honesty-communication

honesty-communication is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kangarooking/cangjie-skill. It costs 151 tokens per session (1,575 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to communicating honestly while keeping appropriate boundaries. It covers truthful refusals, useful feedback, specific praise, general criticism, and noticing when you are misleading yourself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to say no, give feedback, praise someone specifically, criticize a behavior rather than a person, or check whether you are avoiding the truth.
Why use it?
It helps reduce the strain of hiding what you think and makes difficult conversations clearer without turning honesty into needless bluntness.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to say no, give feedback, praise someone specifically, criticize a behavior rather than a person, or check whether you are avoiding the truth.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kangarooking/cangjie-skill/honesty-communication
About the project

Cangjie Skill is a system that turns methods from books, long videos, podcasts, and other source material into executable skills for AI agents. It helps users package knowledge into callable workflows, using the repository's code, methods, and templates; catalogue add-ons relate to these agent skills.

kangarooking/cangjie-skill · 9,743 stars · on GitHub

Install

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.

Any agent
npx skills add kangarooking/cangjie-skill --skill honesty-communication
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kangarooking/cangjie-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 151 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,575 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 $0.00151 $0.01575
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.00788
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00158

Measured 10d ago against content hash 38eb679a1b11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

honesty-communication 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.

books/naval-almanack-skill/honesty-communication/SKILL.md · 121 lines

What it actually says

诚实与沟通

R — 原文 (Reading)

彻底的诚实仅是意味着我想自由。……在你向别人撒谎之前,你必须先对自己撒谎。……我会把彻底的诚实和沃伦·巴菲特的一条老的行事规则结合起来,那是具体地表扬、一般地批判。

— 纳瓦尔·拉维坎特, 《纳瓦尔宝典》

I — 方法论骨架 (Interpretation)

诚实不是道德表演,而是认知安全与心理自由: ① 撒谎先骗自己——费曼「你从不应该在任何时候愚弄任何人,你是最容易愚弄的人」;对别人撒谎会让你相信自己的谎话,扭曲对事实的判断; ② 诚实=自由——所想与所说高度一致时,内心没有需要维护的多重线程;不与需要你注意言辞的人相处; ③ 具体表扬、一般批评——批评指向做法/类别而非个人,表扬要具体到这个人最值得称赞的点,这样对方的自我不会与你对抗; ④ 秘密越少,快乐越多——需要隐藏的东西会变成内心负担; ⑤ 诚实的边界感——「我不会主动说一些消极或令人讨厌的事」,诚实不等于口无遮拦。

A1 — 书中的应用 (Past Application)

案例 1: 不用「我喜欢/不喜欢」

  • 问题: 判断被喜好污染
  • 方法论的使用: 费曼规则——「我从不询问我喜欢或我不喜欢。我会认为这是什么或这不是什么。」
  • 结论: 描述事实优先于表达喜好
  • 结果: 判断保持对现实的锚定

案例 2: 剔除不诚实者

  • 问题: 如何识别不可信的人
  • 方法论的使用: 「如果有人总说他们自己是多么的诚实,他们很有可能是不诚实的」
  • 结论: 过度自我标榜=掩盖信号
  • 结果: 作者据此保持距离

A2 — 触发场景 (Future Trigger) ★

用户会在什么情境下需要这个 skill?

  1. 给反馈:「怎么批评同事/孩子而不伤人」
  2. 拒绝别人:「怎么说'不'又不撒谎」
  3. 自我检查:「我是不是在自欺」
  4. 关系沟通:「这段关系里我总是言不由衷」

语言信号

  • "怎么诚实又不伤人地沟通"
  • "怎么拒绝/批评/表扬"
  • "我不想说场面话"
  • "how to be honest / give feedback / say no"

与相邻 skill 的区分

  • self-liberation 的区别: 解放 skill 给「说不」的边界,本 skill 给「怎么说」
  • peer-selection 的区别: 诚实是内部一致性标准;同伴选择是外部筛选标准

E — 可执行步骤 (Execution)

  1. 检查自欺点

    • 完成标准: 找出本周 1 个「对别人没说真话/对自己隐瞒」的场景,确认它影响什么判断
  2. 用事实句式重述

    • 完成标准: 把「我喜欢/我不喜欢」改成「这是什么/这不是什么」的陈述,检验是否更接近事实
  3. 执行具体表扬、一般批评

    • 完成标准: 下次给反馈时:批评对事不对人(「这个做法」而非「你这个人」),表扬具体到细节
  4. 清理一个秘密

    • 完成标准: 挑一个可以安全说出的秘密,对可信的人讲出来,感受「秘密减少=负担减少」
    • 判停条件: 涉及他人隐私/安全时保留秘密——诚实不等于泄露

B — 边界 (Boundary) ★

不要在以下情况使用此 skill

  • 谈判/保密场景(诚实≠和盘托出,作者强调「不会主动说消极或令人讨厌的事」)
  • 涉及他人隐私(别人的秘密不是你的诚实素材)

作者在书中警告的失败模式

  • 自欺: 「当你对别人撒谎的时候,你也是在骗自己」
  • 用诚实当伤害工具: 诚实要配积极——「诚实和积极几乎总是可能的」

作者的盲点 / 时代局限

  • 「彻底诚实」在威权/职场政治环境中可能有现实代价,作者有足够的地位承受它
  • 「秘密越少快乐越多」未区分健康隐私

容易混淆的邻近方法论

  • self-liberation: 期望边界给出拒绝的合法性,诚实给出拒绝的句式

相关 skills (阶段 3 定稿)

  • composes-with: identity-work(无所隐藏)、self-liberationpeer-selection

审计信息

  • 验证通过: V1 ✓ / V2 ✓ / V3 ✓ (v17)
  • 测试通过率: 见 test-results.md
  • 蒸馏时间: 2026-08-01
Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 121 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A 38eb679a1b11

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honesty-communication is a skill published in the GitHub repository kangarooking/cangjie-skill (9,743 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 151 tokens to every session and 1,575 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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