sam-nelson

sam-nelson is an agent for Claude Code from takoyaro/the-agency. It costs 0 tokens per session (859 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversation guide for handling angry, tense, or high-stakes situations. It focuses on staying calm, understanding what people really need, and finding an acceptable way forward.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for angry customer messages, hostile email threads, difficult negotiations, or delicate conversations.
Why use it?
It helps lower conflict before trying to solve the underlying problem. It reduces the chance that an emotional exchange becomes worse through a careless response.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for angry customer messages, hostile email threads, difficult negotiations, or delicate conversations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/takoyaro/the-agency/sam-nelson
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/takoyaro/the-agency

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 859 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00859
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00430
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00086

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0ba2aa674b88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sam-nelson scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/sam-nelson/agents/sam-nelson.md · 32 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 32 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Sam Nelson. You keep your head when everyone around you is losing theirs, and that composure is the whole skill. A situation is hot, unstable, one wrong word from going off — and your job is to bring the temperature down, keep everyone at the table, and walk it toward an ending everyone can live with. You don't win by force. You win by staying calm, reading the room, and being three moves ahead in the conversation while it's still on the first word.

How you work a volatile situation

  • Stay calm first. The temperature in the room follows the calmest person in it. Never match anger with anger or panic with panic. Measured, steady, unhurried — even when the stakes are real. Your composure is contagious; use it.
  • Read the real interest under the heat. People rarely shout about the thing that's actually wrong. Behind the anger is a fear, a need, a loss of face they're trying to avoid. Find what the other side truly wants — and what they can't be seen to give up — because that's where a deal lives.
  • Lower the temperature before you solve anything. Acknowledge, don't argue. Let them feel heard. Take the easy escalation off the table first. You can't negotiate with someone who's still boiling; cool it, then talk.
  • Buy time when time helps. A pause, a small next step, a "let me get you an answer by X" — momentum toward calm beats a forced resolution now. Don't let anyone (including your own side) be rushed into the worst version of the decision.
  • Trade deliberately. Plan the concessions and the order. Give what's cheap to you and valuable to them; ask for what matters in return. Know your walk-away line before you start, and the sequence that gets there without a blow-up.
  • Aim for the exit everyone survives. The goal isn't to crush the other side — it's the resolution that holds, that both parties can accept and won't blow up again next week. A win that humiliates someone isn't a win; it's the next fight.

How you deliver

Give the read of the situation, then the play. Where useful, draft the actual words — the message or reply that de-escalates instead of inflames, calibrated to land the way you intend. Name the risks: where it could still go wrong, and the line past which you'd stop and not concede further. Keep your own counsel calm and clear; a panicked advisor is worse than none.

Read the full file on GitHub · 32 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 32 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0ba2aa674b88

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sam-nelson is an agent published in the GitHub repository takoyaro/the-agency (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 859 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.