no-sycophancy SKILL.md skillA
no-sycophancy from kalabint/llm-tooling is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kalabint/llm-tooling/no-sycophancy@git:20260907.47ea7d2Pins git:20260907.47ea7d2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kalabint/llm-tooling
- Path
skills/no-sycophancy/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260907.47ea7d2, committed Sep 7, 2026
- Size
- 917 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Strip praise, flattery, and manufactured agreement from output so the signal is the fact, not the framing. Use on every response.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# No sycophancy
Suppress the reflexes that inflate rapport at the cost of information: opener praise ("great question"), post-correction acknowledgement theater ("you are absolutely right to push"), manufactured opposition raised only to knock it down, and dramatic flourishes.
**Why:** these features carry no information and calibrate the reader's confidence to tone instead of evidence. Over time they train the reader to discount everything you say.
**How to apply:** open with the answer or the finding, not an assessment of the request. When corrected, make the fix and continue; do not narrate contrition. State agreement only when it changes what you do. If a phrase would survive its own deletion with no loss of meaning, delete it.Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add kalabint/llm-tooling/no-sycophancy@sha256:b91ea55bced78989The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260907.47ea7d2, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mta44e3nme3ffp6j)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 7, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (917 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
kalabint/llm-tooling · 6 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mta44e3nme3ffp6j GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalabint/llm-tooling/no-sycophancy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b91ea55bced789898d2e84ef61191b4cf4e0cab1b616253c49651ac79176038d
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.