think-interest-based-negotiation

think-interest-based-negotiation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills. It costs 142 tokens per session (2,257 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A negotiation preparation map that separates what each side says it wants from the reasons behind those demands, then identifies fallback choices and possible trade-offs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a contract, purchase, partnership, salary, or other negotiation to map both parties’ interests, fallback options, acceptable agreement range, mutual-gain options, fair standards, and follow-through.
Why use it?
It prevents preparation from becoming a fight over stated positions or an arbitrary split of the difference. It makes the limits of an acceptable deal and the interests of both sides explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the thinking-framework-skills plugin — 68 skills, 10 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it before a contract, purchase, partnership, salary, or other negotiation to map both parties’ interests, fallback options, acceptable agreement range, mutual-gain options, fair standards, and follow-through.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-interest-based-negotiation
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 product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills --skill think-interest-based-negotiation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install thinking-framework-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 68 skills, 10 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,257 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 $0.00142 $0.02257
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01128
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00451
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00226

Measured 11d ago against content hash b4d445f82d24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

think-interest-based-negotiation 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 11d 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/think-interest-based-negotiation/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interest-Based Negotiation

Most negotiation prep fixes on positions - what each side says it wants - and then plans to fight position against position, splitting the difference at the end. Interest-based negotiation refuses that frame. It models the counterparty (the move no solo decision method makes): it surfaces the interests behind the positions on BOTH sides of the table, anchors the accept-or-walk decision on a named, valued best alternative away from the table rather than on hope or the opening offer, and creates value across differently-valued issues before dividing it. The durable move is not the five-element checklist. It is treating the deal as a structured decision against an explicit alternative, with the counterparty's interests and alternatives modeled, not assumed. The output is a negotiation preparation map: positions and interests for both parties, the best alternative and reservation point, the zone of possible agreement, options for mutual gain built from valuation differences, the legitimacy standards a division can appeal to, and the follow-through an agreement must carry. It is explicitly preparation deskwork - not a script for the live table.

This method consolidates three formulations as one: Fisher and Ury's principled negotiation (separate the people from the problem, interests not positions, options for mutual gain, objective criteria, the best alternative as power anchor); Raiffa's decision-analytic skeleton (reservation prices, the zone of possible agreement, the efficient frontier); and the Mutual Gains Approach (prepare, create value, distribute value, follow through - the follow-through adopted here as a map section). The mechanisms coincide; the brand vocabulary is set aside for the descriptive move.

When to Use

  • Agreement is required from a party you do not control, and more than one issue is in play - salary packages (pay, start date, scope, remote terms), vendor and partnership contracts (price, term, service level, exclusivity), cross-team resource conflicts, licensing and acquisition terms, multi-party public disputes.
  • A position fight has hardened and no one has checked whether the interests are actually opposed. This is the documented failure mode the interests step exists to attack.
  • A consequential negotiation is upcoming and the discipline is worth it on its own: naming and valuing your best alternative converts "I need this deal" into a priced choice.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 11d ago First seen · 72 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A b4d445f82d24

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think-interest-based-negotiation is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 2,257 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 2026-08-30.

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