commitment-consistency

A framework for how small earlier commitments can lead people toward larger commitments, because they want their actions to appear consistent. It also covers how to design such steps ethically and how to resist them when pressured.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan onboarding, sales, hiring, fundraising, and behaviour-change sequences, or to review whether previous commitments are influencing a current decision.
Why use it?
A past agreement, public promise, or small effort can make a later decision feel harder to reject—even when you would not choose it from scratch. This helps separate a sound choice from pressure created by earlier steps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/commitment-consistency
Any agent
npx skills add deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill commitment-consistency
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,800 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 $0.00114 $0.01800
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00900
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00360
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00180

Measured 3d ago against content hash a963dec66aee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commitment-consistency 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 3d 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.

commitment-consistency/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Commitment and Consistency

Overview

Small commitments today dramatically raise the probability of large commitments tomorrow — people have a strong drive to behave consistently with prior choices, especially ones that were public, voluntary, and effortful. Freedman & Fraser (1966) showed a trivial petition tripled compliance with a much larger request two weeks later. Cialdini (1984) systematized it as one of six universal influence levers. Use this skill to design ethical commitment paths (onboarding, sales, hiring, fundraising) or to defend yourself when past commitments are pulling you toward choices you wouldn't otherwise make.

Composes with reciprocity, social-proof, anchoring, door-in-the-face, sunk-cost-fallacy.

When to Use

  • Designing user onboarding, sales sequences, or commitment ladders
  • Hiring or fundraising processes; behavior-change initiatives
  • Evaluating whether past small steps are pulling you toward a current decision you wouldn't otherwise make
  • Defending against high-pressure sales or escalation tactics

Not when: genuinely single-shot with no prior commitment history; framing would pressure someone with already limited choice.

Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

  • Engine mode: user has a concrete design or defense situation → run The Process directly.
  • Coach mode: user is unfamiliar → guide step by step.

In Coach mode, respond one step at a time. Each [WAIT] is a hard stop — output only that step's question, then stop.

  1. One-line: small commitments today substantially raise the probability of large commitments tomorrow — design ethically, and use the fresh-start question when defending.
  2. Check fit. No commitment history = design mode; prior commitments present = defense mode.
  3. Elicit the specific situation. What's the current decision or design? What prior commitments are relevant?

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. One question at a time: what's the commitment ladder? Would I make this choice fresh? What's the ethical balance?

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Close: design or defense action + acknowledgment of the consistency drive + plan for re-evaluation.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 3d ago First seen · 122 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A a963dec66aee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commitment-consistency is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 1,800 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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