framing-effect

framing-effect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 104 tokens per session (1,727 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to framing: the way identical facts are described can change how people judge a choice. It covers gain-versus-loss wording, labels, and goal-focused messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review persuasive messages, check one-sided statistics, compare business options, or test whether a decision changes when the wording is reversed.
Why use it?
It helps reveal when a decision or statistic seems better or worse mainly because of the language used to present it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review persuasive messages, check one-sided statistics, compare business options, or test whether a decision changes when the wording is reversed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/framing-effect
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 deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill framing-effect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,727 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
  • 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 $0.00104 $0.01727
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00864
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00173

Measured 8d ago against content hash 99da998cd24d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

framing-effect 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 8d 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.

framing-effect/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Framing Effect

Overview

The framing effect: logically equivalent descriptions of the same decision produce different choices depending on whether outcomes are cast as gains or losses. Frame determines whether the brain enters gain-mode or loss-mode; the choice follows from the mode.

Three types: risky-choice (gain vs. loss on probabilities), attribute ("95% fat free" vs. "5% fat"), goal ("do X to gain Y" vs. "skip X, lose Y"). Real frames often compound all three.

Corrective: force both framings. If the decision is stable across frames, the frame is not driving it. If it flips, inspect why.

Composes with loss-aversion-prospect-theory, anchoring, pricing-strategy, signaling-games, critical-thinking.

When to Use

  • Decision presented with strong gain-only or loss-only language
  • Statistic shown in one form only (survival rate without mortality, or vice versa)
  • Evaluating persuasive communication: ad, political message, medical recommendation, pitch
  • Team moving toward a decision whose framing was not chosen neutrally
  • You suspect manipulation by frame choice
  • Framing a market or capex bet as "visionary investment" vs "bubble/overbuild" (e.g. AI capex, AI valuations, or AI-adoption spend cast as gain vs loss on identical facts)

Not when: the alternative frame is genuinely misleading (not logically equivalent); analysis cost exceeds decision stakes.

Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

  • Engine mode: user has a concrete framed decision → 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: before accepting a framed decision, restate it in the opposite frame — do you choose differently?
  2. Check fit: if the alternative frame is not equivalent, single-frame may be appropriate.
  3. Elicit their real case: what's being decided? What gain/loss/do/don't language is in use?

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Run the audit one step at a time with their input.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Close by naming what the frame was doing and what the frame-independent choice is.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 8d ago First seen · 121 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 99da998cd24d

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framing-effect is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 1,727 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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