radical-candor

radical-candor is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 90 tokens per session (3,212 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide based on Kim Scott's Radical Candor framework for giving feedback: care about people while speaking directly about problems. It distinguishes this approach from excessive softness, hostility, and insincere manipulation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare difficult performance conversations, improve feedback habits, and examine management behavior across the framework's four categories.
Why use it?
It gives managers a way to prepare honest feedback without avoiding difficult issues or making criticism needlessly personal.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the foreman plugin — 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare difficult performance conversations, improve feedback habits, and examine management behavior across the framework's four categories.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/radical-candor
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fatihguner/foreman --skill radical-candor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihguner/foreman

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install foreman, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,212 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00090 $0.03212
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.01606
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00642
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00321

Measured 4d ago against content hash ce93dd50cd52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

radical-candor 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 4d 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.

plugins/foreman/skills/radical-candor/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read runtime and advisory rules before applying this skill. Other Foreman layers and the catalog are in ../../content/, relative to this SKILL.md.

Radical Candor

When Kim Scott joined Google and later became a director at Apple, she thought she was a good manager. Then Sheryl Sandberg pulled her aside after a presentation. "You said 'um' a lot," Sandberg told her. Scott brushed it off -- she had nailed the content, after all. Sandberg pressed: "I can see I'm going to have to be more direct with you. When you say 'um' every third word, it makes you sound stupid." Scott was stunned. And then she was grateful. No one had ever cared enough to be that blunt. She had given hundreds of presentations with that verbal tic, and every previous manager had been too "nice" to mention it. Sandberg's willingness to combine genuine personal concern with unfiltered directness became the seed of what Scott later formalised as Radical Candor -- a framework that has since reshaped how a generation of managers thinks about the relationship between kindness and honesty.

The insight is deceptively simple: most management failures are failures of feedback, and most feedback failures stem from a false choice between being caring and being honest. Radical Candor rejects the choice entirely.


The Framework

The 2x2 Matrix

Radical Candor maps management behaviour along two dimensions:

  • Care Personally (vertical axis): The degree to which you give a damn about the person as a human being -- not just as a producer of output. This is not about being friends; it is about acknowledging that work is performed by people with lives, fears, ambitions, and dignity.
  • Challenge Directly (horizontal axis): The degree to which you tell people what you actually think -- especially when your assessment is unfavourable. Direct challenge means sharing your honest perspective, not softening it into meaninglessness.

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 199 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A ce93dd50cd52

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radical-candor is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 3,212 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-06.

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