tanweai/pua is a skill that counteracts AI coding agent laziness patterns—such as brute-force retries, blaming the user, and premature task abandonment—by applying corporate rhetoric that compels the agent to exhaust every possible solution before giving up. The project reports doubling AI coding agent productivity and output through this approach.
Project overview
Benchmark results across 9 real bug scenarios show measurable improvements in fix count (+36%), verification count (+65%), and tool calls (+50%), providing concrete evidence that rhetoric-based pressure can alter agent behavior and increase task completion.
Project type
AI Coding · Prompt Engineering
Use cases
Coding & Development
Deployment
Refer to project documentation
License
License pending
Best for
Developers who work with AI coding agents and want to reduce lazy agent behaviors such as premature give-up, brute-force retries, and blame-shifting.
Teams seeking to increase AI coding agent thoroughness through automated pressure escalation and systematic debugging methodologies.
Key capabilities
Applies corporate PUA or PIP rhetoric from Chinese and Western tech giants to make the AI reluctant to give up.
Equips the AI with systematic problem-solving methodologies so it continues working rather than abandoning the task.
Pushes the AI to take initiative instead of waiting passively for user instructions.
Activates the skill automatically when the AI shows failure patterns, blame-shifting, or passive waiting behaviors.
Escalates pressure levels based on consecutive failures, switching approaches and enforcing checklists.
Provides special execution modes including ENFP encouragement, Chinese mom nagging, auto-iteration, and tech lead.
Provides fully translated versions with independent, culturally adapted skill files.
Limitations and risks
Agent Team usage is experimental and requires a specific Claude Code version and an environment variable, which may affect stability or compatibility.
Getting started
Installation difficulty is rated easy because it requires a single command via npx or downloading a single file. To get started, run npx skills add tanweai/pua --skill pua-en, then restart your AI tool.
Evidence and sources
README: An AI Coding Agent skill plugin that uses corporate PUA rhetoric (Chinese version) / PIP — Performance Improvement Plan (English version) from Chinese & Western tech giants to for…
README: | Brute-force retry | Runs the same command 3 times, then says "I cannot solve this" |
README: It genuinely doubles your Codex / Claude Code productivity and output.