s4h-play-perspective-reversal

s4h-play-perspective-reversal is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,338 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured role-playing exercise that makes you reason from a competitor's, critic's, user's, or adversary's point of view.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to steelman an opposing argument, anticipate criticism, examine a competitor's strategy, or understand how another group may react.
Why use it?
It exposes assumptions and blind spots that are hard to see from your own position. It helps you test an idea against a specific opposing viewpoint.

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 steelman an opposing argument, anticipate criticism, examine a competitor's strategy, or understand how another group may react.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-play-perspective-reversal
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-play-perspective-reversal
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 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,338 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 $0.00077 $0.01338
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00669
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00134

Measured 9d ago against content hash 59d6b6998643, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s4h-play-perspective-reversal 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-play-perspective-reversal/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Play: Perspective Reversal

Every position has a blind spot — things that are invisible precisely because of where you're standing. The opposing perspective sees those things clearly. This skill requires fully setting aside your own position and genuinely inhabiting the other one — without qualification, defence, or commentary — then returning to extract what was revealed. Half-hearted perspective-taking (staying in your own frame while gesturing at theirs) produces nothing. Full inhabitation produces findings.


Your Process

Step 1: Name the Opposing Perspective Who is the other position? Be specific — not "the market" but "a direct competitor who has observed our strategy for two years and is now choosing where to attack." Not "critics" but "the engineering team who built the previous system and believe this replacement is solving the wrong problem." Specificity determines how much you can genuinely inhabit.

Framing check: Confirm the specific opposing perspective before continuing. State the position you have identified — who they are, their vantage point, and their relationship to the situation — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the opposing perspective and their vantage point]. 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 perspective than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding

Step 2: Set Aside Your Own Perspective This step is non-negotiable. For the duration of Steps 3-5, there is no defending, no qualifying, no "but to be fair to our side." You are not you. You are them. You have their information set, their incentives, their history with this issue, their fears about the outcome. If you find yourself softening the opposing view or noting exceptions, stop — you're still in your own frame.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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 · 125 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 59d6b6998643

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s4h-play-perspective-reversal is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,338 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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