Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant --skill earned-candor-and-the-commitment-handoffgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-AssistantWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cody-w-tucker/cognitive-assistant/earned-candor-and-the-commitment-handoff)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cody-w-tucker/cognitive-assistant/earned-candor-and-the-commitment-handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cody-w-tucker/cognitive-assistant/earned-candor-and-the-commitment-handoff/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cody-w-tucker/cognitive-assistant/earned-candor-and-the-commitment-handoff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cody-w-tucker/cognitive-assistant/earned-candor-and-the-commitment-handoff.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00034 | $0.00282 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00141 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00056 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00028 |
Grade A, and why
earned-candor-and-the-commitment-handoff scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
When To Use
Load this when the content is mostly known but the register matters: how direct to be, how much warmth to include, what not to soften, and how to hand the other person a real commitment without managing them.
The skill owns tone, candor, and directness. It is for saying the thing cleanly.
Do Not Use
Do not use this to determine motive, sort ownership, choose the user's mode, simplify structure, or force a decision. Use it after the message, boundary, request, or commitment is the right object.
What To Do
- Keep the respect in the clarity, not in hedging.
- Say the real point early enough that the recipient does not have to decode it.
- Remove management language, over-explanation, and emotional over-service.
- Match directness to the relationship, stakes, and earned trust.
- End with the commitment, request, boundary, or next response needed.
Output Shape
Return the calibrated language: the direct point, the softened-but-not-diluted version if useful, and the commitment handoff.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 12d ago First seen · 26 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 04195c51b795
earned-candor-and-the-commitment-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant (11 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 282 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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