objection-handling

objection-handling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (636 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for handling sales objections by finding the concern behind the first answer, confirming it, and responding with relevant evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during sales conversations when prospects say a product is too expensive, not timely, or needs more consideration.
Why use it?
It helps prevent deals from stalling because the stated objection hides a different concern about price, risk, timing, or authority.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it during sales conversations when prospects say a product is too expensive, not timely, or needs more consideration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/objection-handling
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 636 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

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 $0.00078 $0.00636
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00318
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00064

Measured 9d ago against content hash b00a41bb96b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

objection-handling 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.

objection-handling/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.

Objection Handling — Surface, Understand, Resolve

Overview

Objections are information, not rejection. Most lost deals die not from the stated objection but from an unsurfaced real one (budget authority, risk, status quo). The discipline: draw objections out early, understand the true concern behind the script, and resolve it with evidence — rather than arguing or discounting reflexively.

The Process

  1. Invite objections early — "what would stop this from being a fit?" Better surfaced in discovery than at close.
  2. Acknowledge, don't argue — lower defenses first; "makes sense" beats a rebuttal.
  3. Find the real objection — the stated one is often a proxy. "Too expensive" may mean unclear ROI, wrong authority, or fear of switching. Gate: resolving the surface objection without the real one = the deal still stalls.
  4. Isolate & confirm — "if we solved that, is there anything else?" so you're not fighting a moving target.
  5. Resolve with evidence — proof, references, a trial, risk-reversal — matched to the real concern (money, risk, timing, authority).
  6. Ask for the advance again. Gate: no re-ask = the handled objection is wasted.

Common objections → real concern

  • "Too expensive" → ROI not proven / budget elsewhere.
  • "Need to think about it" → unspoken risk or missing stakeholder.
  • "Send me info" → soft no / not enough urgency (built in discovery).

When to Use

  • Recurring stalls at the same stage
  • Reflex discounting under pushback
  • Founder-led sales where composure under objection matters

Red Flags

  • Discounting the moment price is questioned.
  • Rebutting instead of understanding.
  • Never re-asking for the close after resolving.

Verification

  • Objections invited before the close
  • Real concern identified behind the stated one
  • Objection isolated/confirmed as the last blocker
  • Resolved with evidence, then advance re-requested

Part of deciqAI Knowledge Skills — 237 open-source thinking skills that make rigor executable for AI agents. The same skills power every deciqAI agent, which runs them autonomously to operate your company. See it run → https://www.deciqai.com/s/objection-handling · Built by deciqAI · github.com/deciqAI · Contributions welcome.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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. 9d ago First seen · 44 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A b00a41bb96b7

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objection-handling is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 636 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 2026-09-03.

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