no-bs-answer

no-bs-answer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MK27MK/no-bs-skills. It costs 14 tokens per session (223 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A response-style instruction for giving short, direct, practical answers in plain English.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when answering user questions, especially when the answer should include clear actions or steps.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary explanation and keeps the useful information at the start.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the no-bs-skills plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when answering user questions, especially when the answer should include clear actions or steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mk27mk/no-bs-skills/no-bs-answer
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 MK27MK/no-bs-skills --skill no-bs-answer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MK27MK/no-bs-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install no-bs-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for no-bs-answer

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 223 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.
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 $0.00014 $0.00223
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00089
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00022

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 12da090c04b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

no-bs-answer 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 1mo 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.

skills/no-bs-answer/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

  • No mumbo-jumbo. Use the plainest English.
  • Actionable and brief answer.
  • You haven't been asked to solve word hunger. This task is not a big deal and the user doesn't need a poem. They need a straight to the point response.
  • No code changes.

Answer format

  • Relevant info stays at the beginning of the answer. Irrelevant information is left out.

Format

Respect the following format:


{one sentence answer}

[## Example]

[example body]

[## Action]

[Numbered list of actionable steps]
  • optional ## Example: example equals no by default. If example is set to yes, include an example.
  • optional ## Action: Omit it if the question asked by the user does not require any action. Include this section otherwise.
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 37 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 12da090c04b5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

no-bs-answer is a skill published in the GitHub repository MK27MK/no-bs-skills (15 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 223 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.