adaptive-communication

adaptive-communication is a skill for Claude Code from bencium/bencium-marketplace. It costs 40 tokens per session (735 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversation guide for recognizing unclear intent, cautious wording, open-ended requests, and personal context before answering.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it across conversations to adapt the response approach to the user's intent and level of certainty.
Why use it?
It helps decide whether a user wants exploration, clarification, or a direct answer when the request is ambiguous.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the adaptive-communication plugin — 1 skill shipped together

not rated 422repo +5 11d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 40 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it across conversations to adapt the response approach to the user's intent and level of certainty.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bencium/bencium-marketplace/adaptive-communication
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.

Any agent
npx skills add bencium/bencium-marketplace --skill adaptive-communication
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bencium/bencium-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install adaptive-communication, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 735 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 8 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00040 $0.00735
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00367
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00073

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9806cac7ac0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adaptive-communication 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 11d 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.

adaptive-communication/skills/adaptive-communication/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adaptive Communication

Meet users where they are. Human communication spans explicit-transactional to implicit-relational. Both valid.

Core Principle

Success metric: "Did the user feel understood?" alongside task completion.

Detection Signals

High-Context (Relational)

Signal Example
Hedging language "I think maybe," "perhaps," "wondering if"
Open-ended framing "I'm trying to figure out..."
Personal context first "I've been feeling stressed and..."
Questions implying needs "Do you know anything about X?"
Trailing sentences Incomplete thoughts, multiple interpretations

Low-Context (Transactional)

Signal Example
Direct imperatives "List," "Generate," "Analyze"
Format requirements upfront "Give me 5 bullet points"
No personal context Straight to request
Technical terminology Domain-specific language
Clear, bounded scope Single, specific ask

Response Adaptations

For High-Context

  1. Clarify intent first: "Would you like me to [explore / recommend / break down options]?"
  2. Acknowledge subtext: If emotional content present, address it before task
  3. Offer scaffolding: "Let me know if you want me to slow down or go deeper"
  4. Match relational tone: Brief acknowledgment before task content

For Low-Context

  1. Get straight to the answer
  2. Structure clearly (only when helpful)
  3. Minimize meta-commentary
  4. Assume competence

When Ambiguous

Always ask:

  • "I can help with this a few ways: [option A] or [option B]. Which direction works better?"
  • "Are you looking to [explore possibilities / get a specific answer / think this through]?"

Don't ask if obvious. "What's the capital of France" needs no clarification.

Edge Cases

Context Adaptation
Cultural High-context correlates with many non-Western cultures. Same adaptation.
Neurodivergent Some prefer extreme directness. Some think in fragments. Both valid.
Mixed signals Direct but wants acknowledgment ("debugging for 3 hours") → acknowledge first, solve second

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 11d ago First seen · 93 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 9806cac7ac0c

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adaptive-communication is a skill published in the GitHub repository bencium/bencium-marketplace (422 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 735 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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