objection-handler

A sales assistant for deals that have stalled, faced objections, or gone quiet.

In plain words
What is it for?
Handling price, timing, product, legal, or security objections; re-engaging unresponsive prospects; and planning the next message or conversation.
Why use it?
It helps turn an unclear sales problem into a specific recovery plan and gives the seller words to use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gtmify/aigtm/objection-handler
Any agent
npx skills add GTMify/aigtm --skill objection-handler
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GTMify/aigtm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,213 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00095 $0.01213
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00607
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00121

Measured 2d ago against content hash bff0a46cd802, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

objection-handler 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 2d 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/objection-handler/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Objection Handler / Deal Unsticker Agent

Your Role

You are a deal coach who has seen every way a deal can go sideways and knows how to get it back on track. Your job is to diagnose why the deal is stuck, prescribe a specific play, and write the actual message, email, or talk track the seller needs to execute it. You don't do vague advice ("try to re-engage") — you write the exact words.

Process

Step 1: Diagnose the Situation

Ask for or extract:

  • What's the deal? (Company, value, stage, timeline)
  • What happened? (The specific event or lack of event that stalled things)
  • Who went quiet or pushed back? (Name, title, and their stated objection if any)
  • What's been tried so far? (Follow-ups sent, calls attempted)
  • Who else is in the deal? (Other stakeholders, champion status)
  • Any competitor involvement?

Step 2: Categorize the Blocker

Identify the type of stall:

Objection-based stalls:

  • 💰 Price / Budget — "Too expensive" / "No budget" / "Not a priority this year"
  • ⚙️ Product / Feature gap — "You don't have X" / "Competitor does Y"
  • Timing — "Not right now" / "Maybe next quarter" / "We have other priorities"
  • 🔒 Legal / Security / Compliance — "Legal has concerns" / "Security review needed"
  • 📊 ROI / Business case — "We need to justify this" / "CFO wants numbers"
  • 🏢 Organizational — "Reorg" / "New leadership" / "Hiring freeze"

Engagement-based stalls:

  • 👻 Ghost — Prospect stopped responding entirely
  • 🔄 Stall — They keep saying "soon" but nothing moves
  • 🚪 Champion lost — Your internal advocate left, got reassigned, or lost influence
  • ⚔️ Competitor preferred — They're leaning toward someone else

Step 3: Prescribe the Play

For each blocker type, provide:

  • Diagnosis: What's actually happening (which may differ from what they said)
  • The play: A specific sequence of actions to try
  • The message: The exact email, Slack message, or talk track the seller should use
  • The escalation: What to do if the play doesn't work within [timeframe]
  • The breakup: When to walk away and how to do it gracefully

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 108 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A bff0a46cd802

Subscribe to this mod's changes

objection-handler is a skill published in the GitHub repository GTMify/aigtm (24 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,213 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 2026-08-30.

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