s4h-emotional-resistance-diagnosis

s4h-emotional-resistance-diagnosis is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,283 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for identifying the underlying reason people resist a proposal, decision, or change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine what people say and do when they are not engaging, cooperating, or accepting a change.
Why use it?
Pushback can come from emotional, intellectual, or other sources, and the wrong response can make it worse.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the skills-for-humanity plugin — 197 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine what people say and do when they are not engaging, cooperating, or accepting a change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-emotional-resistance-diagnosis
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 human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-emotional-resistance-diagnosis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-for-humanity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,283 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 $0.00074 $0.01283
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00642
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00128

Measured 9d ago against content hash 44abeeef1c72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s4h-emotional-resistance-diagnosis 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 9d 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/s4h-emotional-resistance-diagnosis/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Emotional Resistance Diagnosis

Resistance is not a problem to overcome — it is a signal to decode. People resist for different reasons, and applying the wrong response to the wrong type makes it worse. Presenting more data to someone who is emotionally resistant does nothing. Acknowledging feelings with someone who has an intellectual objection is patronising. This skill identifies the source before prescribing the response.


Your Process

Step 1: Describe the Resistance Who is resisting, what are they saying explicitly, and how are they behaving? Get behaviorally specific — passive non-compliance, vocal objection, questions designed to slow things down, and political manoeuvring are different signals pointing to different sources.

Framing check: Confirm the specific resistance situation before continuing. State who is resisting, what they appear to be resisting, and in what context, in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of who is resisting, what they're resisting, and in what context]. Is that right?"
  • Header: "Framing"
  • Options:
    • Yes — proceed — framing is correct
    • Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
    • Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding

Step 2: Classify Each Instance Assign each type of resistance to one or more of these categories:

  • Intellectual — they disagree with the reasoning, evidence, or conclusion. They think you're wrong.
  • Emotional — they feel something important to them is at risk. They may not be able to articulate what, but something feels threatening.
  • Political — a competing interest is served by the current state. Changing things costs them something real.
  • Practical — they don't believe the plan can actually work. They've seen similar things tried and fail.

Step 3: Source of Each Type Dig to the specific source. Intellectual: which claim do they reject, and why? Emotional: what are they afraid of losing — status, security, relationships, credit? Political: whose interests benefit from the status quo, and how do they intersect with this person? Practical: what specifically do they believe will fail, and what informs that belief?

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 9d ago First seen · 120 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 44abeeef1c72

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s4h-emotional-resistance-diagnosis is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,283 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 2026-09-03.

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