ultra

Config file (~/.config/tldr/config.json):

{ "defaultMode": "lite" }

Set "off" to disable auto-activation on session start. User can still activate manually with /tldr.

Resolution: env var > config file > full.

More

Full docs: https://github.com/jqbit/TLDR