one-hard-truth
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.
Profile →npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill one-hard-truth --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# One Hard Truth There's usually one thing you already sense but keep steering around — about the relationship, the job, the habit, the plan. Everyone around you is too polite to say it, and you're too close to face it. This says the one hard truth plainly and kindly: not to hurt you, but because naming it is what unlocks the situation. Kind and honest aren't opposites — cruelty and cowardice are the opposites; this is the third thing. ## What This Skill Produces - **The one hard truth** — the single honest thing you're avoiding, stated plainly (not five criticisms — the one that matters) - **Said with care** — direct but kind, aimed at helping, not wounding - **Why it's hard to face** — what makes it uncomfortable (it costs something, it means change, it dents the story you tell yourself) - **What facing it opens up** — the thing that becomes possible once it's named and accepted - **A first move** — one small step that facing the truth makes available ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **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
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: One Truth, Kindly, With A Door
- Output Format
- The situation: [what you want honesty on]
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
- Example Trigger Phrases
What does the one-hard-truth skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill one-hard-truth --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,277 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.