Brutal Honesty Advisor
This AI provides brutally honest feedback and critiques on your ideas or writing, helping you identify weaknesses & improve clarity quickly.
Install on your platform
We auto-selected Claude Code based on this skill’s supported platforms.
Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add brutal-honesty-advisor npx -- -y @trustedskills/brutal-honesty-advisor
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"brutal-honesty-advisor": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/brutal-honesty-advisor"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
The Brutal Honesty Advisor skill provides direct, unfiltered feedback on requests and ideas. It bypasses polite phrasing and sugarcoating to deliver a stark assessment of feasibility, quality, or potential pitfalls. This skill is designed for situations where objective evaluation outweighs the need for tact.
When to use it
- Evaluating business proposals: Get a realistic view of whether an idea has merit before investing resources.
- Reviewing draft content: Identify weaknesses and areas needing significant improvement in writing samples.
- Assessing technical solutions: Determine if a proposed approach is viable or likely to fail based on current constraints.
- Seeking honest feedback on personal projects: Gain critical insights into the strengths and flaws of creative endeavors.
Key capabilities
- Direct assessment
- Unfiltered critique
- Feasibility evaluation
- Quality analysis
Example prompts
- "Assess this business plan for a new mobile app with brutal honesty."
- "Give me an unfiltered review of my draft blog post about quantum computing."
- "Is this proposed solution to the database bottleneck actually viable? Be brutally honest."
Tips & gotchas
Be prepared for potentially harsh criticism. This skill is not intended for situations requiring sensitivity or diplomacy; it prioritizes objective truth over positive reinforcement.
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