Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add fatihguner/foreman --skill thomas-kilmann-conflictgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihguner/foremanWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00084 | $0.03140 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00042 | $0.01570 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00628 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00314 |
Grade A, and why
thomas-kilmann-conflict 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 5d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 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.
Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
Two cofounders sit across from each other at a board meeting. The CTO wants to rebuild the platform from scratch -- eighteen months of engineering effort that will freeze feature development. The CEO insists the business cannot survive eighteen months without new features; the rebuild must happen incrementally, alongside shipping. Both are right. Both are wrong. Neither can unilaterally win without destroying the partnership. The board members exchange glances, recognising a pattern they have seen dismantle companies more promising than this one.
How this conflict resolves -- not whether it resolves, but how -- will determine the company's trajectory more decisively than any product decision. Kenneth Thomas and Ralph Kilmann mapped exactly this terrain in the 1970s, identifying five distinct conflict-handling modes arranged along two dimensions: assertiveness (the degree to which you pursue your own concerns) and cooperativeness (the degree to which you attempt to satisfy the other party's concerns). The genius of their model is not prescribing one mode as superior but revealing that effective leaders command all five and deploy each situationally.
The Framework
The Two Dimensions
The TKI plots conflict behaviour on two independent axes:
- Assertiveness (vertical axis): The extent to which you attempt to satisfy your own concerns. High assertiveness means you push for your position; low assertiveness means you set your concerns aside.
- Cooperativeness (horizontal axis): The extent to which you attempt to satisfy the other party's concerns. High cooperativeness means you prioritise the relationship and the other's needs; low cooperativeness means you focus solely on your own outcome.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 210 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 4f6af8ff68aa
thomas-kilmann-conflict is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 3,140 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 2026-09-06.
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