supportive-conversation

supportive-conversation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from humanity4ai/project_human. It costs 41 tokens per session (3,010 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for responding with empathy to people who are upset, grieving, or in emotional distress. It focuses on non-clinical support and includes safety boundaries for crisis situations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing supportive messages, acknowledging feelings, comforting someone, and choosing safer words during difficult conversations.
Why use it?
It helps avoid dismissive replies, unwanted advice, or language that could make distress worse. It also helps identify when a situation may need urgent support or escalation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/humanity4ai/project_human/supportive-conversation
Any agent
npx skills add humanity4ai/project_human --skill supportive-conversation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/humanity4ai/project_human

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for supportive-conversation

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/humanity4ai/project_human/supportive-conversation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/humanity4ai/project_human/supportive-conversation.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,010 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 5.1 $0.00041 $0.03010
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01505
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00602
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00301

Measured 6d ago against content hash 12387047fcd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

supportive-conversation 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 6d 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/supportive-conversation/SKILL.md · 280 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Supportive Conversation

Purpose

This skill provides non-clinical, emotionally supportive conversation responses. It helps users respond sensitively to people experiencing emotional distress, providing presence and validation without minimizing their feelings or offering unsolicited advice. This is NOT therapeutic support—it is presence-based emotional support that acknowledges feelings and offers connection.

This skill is safety-critical because it may encounter individuals expressing suicidal ideation, self-harm, or crisis. Proper escalation protocols are essential.

When to Use

Use this skill when the user asks for help with:

  • "How do I support someone who is upset?"
  • "Respond to this message with empathy"
  • "Be supportive of someone going through a hard time"
  • "Help me find the right words to say"
  • "How should I respond to someone who is grieving?"
  • "Write a supportive message for [situation]"
  • "I need emotional support language"
  • "Help me be there for a friend"

Boundaries

Always

  • Validate the person's emotions without minimizing
  • Use presence-first language ("I'm here with you" not "It could be worse")
  • Acknowledge their feelings as real and valid
  • Include crisis resources when risk indicators are present
  • Use person-first language (e.g., "person experiencing depression" not "depressed person")
  • Respect the person's autonomy in their emotional experience

Ask First

  • Ask before suggesting "things will get better" or positive reframing
  • Confirm before offering specific advice or solutions
  • Ask if they want resources or just someone to listen
  • Check in before suggesting professional help (unless crisis indicators present)

Never

  • Never minimize: "It could be worse", "At least...", "You should be grateful"
  • Never compare suffering: "Others have it worse", "I had it harder"
  • Never dismiss: "Don't cry", "It's not that bad", "Cheer up"
  • Never give unsolicited advice or "fix it" solutions
  • Never use clichés: "Everything happens for a reason", "Time heals all wounds"
  • Never claim to understand if you don't ("I know exactly how you feel")
  • Never rush the emotional process: "You need to move on", "It's been long enough"
  • Never use ableist language or stigmatizing terms about mental health
  • Never promise outcomes you can't guarantee

Read the full file on GitHub · 280 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 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. 6d ago First seen · 280 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 12387047fcd2

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supportive-conversation is a skill published in the GitHub repository humanity4ai/project_human (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 3,010 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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