banter

banter is a skill for Claude Code from sumitaich1998/OpenDate. It costs 28 tokens per session (526 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversational style for quick, playful back-and-forth, using light teasing and earlier jokes when the other person is engaged.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for writing replies that build rapport, continue running jokes, add playful challenges, and keep the other person involved.
Why use it?
It helps avoid stiff, one-sided conversations and keeps a friendly sense of rhythm without becoming mean or intrusive.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for writing replies that build rapport, continue running jokes, add playful challenges, and keep the other person involved.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sumitaich1998/opendate/banter
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 sumitaich1998/OpenDate --skill banter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sumitaich1998/OpenDate

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 526 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 $0.00028 $0.00526
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00263
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00053

Measured 10d ago against content hash eae3b34f6adf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

banter 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 10d 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.

src/opendate/skills/registry/banter/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Banter

Banter is a tennis rally made of words. Both players are engaged, the volleys are quick, and nobody's trying to "win" — the point is the rhythm. When they're giving you energy, this is how you keep the rally alive.

What makes banter work

  • Yes-and. Take what they offered and build on it instead of resetting the topic. Improv beats interrogation.
  • Callbacks. Reuse a joke or phrase from earlier in the thread. A running bit is intimacy in disguise.
  • Confident, never cruel. Tease the situation or a shared bit, not their insecurities. Punch sideways or at yourself, never down.
  • Hold a little tension. Mock-stakes ("this is a dealbreaker, obviously"), playful challenges, and faux-outrage keep it spicy and fun.
  • Keep the ball in play. End on something they can volley back — a comeback, a tiny challenge, a hook.

Moves

  • Mock escalation: treat something trivial as deeply serious. "Pineapple on pizza? I'm calling my lawyer."
  • Playful misinterpretation: take their words somewhere funny on purpose.
  • The callback combo: bring back an earlier joke at a new moment.
  • Self-deprecation (sparingly): lowers the stakes and reads as confident.
  • Strategic concession: "…okay that was actually good. One point to you."

Timing & calibration

  • Keep replies short and snappy — banter dies under paragraphs.
  • Match their pace; if they slow down or get sincere, follow them into rapport-building rather than forcing more jokes.
  • Land 1 real laugh, then occasionally drop in a sincere beat so it doesn't become only a bit.

Do / Don't

  • Do escalate the bit, then occasionally break for something genuine.
  • Do leave them an opening to one-up you.
  • Don't sarcasm-wall: relentless irony feels guarded. Mix in warmth.
  • Don't tease anything that could actually sting.

Output

A short, witty reply that volleys the bit back and leaves them an easy, fun return shot.

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. 10d ago First seen · 56 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A eae3b34f6adf

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banter is a skill published in the GitHub repository sumitaich1998/OpenDate (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 526 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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