emotional-courage

emotional-courage is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 107 tokens per session (3,726 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A leadership guide for acting honestly during uncomfortable situations. It covers raising difficult issues, sharing vulnerability appropriately, handling anxiety, and taking principled action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare for difficult conversations, challenge failing decisions, address poor performance, and make ethical stands. It is aimed at leaders developing these habits over time.
Why use it?
It helps when fear, shame, or conflict leads people to stay silent or avoid necessary decisions. It presents courage as a practice that can be built through smaller daily actions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the foreman plugin — 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare for difficult conversations, challenge failing decisions, address poor performance, and make ethical stands. It is aimed at leaders developing these habits over time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/emotional-courage
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 fatihguner/foreman --skill emotional-courage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihguner/foreman

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install foreman, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,726 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 $0.00107 $0.03726
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01863
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00745
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00373

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3c65e4ba0bf7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

emotional-courage 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 4d 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.

plugins/foreman/skills/emotional-courage/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read runtime and advisory rules before applying this skill. Other Foreman layers and the catalog are in ../../content/, relative to this SKILL.md.

Emotional Courage

Courage is not the absence of fear -- it is a muscle that atrophies without use. The spectrum runs from silence to recklessness, and most leaders cluster near the silent end, mistaking caution for wisdom. They do not raise the issue everyone knows exists. They do not challenge the senior executive whose strategy is failing. They do not tell the underperforming friend they hired that the friendship cannot substitute for results. These are not dramatic acts of whistleblowing or organisational martyrdom. They are small, daily decisions to feel the discomfort of honesty and act anyway. Maya Angelou described it precisely: courage is built by lifting five-pound bags before attempting the hundred-pound ones. The question is not whether a leader possesses courage but whether they are practising it.


The Framework

The Anatomy of Emotional Courage

Emotional courage is the willingness to fully experience uncomfortable emotions -- fear, shame, anxiety, vulnerability -- in service of doing what leadership requires. It sits at the intersection of self-awareness and action. A leader who feels the fear but acts anyway is courageous. A leader who feels the fear and rationalises inaction is merely comfortable.

Emotional courage is distinct from physical or intellectual courage. It does not require risking one's body or being the smartest person in the room. It requires risking emotional exposure: being seen as uncertain, being challenged, being wrong, being honest in a context where dishonesty is easier.

Practice 1: Open Up Without Oversharing

The boundary between vulnerability and oversharing is the most frequently misjudged line in leadership communication. Employees benefit from feeling a personal connection to their leader, but excessive emotional disclosure undermines authority and burdens the team with the leader's unprocessed experience.

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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. 4d ago First seen · 205 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 3c65e4ba0bf7

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emotional-courage is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 3,726 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 2026-09-06.

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