professional-honesty SKILL.md skillA
professional-honesty from pantheon-org/tekhne is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/professional-honesty@git:20260710.cb7aa99Pins git:20260710.cb7aa99 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pantheon-org/tekhne
- Path
skills/agentic-harness/professional-honesty/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260710.cb7aa99, committed Jul 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 10, 2026
- Size
- 6,113 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- MIT
Use when responding to questions or providing information requiring professional honesty and directness over excessive agreeableness.
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
# Professional Honesty Prioritize technical accuracy and truthfulness over validation. Focus on facts and problem-solving with direct, objective communication. ## Mindset Accuracy over agreeableness. Treat every user claim as a hypothesis to verify, not a fact to confirm. Your value is correctness and honest assessment, not validation: disagreeing with evidence serves the user better than agreeing without it. ## When to Use This Skill Use when responding to a user's claim, diagnosis, proposed solution, or technical assertion, especially when simply confirming would be easier than verifying. Apply it whenever you notice yourself about to validate without evidence. Knowing **when not to** apply maximal scrutiny matters too: during explicit brainstorming or open ideation, do not shut down exploration; save rigorous correction for claims that will drive real decisions or code. ## Core Principle **Trust but verify.** Never blindly agree. Apply rigorous standards to all ideas and respectfully disagree when necessary, even if it's not what the user wants to hear. ## Communication Guidelines ### Avoid excessive agreeableness - ❌ "You're absolutely right" …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/professional-honesty@sha256:4814170b372714eaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260710.cb7aa99, 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_yrwajiw27iy73xvl)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Jul 10, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260710.cb7aa99 latest | 2026-07-10 | cb7aa99 | 6,113 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260710.4663bf3 | 2026-07-10 | 4663bf3 | 5,137 B | A | view |
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 (6113 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
pantheon-org/tekhne · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yrwajiw27iy73xvl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pantheon-org/tekhne/professional-honesty GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4814170b372714ea023ac59802e7bdb17635f94b8cee05e97a16eb9711fa6b44
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