influence-principle-selector

influence-principle-selector is a skill for Claude Code from bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills. It costs 220 tokens per session (4,989 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-SA-4.0.

A guide for choosing one of Cialdini's six influence principles for a persuasion situation. These principles describe common ways messages can affect decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when selecting a persuasion tactic for marketing, sales, or communication.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork with a more deliberate choice of persuasion approach.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the influence-psychology-of-persuasion plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when selecting a persuasion tactic for marketing, sales, or communication.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills/influence-principle-selector
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 bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills --skill influence-principle-selector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install influence-psychology-of-persuasion, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 220 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,989 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 unknown 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 $0.00220 $0.04989
Opus 5 $0.00110 $0.02495
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00998
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00499

Measured 9d ago against content hash 68e5bb242466, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

influence-principle-selector 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.

books/influence-psychology-of-persuasion/skills/influence-principle-selector/SKILL.md · 391 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 391 lines · 220 tokens per session scan A 68e5bb242466

Subscribe to this mod's changes

influence-principle-selector is a skill published in the GitHub repository bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills (35 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0. It adds 220 tokens to every session and 4,989 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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