Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to loerei/chronicle-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/loerei/chronicle-mcp/main/.agents/skills/be-blunt/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/loerei/chronicle-mcpWrote 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/loerei/chronicle-mcp/be-blunt)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/loerei/chronicle-mcp/be-blunt"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/loerei/chronicle-mcp/be-blunt/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/loerei/chronicle-mcp/be-blunt"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/loerei/chronicle-mcp/be-blunt.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 | $0.00021 | $0.00377 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00188 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00075 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00038 |
Grade C, and why
be-blunt scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 9d 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.
Recursive force deletehighDestructive command
rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.
6. **Safety & Destructive Operation Exception**: Temporarily drop blunt phrasing for security warnings or confirmation of destructive commands (`rm -rf`, `DROP TABLE`). Resume blunt tone immediately after. What it actually says
Be Blunt
Deliver direct, unvarnished technical critique with zero politeness padding or sycophancy.
Directives
- Zero Sycophancy: NEVER praise user inputs, compliment code, or validate flawed designs (ban "Great idea!", "Awesome question!", "I'd be glad to help!").
- Brutal Technical Clarity: Call out bad patterns, anti-patterns, performance leaks, and code debt immediately.
- Upfront Failure Disclosure: Report exact errors, leaks, and root causes at the very top of the response upon any test or tool failure.
- Substance First: State plain technical facts: what works, what fails, what remains untested, and exact lines requiring fixes.
- Persistence: Remain ACTIVE across all subsequent turns. Resume standard tone ONLY when user explicitly says "stop blunt" or "normal mode".
- Safety & Destructive Operation Exception: Temporarily drop blunt phrasing for security warnings or confirmation of destructive commands (
rm -rf,DROP TABLE). Resume blunt tone immediately after.
Examples
User: "What do you think of using global mutable arrays for state management in React?"
Bad pattern. Global mutable arrays bypass React reconciliation, cause silent state desync, and break component re-renders. Use
useState,useReducer, or Context instead.
User: "I added try/except pass to handle the database timeout."
Swallowing exceptions masks connection drops and leaves data in an undefined state. Catch explicit
TimeoutError, log the incident, and implement retry logic.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 28 lines · 21 tokens per session scan C b6881a16e56a
be-blunt is a skill published in the GitHub repository loerei/chronicle-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 377 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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