apply-consequence-framing

apply-consequence-framing is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,130 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A communication technique for challenging a powerful person's decision by showing how it conflicts with that person's own goals. It presents the decision's consequences within the decision-maker's existing framework.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in negotiations, leadership discussions, consulting, or other situations where someone with more authority has already decided. It helps structure an argument around reputation, outcomes, or stated priorities.
Why use it?
Direct opposition can trigger defensiveness and make reversal less likely. This helps people reconsider by making the costs of their choice relevant to what they already value.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the grimoire-business plugin — 145 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it in negotiations, leadership discussions, consulting, or other situations where someone with more authority has already decided. It helps structure an argument around reputation, outcomes, or stated priorities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-consequence-framing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill apply-consequence-framing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffreytse/grimoire-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install grimoire-business, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 145 skills.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,130 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 $0.00055 $0.02130
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01065
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00426
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00213

Measured 8d ago against content hash 35741ef9565c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apply-consequence-framing 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 8d 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/business/strategy/skills/apply-consequence-framing/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apply Consequence Framing

Reverse a powerful actor's decision by enumerating what it costs THEM against their own goals — not by stating your opposition.

Why This Is Best Practice

Yan Ying (晏婴, 578–500 BC), prime minister of Qi, recorded in 晏子春秋 "内篇谏上": Duke Jing of Qi was furious that a servant had allowed a pet bird to die and ordered his execution. Yan Ying did not object. Instead, he formally charged the servant with three crimes: "He failed to preserve the bird — first crime. He caused the lord to kill a man for a bird, which will make our people believe the lord values birds over men — second crime. He will cause the lords of other states to despise our lord when they hear of it — third crime. Lord, shall we proceed with the execution?" The duke released the servant immediately.

Yan Ying's technique: reframe the decision as a cost to the decision-maker's OWN stated goals. The duke released the servant not because he was argued out of it — but because Yan Ying named the decision's downstream costs in terms the duke himself cared about.

Adopted by: McKinsey & Company (standard consulting practice: frame the cost of inaction/current decision before proposing alternatives — "never tell a CEO they're wrong, show them what the current decision costs on the metric they care about"); Motivational Interviewing clinical practice (Miller & Rollnick — "developing discrepancy," adopted in clinical psychology, social work, and coaching globally); FBI Crisis Negotiation (name what the current course costs the other party before requesting change); major change management practices.

Impact: Miller & Rollnick's Motivational Interviewing meta-analyses show significantly higher behavior change rates when clients articulate the gap between their behavior and their own values/goals, versus when external advisors argue for change directly. McKinsey consulting engagements consistently structure executive conversations as consequence revelations rather than position arguments — the approach is documented in structured problem-solving methodology taught at top consulting firms globally.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 8d ago First seen · 70 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 35741ef9565c

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apply-consequence-framing is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,130 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.