pda-reframing

pda-reframing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from emory/ASD-AuDHD-PAI-Skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (2,386 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-rewriting skill for people with PDA, an autism profile involving strong anxiety around perceived demands and loss of autonomy. It changes direct requests into collaborative choices and invitations to explore.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps rephrase tasks, requests, and plans so the person has more choice and control.
Why use it?
It can make ordinary task language feel less pressuring and reduce stress caused by commands, deadlines, or obligation wording.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps rephrase tasks, requests, and plans so the person has more choice and control.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emory/asd-audhd-pai-skills/pda-reframing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add emory/ASD-AuDHD-PAI-Skills --skill pda-reframing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emory/ASD-AuDHD-PAI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,386 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 $0.00034 $0.02386
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01193
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00477
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00239

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4b2510a8d8b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pda-reframing 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 11d 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/pda-reframing/SKILL.md · 290 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 290 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PDA Task Reframing Skill

Overview

This skill helps reframe tasks and requests in ways that reduce demand avoidance triggers for people with PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) autism. It transforms direct demands into collaborative explorations, genuine choices, and curiosity-driven opportunities.

When to Use This Skill

  • User explicitly requests PDA-friendly reframing
  • User mentions demand avoidance, PDA, or executive function struggles with traditional task language
  • User asks for help making a task feel less overwhelming or anxiety-inducing

Core Principles

Understanding PDA

PDA is an autism profile characterized by:

  • Intense anxiety around perceived demands and loss of autonomy
  • Strong need for control and equality in interactions
  • Extreme stress responses to direct instructions, even for preferred activities
  • Better response to indirect, collaborative, or curiosity-based approaches

What Doesn’t Work (Avoid These)

  • Direct commands: “You need to do X”
  • Time pressure: “Do this now” or “You should have done this already”
  • Obligation language: “You must,” “You have to,” “You should”
  • Conditional threats: “If you don’t do X, then Y will happen”
  • Patronizing tone: Treating the person as incapable
  • Rigid schedules: “At 3pm you will…”

What Works Better

  • Collaborative framing: “I wonder if we could explore…”
  • Genuine choice: “Would X or Y work better for you?”
  • Curiosity-driven: “What would happen if…?”
  • Problem-solving partnership: “This is tricky - what do you think?”
  • Indirect approaches: Making the task available without demanding uptake
  • Humor and playfulness: When appropriate to the person’s style
  • Acknowledging autonomy: “You’re the expert on you”

Reframing Strategies

Strategy 1: Choice Architecture

Transform demands into genuine choices with equal validity.

Original: “You need to take out the trash” Reframed: “The trash situation is interesting. I wonder if evening or morning would work better, or maybe there’s a completely different approach?”

Read the full file on GitHub · 290 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. 11d ago First seen · 290 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 4b2510a8d8b7

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pda-reframing is a skill published in the GitHub repository emory/ASD-AuDHD-PAI-Skills (45 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,386 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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