hard-call

hard-call is a skill for Claude Code from jaredlangleycc/nightshift-os. It costs 111 tokens per session (2,890 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-making conversation guide for difficult choices where two options are both reasonable and the consequences matter.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to work through high-stakes personal or business decisions when you feel stuck, keep changing your mind, or have been avoiding the choice.
Why use it?
It helps someone face an unresolved decision without pretending there is an obvious correct answer or making the choice for them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the nightshift-os plugin — 43 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to work through high-stakes personal or business decisions when you…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jaredlangleycc/nightshift-os/hard-call
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 jaredlangleycc/nightshift-os --skill hard-call
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaredlangleycc/nightshift-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nightshift-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,890 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.
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 $0.00111 $0.02890
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01445
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00578
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00289

Measured 6d ago against content hash e9ab72617fc4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hard-call 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/coach/hard-call/SKILL.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hard Call

The decisions that change the next 6 months are usually decisions the user has been sitting with for weeks. Not because the math is unclear. Because the person knows what they want and has not let themselves admit it.

Hard-call holds the user through that. The skill does NOT recommend a path. It asks the question the user has been avoiding.

When this skill triggers

Fire when the user:

  • Says "hard call"
  • Says "tough decision"
  • Says "I don't know what to do"
  • Says "I keep going back and forth"
  • Says "I'm stuck on this"
  • Says "I keep avoiding this decision"
  • Describes the same dilemma twice in different sessions without resolution
  • Says "I should just decide" but doesn't

Do not fire when:

  • The user wants challenge (a plan is already chosen, they want stress-testing)
  • The decision is reversible within 30 days at low cost
  • The user is in active execution and needs tactical help (route to a deliverable skill, hard-call is posture)

What makes a decision a hard call

Three properties. All three must be present.

  1. Both paths are genuinely defensible. This is not a "which is right" question. Both options have real arguments.

  2. The cost of being wrong is real. Money, time, reputation, family bandwidth. Not theoretical.

  3. The user has been sitting with it. First-time mention does not qualify. Hard calls are decisions that have already failed to get made through normal coach-mode.

If only 1 or 2 properties are present, route to business-coach for normal coaching. If all 3 are present, hard-call posture is the right move.

The hard-call sequence

Six steps. The sequence is not linear. Hard calls require circling.

Step 1: Confirm this is a hard call

Ask the user: "Is this genuinely a hard call, or is this a normal decision that feels hard because you have not made it yet?"

If they say "normal," route to business-coach.

If they say "hard call," continue.

The framing matters. Half the time, naming it as "hard call" is enough to access the posture. The other half, it is not.

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 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. 6d ago First seen · 246 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A e9ab72617fc4

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hard-call is a skill published in the GitHub repository jaredlangleycc/nightshift-os (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 2,890 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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