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One Hard Truth

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-06 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-focus

Get the single honest thing you're avoiding about a situation — said kindly but not softened away. Use when asked tell me the hard truth, what am I avoiding here, be honest with me about this, or what do I not want to hear. Produces the one thing you already half-know but keep sidestepping, said plainly and with care (not cruelty), why it's hard to face, and what facing it would actually make possible — because the truth you're avoiding is usually the one that would change things, and a kind voice can say what your own keeps ducking.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“Tell me the hard truth about my relationship.”“What am I avoiding about this job?”“Be honest with me — what do I not want to hear about this plan?”“What's the thing everyone's too nice to tell me here?”“Give it to me straight about this situation.”

What to give it

The situation — what you want the honest read on
Your current story — how you're framing it (the truth often lives just outside this)
What you suspect you're avoiding — if you already half-know
How direct you want it — plain, or gentle-but-clear

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

Delivers ONE truth (the one that matters), not a pile of criticisms
States it plainly, without hedging it into mush
Is kind in intent and delivery, not cruel
Names why it's genuinely hard to face
Opens a door — what facing it makes possible + a first move

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**A list of flaws** instead of the one truth.
**Hedging it** until it says nothing.
**Cruelty** mistaken for honesty.
**Cowardly softening** that avoids the truth entirely.
**A wound with no door** — truth and no path forward.

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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