voss

voss is a skill for Claude Code from mishahanin/heading-os. It costs 141 tokens per session (1,776 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A conversation-preparation tool based on Christopher Voss's FBI negotiation methods, including labels, calibrated questions, and possible conversation scenarios.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan negotiations, deal discussions, partnership talks, and other important conversations with a specific counterpart.
Why use it?
It helps prepare for difficult or high-stakes discussions by making goals, tensions, likely reactions, and response options explicit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps plan negotiations, deal discussions, partnership talks, and other important conversations with a specific counterpart.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mishahanin/heading-os/voss
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mishahanin/heading-os --skill voss
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mishahanin/heading-os

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,776 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 $0.00141 $0.01776
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.00888
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00178

Measured 9d ago against content hash 62313f9a104b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

voss 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.

.claude/skills/voss/SKILL.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Voss Tactical Coaching Engine

Prepare a situation-specific tactical playbook for any important conversation, using Christopher Voss's FBI negotiation methodology.

Variables

counterpart: [Who - name, title, company, role in this conversation]

situation: [What the conversation is about]

goal: [What you want to achieve - primary and secondary outcomes]

tension: [What makes this difficult or high-stakes - optional but valuable]


Instructions

Before building the playbook, read:

  • reference/voss-negotiation.md - Full Voss methodology reference
  • reference/misha-voice.md - Ensure playbook language matches Misha's authentic voice
  • context/people.md - Check if counterpart is listed; load relationship history
  • context/pipeline.md - Check if this relates to an active deal or partnership
  • context/business-info.md - 31C positioning relevant to this conversation

If the counterpart has a CRM file in crm/contacts/, read it for interaction history, communication preferences, and notes.

If a deal-strategy or meeting-prep output exists for this counterpart, read it for additional context.


Phase 1: Intelligence & Profiling

Counterpart profile:

  • Who they are and what drives them
  • Their likely negotiator type: Analyst (data, preparation, silence) / Accommodator (relationship, rapport, chatty) / Assertive (direct, competitive, time-pressured)
  • How to calibrate approach for their type
  • Their probable emotional state coming into this conversation
  • Their constraints - what they might not be able to say or do
  • What "success" looks like from their side

Power dynamics:

  • Who needs whom more in this conversation?
  • Three leverage types available:
    • Positive: what can we offer them?
    • Negative: what happens if they don't engage?
    • Normative: what values, standards, or commitments of theirs align with our position?

Phase 2: Accusation Audit

Generate a comprehensive list of every negative thing the counterpart might think or feel about Misha, 31C, or this situation. Be brutally honest.

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 210 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A 62313f9a104b

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voss is a skill published in the GitHub repository mishahanin/heading-os (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 1,776 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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