why-change

why-change is a command for coding agents from cogni-work/insight-wave. It costs 16 tokens per session (482 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that starts a new Why Change sales pitch or resumes an unfinished one. The pitch explains why a customer or market segment should change.

In plain words
What is it for?
It launches or resumes the Why Change workflow for customer and market-segment proposals.
Why use it?
It provides a single entry point for finding pitch projects and continuing the next unfinished phase.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the cogni-sales plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 4 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/cogni-work/insight-wave/why-change
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cogni-work/insight-wave

Or install cogni-sales, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 4 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 482 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00016 $0.00482
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00241
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00048

Measured today against content hash 1b24193d214e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

why-change 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 today.

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.

cogni-sales/commands/why-change.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

/why-change

Create or resume a Why Change sales pitch. Supports named-customer pitches (deal-specific) and segment pitches (reusable for a market).

Usage

/why-change                        # Start new pitch or discover existing
/why-change --project-path <path>  # Resume specific pitch project

Behavior

New pitch: If no --project-path is provided:

  1. Discover existing pitch projects via pitch-status.sh
  2. If incomplete projects found: ask user to resume or start new
  3. If no projects: invoke the why-change skill to start fresh
  4. The skill will ask whether this is a named-customer or segment pitch

Resume pitch: If --project-path is provided:

  1. Read pitch-log.json for current state and pitch mode
  2. Resume from the last incomplete phase

Examples

/why-change
> "Starting new pitch. Are you creating a pitch for a named customer or a reusable segment pitch?"

/why-change --project-path ./siemens-pitch
> "Resuming Siemens pitch (customer mode) — Phase 2 (Why Now) is next."

/why-change --project-path ./enterprise-manufacturing-dach-segment-pitch
> "Resuming Enterprise Manufacturing DACH segment pitch — Phase 3 (Why You) is next."

Implementation

Invoke the cogni-sales:why-change skill:

Skill tool: cogni-sales:why-change
Args: {provided arguments}

If --project-path is provided, pass it through. Otherwise, first scan for existing projects:

# Find pitch projects in workspace
for dir in */; do
  if [ -f "${dir}.metadata/pitch-log.json" ]; then
    "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/pitch-status.sh" "$dir"
  fi
done

Present discovered projects to user (showing mode: customer or segment), then invoke the skill.

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. today First seen · 67 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 1b24193d214e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

why-change is a command published in the GitHub repository cogni-work/insight-wave (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 482 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-09-04.