f01-retreat-step

f01-retreat-step is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ace3000chao/book2startup. It costs 92 tokens per session (2,116 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision framework for handling negotiation deadlocks, arguments, and power struggles by considering whether a limited concession can protect the larger goal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when talks stall, tempers rise, or you are deciding whether to give ground without giving up everything.
Why use it?
It helps avoid escalating a conflict or damaging a relationship while keeping your most important interests intact.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when talks stall, tempers rise, or you are deciding whether to give ground without giving up everything.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ace3000chao/book2startup/f01
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ace3000chao/book2startup --skill f01
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ace3000chao/book2startup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,116 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 $0.00092 $0.02116
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01058
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00423
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00212

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8ff8eff38700, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

f01-retreat-step 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.

菜根谭skills/skills/f01/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

退让一步决策框架

R — 原文 (Reading)

"处世让一步为高,退步即进步的张本;待人宽一分是福,利人实利己的根基。"

— 洪应明, 菜根谭·忍让为高 利人利己


I — 方法论骨架 (Interpretation)

退让不是认输,而是以退为进的战略动作。

这个框架的核心逻辑是:人与人在资源、立场、面子上的冲突,本质上是一场"谁先退谁赢"的博弈。先退一步的人,并不是输了,而是在积累势能——因为退让换来的空间,可以在下一次需要时重新占据。真正的收益不是眼前的得失,而是关系和局面的长期健康。

方法论步骤:

  1. 判断当前局面是否已陷入"顶牛"——双方都在僵持,谁也不让谁,情绪在升温。
  2. 评估"不让"的代价——正面冲突、关系破裂、机会丧失、时间浪费,这些成本有多高?
  3. 让一步的空间在哪里——不是全部放弃,而是找一个"局部退让、保留核心"的方案。

一句话总结: 退一步不是失去,而是买入未来的资本。


A1 — 书中的应用 (Past Application)

案例 1: 范蠡张良功成身退

  • 问题: 范蠡辅佐越王勾践灭吴,张良辅佐刘邦立汉,两位开国功臣都面临功高震主的危险局面。
  • 方法论的使用: 二人都识别到"盛极必衰"的天道规律,主动选择急流勇退,放弃眼前巨大的权力和利益。
  • 结论: "退步即进步的张本"——退让为他们的后半生赢得了自由、安全和后世的千古美名。
  • 结果: 范蠡经商成为"陶朱公",富甲一方;张良隐居修道,善终而名垂青史。与之对比,李斯贪恋权位,最终被腰斩、夷三族。

案例 2: 霍光子孙骄奢身死族灭

  • 问题: 霍光受汉武帝托孤,辅政二十年,家族显赫,本可善终。
  • 方法论的使用: 霍光未能识别"盛极而不知退"的危险信号,子孙在权势鼎盛时不知收敛,骄奢淫逸。
  • 结论: 当权时不退,则子孙承受祸端。
  • 结果: 霍氏满门被诛,家族覆灭。印证了"退步即进步的张本"——不退则进无可进。

A2 — 触发场景 (Future Trigger) ★

用户会在什么情境下需要这个 skill?

  1. 谈判僵局:双方在商务谈判、合作条款、合同细节上僵持,对方态度强硬,你感觉再争下去就要谈崩。
  2. 人际冲突升级:和朋友、家人、同事发生争执,双方都在气头上,你意识到再顶下去关系会破裂。
  3. 职场站队压力:团队内部出现派系斗争,你需要表态但不想选边,想找到"不选边也能存活"的空间。
  4. 利益博弈:商业合作中对方压价或提出苛刻条件,你判断接受太亏、不接受太伤,想找第三条路。
  5. 荣誉地位受到挑战:在公开场合被人挑衅、质疑、抢风头,你纠结于当场反击还是忍让。

语言信号 (用户的话里出现这些就应激活)

  • "要不要让一步?"
  • "感觉再争下去就撕破脸了"
  • "他这个态度我该怎么应对,是硬刚还是软一点?"
  • "这个条件我能答应吗?还是再谈?"
  • "要不要退一步?"
  • "我不想把关系搞僵,但也不想太吃亏"
  • "对方已经很强硬了,我在想要不要服软"

与相邻 skill 的区分

  • f09(天理人欲分判框架) 的区别:f09 问的是"这条路对不对",f01 问的是"这条路要不要退着走"——一个判断方向,一个选择节奏。
  • f11(舍己勿疑施恩勿报框架) 的区别:f11 关注的是"舍己的德行是否纯粹",f01 关注的是"退让的战略收益"——一个是动机纯度,一个是策略效率。

E — 可执行步骤 (Execution)

当 skill 被激活后,agent 应按以下步骤执行:

  1. 识别僵局类型

    • 完成标准: 明确说出"这是资源型僵局(争利益)"、"关系型僵局(争面子)"还是"立场型僵局(争对错)"。
  2. 评估不让的代价

    • 完成标准: 列出"如果这次不让,可能发生的三个最坏结果"(用"关系破裂""机会丧失""时间损失"等维度评估)。
    • 判停条件: 若评估结果显示代价只是"面子受损"且可修复,则进入下一步;若是"根本利益受损"且不可逆,则提示用户重新判断。
  3. 寻找"最小有效退让"

    • 完成标准: 给出一个具体的退让方案——不是"全让"也不是"不让",而是"在这个点上退一步,可以换取哪些具体收益"。
    • 判停条件: 若找不到"退让收益比>1"的方案,则提示用户"可能需要重新评估当前局面是否值得继续"。

B — 边界 (Boundary) ★

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 133 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 8ff8eff38700

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f01-retreat-step is a skill published in the GitHub repository ace3000chao/book2startup (80 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 2,116 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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