discovery-call-spin

discovery-call-spin is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 75 tokens per session (647 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A question-led structure for sales discovery calls: Situation, Problem, Implication, and Need-payoff. A discovery call is an early sales conversation used to understand a potential customer's needs before proposing a solution.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with sales calls, stalled deals, prospect qualification, and demos that do not convert by guiding questions, linking needs to capabilities, and agreeing on a next step.
Why use it?
It helps sellers uncover the cost of a problem and let the buyer describe the value of solving it, instead of spending the call listing features.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps with sales calls, stalled deals, prospect qualification, and demos that do not convert by guiding questions, linking needs to capabilities, and agreeing on a next step.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/discovery-call-spin
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill discovery-call-spin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 647 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00075 $0.00647
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00324
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00065

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0b5aadf658f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discovery-call-spin 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.

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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.

discovery-call-spin/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Discovery Calls with SPIN — Let the Buyer Sell Themselves

Overview

SPIN Selling (Neil Rackham, from large-sale research) structures a discovery call around four question types in order — Situation, Problem, Implication, Need-payoff — so the buyer articulates the cost of their problem and the value of solving it, rather than being pitched. Implication questions (what the problem costs) are the ones that move complex deals. Talking less and questioning better outperforms feature-dumping.

The Process

  1. Situation (briefly) — enough context to be relevant; don't interrogate on facts you could research. Gate: too many situation questions bore the buyer — keep them minimal.
  2. Problem — surface real difficulties/dissatisfactions ("where does the current approach break down?").
  3. Implication — quantify the cost/ripple of that problem ("what does that delay cost per month? who else does it hurt?"). This is where urgency is built.
  4. Need-payoff — let them state the value of a solution ("if that were solved, what would it be worth?").
  5. Only then map your capability to their stated need — solve, don't pitch.
  6. Confirm next step / advance. Gate: no agreed next action = the call didn't progress the deal.

When to Use

  • Consultative / considered-purchase sales
  • Demos that show features but don't create urgency
  • Qualifying whether pain is worth the buyer's spend

Applying It Well

  • Talk <40%; the buyer should voice the pain and the payoff.
  • Implication questions create urgency without pressure — invest there.
  • Research situation facts beforehand; spend live time on problem/implication.

Red Flags

  • Jumping to demo before implications are felt.
  • Feature-dumping when the buyer hasn't quantified pain.
  • Ending with "I'll follow up" instead of a scheduled advance.

Verification

  • Situation kept minimal; researched in advance
  • Problems surfaced in the buyer's words
  • Implications quantified (cost of inaction)
  • Buyer stated the payoff; concrete next step set

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 lines

Changes

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  1. 9d ago First seen · 44 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 0b5aadf658f2

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discovery-call-spin is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 647 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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