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Agent skill
Intellectual Honesty In Development
Apply intellectual honesty principles when debugging errors, reporting project status, and providing time estimates.
Install Intellectual Honesty In Development
$ npx skills add kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills --skill intellectual-honesty-in-development -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills intellectual-honesty-in-development --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/'skills_samples/Steve McConnell Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development' .claude/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "intellectual-honesty-in-development" agent skill from https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills/tree/main/skills_samples/Steve%20McConnell%20Code%20Complete%20A%20Practical%20Handbook%20of%20Software%20Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development into .claude/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "intellectual-honesty-in-development", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills/tree/main/skills_samples/Steve%20McConnell%20Code%20Complete%20A%20Practical%20Handbook%20of%20Software%20Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-developmentType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills --skill intellectual-honesty-in-development -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills intellectual-honesty-in-development --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/'skills_samples/Steve McConnell Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development' .agents/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "intellectual-honesty-in-development" agent skill from https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills/tree/main/skills_samples/Steve%20McConnell%20Code%20Complete%20A%20Practical%20Handbook%20of%20Software%20Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development into .agents/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "intellectual-honesty-in-development", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills --skill intellectual-honesty-in-development -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills intellectual-honesty-in-development --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/'skills_samples/Steve McConnell Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development' .cursor/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "intellectual-honesty-in-development" agent skill from https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills/tree/main/skills_samples/Steve%20McConnell%20Code%20Complete%20A%20Practical%20Handbook%20of%20Software%20Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development into .cursor/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "intellectual-honesty-in-development", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills.git --path 'skills_samples/Steve McConnell Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development'--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills --skill intellectual-honesty-in-development -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills intellectual-honesty-in-development --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/'skills_samples/Steve McConnell Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development' .gemini/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "intellectual-honesty-in-development" agent skill from https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills/tree/main/skills_samples/Steve%20McConnell%20Code%20Complete%20A%20Practical%20Handbook%20of%20Software%20Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development into .gemini/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "intellectual-honesty-in-development", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills intellectual-honesty-in-developmentInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills --skill intellectual-honesty-in-development -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/'skills_samples/Steve McConnell Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development' .github/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "intellectual-honesty-in-development" agent skill from https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills/tree/main/skills_samples/Steve%20McConnell%20Code%20Complete%20A%20Practical%20Handbook%20of%20Software%20Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development into .github/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "intellectual-honesty-in-development", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills --skill intellectual-honesty-in-development -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills intellectual-honesty-in-development --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/'skills_samples/Steve McConnell Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development' .opencode/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "intellectual-honesty-in-development" agent skill from https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills/tree/main/skills_samples/Steve%20McConnell%20Code%20Complete%20A%20Practical%20Handbook%20of%20Software%20Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development into .opencode/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "intellectual-honesty-in-development", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
intellectual-honesty-in-development- GitHub stars
- 134
- Token cost
- ~865 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 444 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 21
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- None found
At a glance
Apply intellectual honesty principles when debugging errors, reporting project status, and providing time estimates.
- Works in 3 steps: Never pretend to be an expert - If you… → Understand compiler warnings - Don't… → Understand your program - Never compile…
- Encountering compiler warnings
- SKILL.md covers When to Use This Skill, Scenario 1: Admitting Errors…, Scenario 2: Honest Project… and Scenario 3: Estimation and…, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Intellectual Honesty In Development is an agent skill from kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills. Apply intellectual honesty principles when debugging errors, reporting project status, and providing time estimates. Use this skill when encountering compiler warnings, preparing progress reports, or negotiating project timelines with management.
Its SKILL.md is about 870 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Development. The repository describes itself as: Convert a book into skills directly callable to Claude Code.
When your agent uses it
- Encountering compiler warnings
- Preparing progress reports
- Negotiating project timelines with management
Example prompts
- “/intellectual-honesty-in-development”
Workflow steps
3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Never pretend to be an expert - If you don't know something or made a mistake, admit it readily
- Understand compiler warnings - Don't suppress or ignore warnings; investigate what they point to
- Understand your program - Never compile code just to "see what happens" without understanding the logic
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0d70065. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Intellectual Honesty In Development loads about 865 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 71 tokens; SKILL.md has 444 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 444 words (~865 tokens).
“Estimates are not negotiable. You can refine estimates for accuracy, but negotiating with your boss won't change the time required to develop software.”
- name
- intellectual-honesty-in-development
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills_samples/Steve McConnell Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development of kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0d70065
Compare with similar skills
Intellectual Honesty In Development next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intellectual Honesty In Development this skillkitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills | 134 | — | ~865 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Vercel Composition Patternssupabase/supabase | 111k | 58 repos | ~726 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Finishing a Development Branchobra/superpowers | 297k | 5 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Typescript Advanced Typesrolling-scopes/rsschool-app | 10k | 25 repos | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | |
| PR Babysitteropeninterpreter/openinterpreter | 69k | 3 repos | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Code Review ChecklistshareAI-lab/learn-claude-code | 78k | 5 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Intellectual Honesty In Development
What does Intellectual Honesty In Development do?
Apply intellectual honesty principles when debugging errors, reporting project status, and providing time estimates. Intellectual Honesty In Development is an agent skill from kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills. Apply intellectual honesty principles when debugging errors, reporting project status, and providing time estimates.
When should I use Intellectual Honesty In Development?
Intellectual Honesty In Development fits situations like: encountering compiler warnings; preparing progress reports; negotiating project timelines with management.
How do I install Intellectual Honesty In Development in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills --skill intellectual-honesty-in-development -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills_samples/Steve McConnell Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development in kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills) into .claude/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Intellectual Honesty In Development in Codex?
Run `npx skills add kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills --skill intellectual-honesty-in-development -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills_samples/Steve McConnell Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction_output/intellectual-honesty-in-development in kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills) into .agents/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Intellectual Honesty In Development in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills --skill intellectual-honesty-in-development -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development, .gemini/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development, .github/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development and .opencode/skills/intellectual-honesty-in-development in your project.
What does Intellectual Honesty In Development need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Intellectual Honesty In Development is instructions for the agent only.
Does Intellectual Honesty In Development access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Intellectual Honesty In Development safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Intellectual Honesty In Development use?
No licence was found for Intellectual Honesty In Development or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.
How many tokens does Intellectual Honesty In Development use?
About 865 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Intellectual Honesty In Development?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Intellectual Honesty In Development: Vercel Composition Patterns (supabase/supabase, 111k stars), Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 297k stars), Typescript Advanced Types (rolling-scopes/rsschool-app, 10k stars) and PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Intellectual Honesty In Development?
kitchen-engineer42 (a GitHub user) maintains it in kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills, which has 134 GitHub stars. The repository holds 21 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on February 24, 2026.
Source: kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.