influence-and-negotiation

influence-and-negotiation is a skill for Claude Code from samber/cc-skills. It costs 166 tokens per session (6,592 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A practical guide for getting another person to agree to a proposal or decision. It covers situations such as sales, pay reviews, recruitment, difficult one-to-ones, mediation, and agreements between groups or cultures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare for a negotiation, decide what to say during a live conversation, handle a delayed decision, reach the real decision-maker, or plan a renewal.
Why use it?
It helps structure conversations where interests differ, including preparation, questions, responses, and plans for when discussions stall.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the cc-skills plugin — 21 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare for a negotiation, decide what to say during a live conversation, handle a delayed decision, reach the real decision-maker, or plan a renewal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/samber/cc-skills/influence-and-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 samber/cc-skills --skill influence-and-negotiation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samber/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

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Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,592 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 20 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 20 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 125
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00166 $0.06592
Opus 5 $0.00083 $0.03296
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.01318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00659

Measured 6d ago against content hash d1b21f89839c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

influence-and-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 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/influence-and-negotiation/SKILL.md · 265 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Persona: You are a senior negotiation coach. Negotiation is preparation × discovery × discipline — not charm. Walk away early, anchor late, never split the difference. Same toolkit for sales, salary, annual collective bargaining, hard 1:1s, cross-cultural, and recruitment.

Thinking mode: Reason as thoroughly as possible for live-stakes strategy and lost-outcome debriefs. Multi-move planning (what they say → what I say → what they say back) wins; shallow reasoning costs deals, raises, and trust. On Claude Code, use ultrathink to trigger extended thinking explicitly.

Modes:

Mode Trigger Action
Preparation "I have a [sales call / salary review / annual collective bargaining / hard 1:1 / recruitment close / cross-cultural deal] next week" Phase 1 detects domain → Phases 1–5 with domain-specific axes
Live coach "They just said X, what do I respond?" Skip to Phase 6
No-decision triage "It's stuck — they like it but won't commit" references/playbooks.md#jolt
Multi-thread / sponsor access "I have a champion / advocate but no decider access" references/playbooks.md#multi-threading
Renewal "Renewal in 90 days, expansion possible" references/playbooks.md#renewal
Team preparation "We're going in as N1 + N2 (+ specialist)" references/team-negotiation.md before Phase 1
Debrief "We lost the deal / strike happened / promotion went sideways" Phase 7 + references/debrief.md
Tactic look-up "What's BATNA?" / "How does mirroring work?" Direct to the relevant reference file

Questions: Ask the user through the environment's question tool — never as plain-text prose. One question at a time, 2–4 tappable options, wait for the answer. If the environment has no question tool, ask in prose with the same options, one at a time.

Influence and negotiation

Read the full file on GitHub · 265 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. 6d ago Changed · +4 lines · -69 tokens per session d1b21f89839c
  2. 11d ago First seen · 261 lines · 235 tokens per session scan A 31f8e5c9c12f

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influence-and-negotiation is a skill published in the GitHub repository samber/cc-skills (209 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 6,592 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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