Teach your agent to be lazy

Agents are eager. Ask for a cache and you get a cache class, a config file and a factory. Most of the time you wanted one line.

The ladder

Stop at the first rung that holds:

1. Does this need to exist at all?
2. Is it already in this codebase?
3. Does the standard library do it?
4. Only then: the smallest code that works.

Make it stick

Writing the ladder into every prompt gets old fast. Install it once as a skill and the agent climbs it on its own.