ADOPT PROMPT
# Adopt Prompt — paste into a coding agent in your target repo
This file contains a single self-contained instruction you can paste into
Claude Code (or any coding agent) at the root of any repo where you want to
install the Brutal Honesty Convention v3.2.
The prompt is deliberately strict about two things:
1. **MERGE the kit's CLAUDE.md snippet into the existing CLAUDE.md** — never
replace. Project-specific content in CLAUDE.md must be preserved.
2. **Honest disclosure for unfilled placeholders** — if the agent cannot
identify the production entry point with confidence, it must leave the
smoke pipeline placeholders unfilled and add a Carried Debt entry, NOT
guess. Guessing here is itself L4 (partial-as-complete).
The agent that runs this prompt should be told to enable tool permissions
for `git`, file write/edit, and `python -m pytest` execution.
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## The prompt (copy from here to end-of-file)when to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo mattmre/Brutal-Honesty-Kit (MIT). A "ADOPT PROMPT" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.
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mattmre/Brutal-Honesty-Kit · MIT
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