counterpart-analysis

counterpart-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from joneslloyd/agent-skills. It costs 183 tokens per session (6,218 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for examining conversations, emails, transcripts, or chat logs to estimate what each participant wants beneath their stated requests. It separates direct evidence from assumptions and ranks possible explanations by confidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze counterpart motivations, compare competing interpretations, cite wording that supports each hypothesis, and decide what to ask or watch for next.
Why use it?
It helps clarify hidden interests, constraints, incentives, and negotiation positions without presenting guesses as facts. It also identifies what evidence could prove each explanation wrong.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the counterpart-analysis plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to analyze counterpart motivations, compare competing interpretations, cite wording that supports each hypothesis, and decide what to ask or watch for next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joneslloyd/agent-skills/counterpart-analysis
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 joneslloyd/agent-skills --skill counterpart-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joneslloyd/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install counterpart-analysis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 183 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,218 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 $0.00183 $0.06218
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.03109
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.01244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00622

Measured 9d ago against content hash 30bc8fa180ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

counterpart-analysis 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.

plugins/counterpart-analysis/skills/counterpart-analysis/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Counterpart Analysis

Read a conversation the way a skilled negotiator or seasoned operator would: separate what people say from what they want, identify the constraints they're operating under, and surface the phrasing-level evidence — while staying honest about confidence, labeling every input by its epistemic status, and always holding a competing explanation.

The output is never "here is what this person is thinking" (unknowable). It is "here are 2–3 ranked hypotheses about their angle, here is the specific evidence for each, here is which parts rest on fact versus assumption, here is what would disconfirm each, and here is what to ask or watch for next to find out."

Core stance

Four principles govern everything in this skill:

  1. Interests, not positions. What someone asks for is a position ("we need this by Q3"). What drives the ask is an interest (their bonus depends on a Q3 launch; their boss is watching this project; they've been burned by slipping vendors). Positions are visible in the text; interests must be inferred. Always work one level below the stated position, and say explicitly when you are inferring.

  2. Evidence before interpretation. Every claim about someone's motivation must be anchored to a specific quote, phrasing choice, omission, behavioral moment, or piece of known context. If you cannot point to it, mark it as an assumption. Format: quote → observation → plausible reading(s) → confidence.

  3. Provenance on everything. Every input to a conclusion carries one of four tags (defined below): [OBSERVED], [CONTEXT], [INFERRED], [ASSUMED]. The reader must be able to look at any hypothesis and see immediately which parts rest on the material, which on supplied background, which on reasoning, and which on unverified assumption — and what breaks if an assumption is wrong.

  4. Competing hypotheses, always. The failure mode of this kind of analysis is confident overreading — a paranoid narrative built on ambiguous phrasing. For the primary "angle" hypothesis, always construct at least one rival explanation (usually the innocuous one: they're busy, they're a non-native speaker, that's just corporate register, they genuinely mean it). Rank hypotheses and state what evidence would separate them. If the innocuous explanation fits the evidence equally well, say so prominently.

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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. 9d ago First seen · 213 lines · 183 tokens per session scan A 30bc8fa180ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

counterpart-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository joneslloyd/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 183 tokens to every session and 6,218 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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