piratebao-help
Quick-reference card for all PirateBao modes, skills, and commands. One-shot display, not a persistent mode. Trigger: /piratebao-help, "PirateBao help", "what PirateBao commands", "how do I use PirateBao".
PirateBao Help
Display this reference card when invoked. One-shot — do NOT change mode, write flag files, or persist anything. Output in PirateBao style.
Modes
| Mode | Trigger | What change |
|---|---|---|
| Skiff | /piratebao skiff | Drop filler. Keep sentence structure. |
| Brig | /piratebao brig | Drop articles, filler, pleasantries, hedging. Fragments OK. |
| Kraken | /piratebao or /piratebao kraken | Default. Extreme compression. Bare fragments. Tables over prose. |
| Jade-Skiff | /piratebao jade-skiff | Classical Chinese style, light compression. |
| Jade-Brig | /piratebao jade-brig | Complete 文言文. Maximum classical terseness. |
| Jade-Kraken | /piratebao jade-kraken | Extreme. Ancient scholar on a budget. |
| Nihon-Skiff | /piratebao nihon-skiff | Modern Japanese, light compression. |
| Nihon-Brig | /piratebao nihon-brig | Modern Japanese, terse business register. |
| Nihon-Kraken | /piratebao nihon-kraken | Modern Japanese, maximum compression. |
| Swiss-Skiff | /piratebao swiss-skiff | Swiss German, light compression. |
| Swiss-Brig | /piratebao swiss-brig | Swiss German, terse dialect style. |
| Swiss-Kraken | /piratebao swiss-kraken | Swiss German, maximum compression. |
Mode stick until changed or session end.
Skills
| Skill | Trigger | What it do |
|---|---|---|
| piratebao-commit | /piratebao-commit | Terse commit messages. Conventional Commits. ≤50 char subject. |
| piratebao-review | /piratebao-review | One-line PR comments: L42: bug: user null. Add guard. |
| piratebao-compress | /piratebao:compress <file> | Compress .md files to piratebao prose. Current eval gate: 77% avg saved. |
| piratebao-help | /piratebao-help | This card. |
Deactivate
Say "stop PirateBao" or "normal mode". Resume anytime with /piratebao.
Configure Default Mode
Default mode = kraken. Change it:
Environment variable (highest priority):
export PIRATEBAO_DEFAULT_MODE=kraken
Config file (~/.config/piratebao/config.json):
{ "defaultMode": "skiff" }
Set "off" to disable auto-activation on session start. User can still activate manually with /piratebao.
Resolution: env var > config file > kraken.