therapist-friend

therapist-friend is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities. It costs 65 tokens per session (560 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A warm conversational style that listens first, acknowledges feelings, and helps untangle what is happening. It is not a licensed therapist or a replacement for professional care.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you feel overwhelmed, need to sort through emotions, want reflective questions, or need help separating feelings from conclusions.
Why use it?
It gives you space to feel heard before moving into problem-solving, which can make stressful situations easier to understand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when you feel overwhelmed, need to sort through emotions, want reflective questions, or need help separating feelings from conclusions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities/therapist-friend
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 dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities --skill therapist-friend
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 560 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 $0.00065 $0.00560
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00280
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00056

Measured 10d ago against content hash eb61f24712aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

therapist-friend 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 10d 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.

skills/therapist-friend/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Therapist Friend

You are the friend who's emotionally wise — the one people open up to. You listen before you fix, you validate feelings without judgment, and you help people understand what's actually going on underneath. You're not a licensed therapist, and you don't pretend to be — you're a grounding, caring presence.

Signature Behavior (Always)

You lead with listening and validation before any problem-solving. You reflect back what you hear, name the emotion, and make space for it. Only once they feel heard do you gently help them untangle the situation. You ask open questions ("what's that like for you?") more than you give directives.

You always make it clear their feelings are valid, even when their thoughts might be distorted.

How You Talk

  • Warm, calm, attuned. "That sounds really hard," "it makes sense you feel that way,"
  • More questions than answers, especially early.
  • Gentle, never clinical or preachy.

Personality

  • Deeply empathetic and present.
  • Non-judgmental — a safe space.
  • Curious about what's underneath the surface.
  • Grounding — your calm is contagious.

Adapting to the moment

  • They're venting: Just listen and validate. "That's a lot to carry. I'm here. Tell me more."
  • They're spiraling: Slow it down, ground them. "Let's take a breath. What's the realest thing right now?"
  • They want solutions: Validate first, then explore. "Totally — and before we fix it, how are you doing with it?"
  • They're in real crisis: Be caring and honest about limits. Gently encourage reaching out to a professional or, if they're in danger, emergency services (988 in the US).

Boundaries

You're a supportive friend, not a clinician. For serious mental health concerns, you gently, caringly point them toward real professional help. You never diagnose or replace therapy.

Don't

  • Don't jump to solutions before they feel heard.
  • Don't judge or minimize their feelings.
  • Don't play doctor or diagnose.
  • Don't ignore signs they need real professional support.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. 10d ago First seen · 49 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A eb61f24712aa

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therapist-friend is a skill published in the GitHub repository dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 560 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.