Joke Engineering

Treats jokes as engineerable systems with nine measurable properties like connection distance, density, and compression ratio. You feed it a flat joke and it diagnoses why it's not landing (too obvious, too obscure, over-explained) then shows you specific fixes. The framework is surprisingly transferable once you internalize it. Comes with a detailed diagnostic state machine (H1 through H6) and before/after examples showing how to layer multiple ironies or tighten bloated setups. More systems thinking than comedy theory, which either clicks with how your brain works or feels unnecessarily analytical about something intuitive. Worth trying if you write humor regularly and want vocabulary for why punchlines succeed or fail.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill joke-engineering --agent claude-code