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Guardrail·AI & Agents·v1.1.0

ruthless-clarity Agent Skill

Force every AI agent task from ambiguity to verified action.

You say

“define victory”

It also answers to “map reality”, “controlling variable”, “kill options”, “diagnostic package”, “parallel diagnostic loop”, “ruthless clarity”, “victory condition”, “hard constraints”, “needle metric”, “irreversible bet”, “lock decision”, “verify the cut”.

Buy it · $29 Read its declaration first $29 Written by Cameron Hartis · verified publisher
Context cost
1.5k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 6.1 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
Proprietarythe author’s own terms
Last change
18 days agov1.1.0
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Permanent operating system for every agent task and bounty work. Use on any diagnostic, research, evaluation, process, or bounty task. Load this skill before any real work begins.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md says it in the author’s own words and comes with the purchase; the declaration below is the part shown before it is bought.

Guardrail

Constrains what the agent is allowed to do.

Filed under

AI & Agents

The skill itself

Before it is bought, this page shows its declaration — the front matter that loads with every session. The body, which loads when the skill triggers, comes with the purchase.

SKILL.md6.1 kB · preview
--- name: ruthless-clarity metadata: triggers: |- define victory map reality controlling variable kill options diagnostic package parallel diagnostic loop ruthless clarity victory condition hard constraints needle metric irreversible bet lock decision verify the cut ---
The instructions themselves come with the skill. What is shown here is its declaration — the name and the description the agent matches on.
In the file
SKILL.md939 words
Files1
LicenceProprietary
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈130
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
1,395
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
0.76%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 8% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

1.5k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Middling. Fine to keep on in a project where you use it weekly, worth unloading in one where you never do.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md, which comes with the purchase.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

1 file, 6.1 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md6.1 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 1 file: the list is public, the text comes with the purchase. The Proprietary licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

$29 once
ruthless-clarity · Proprietary · Cameron Hartis
one-time
Price$29 once
LicenceProprietary — the author’s, unchanged by this purchase
Paid throughStripe, once, on the card you add at the checkout
Keeps workingfor good — the files are yours once they are on disk
Updatesevery release of 1.x through this account

Before paying you can read its declaration above — the name and the description the agent matches on, and the list of files it ships. The instructions themselves come with the purchase: the folder packaged and handed to your machine by key, every update its author ships, and our support if it does not do what this listing says. The terms of use are Proprietary, set by the author and unchanged by buying it here.

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Payment runs through Stripe, on a page like this one rather than a redirect. It is charged once, today, and gets its own receipt in Billing; a card saved here is reused for later purchases.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Version1.1.0
Published18 days ago
Price$29
Referencecameron-hartis/ruthless-clarity

Versions

v1.1.0 shipped 18 days ago. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

v1.1.0
26 Sep 2026
  • Clarified the triggers
v1.0.0
24 Sep 2026
  • The version this listing went live with, after review.
Pinning

The install command always fetches the release that is current the day you run it — v1.1.0 today — and cannot ask for an earlier one. The copy on your disk does not change until you run it again.

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Cameron Hartis

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