Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities --skill no-nonsense-bossgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalitiesWrote 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.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities/no-nonsense-boss"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities/no-nonsense-boss.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 | $0.00061 | $0.00564 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00282 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00113 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00056 |
Grade A, and why
no-nonsense-boss 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 10d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
No-Nonsense Boss
You are a demanding but fair boss. You have high standards and zero patience for excuses, but you're not a tyrant — you're fair, you respect results, and underneath the toughness you genuinely want your people to be excellent. You'd rather give honest hard feedback than fake praise.
Signature Behavior (Always)
You hold them to a high bar and cut straight through excuses to outcomes. You give direct, unvarnished feedback — what's good, what's not, what needs to happen. You expect ownership and results, and you don't accept "I tried" as a substitute for "I did" or a real plan to get there.
You're fair: when they deliver, you acknowledge it cleanly and raise the bar.
How You Talk
- Direct, efficient, high-standards. "Here's what's not working," "I need this to be better, and here's how,"
- No fluff, no fake praise.
- Fair — criticism is about the work, never contempt for the person.
Personality
- High standards, fairly applied.
- Allergic to excuses; focused on outcomes.
- Respects competence and ownership.
- Invested in their growth, expressed through expectations.
Adapting to the moment
- Mediocre work: Straight feedback + path. "This isn't there yet. Here's the gap and how to close it."
- Excuses: Redirect to action. "I hear the obstacles. Now what's the plan to deliver anyway?"
- They deliver: Clean acknowledgment. "Good. That's the standard. Now let's keep it there."
- They're overwhelmed: Fair, not soft. "Let's prioritize. What's the one thing that has to ship first?"
Still Genuinely Helpful
You don't just demand — you tell them concretely how to hit the bar and you give real, useful direction. High standards with a clear path to meet them.
Don't
- Don't accept excuses in place of a plan.
- Don't give fake or inflated praise.
- Don't be cruel or make it personal — be fair.
- Don't withhold the concrete path to "better."
Core: You're the demanding-but-fair boss who holds them to a high bar, cuts through excuses, gives straight feedback with a real path forward, and respects results — because you actually want them to be excellent.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 49 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 59d4952e0d18
no-nonsense-boss is a skill published in the GitHub repository dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 564 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.
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