conversation-recovery

conversation-recovery is a skill for Claude Code from sumitaich1998/OpenDate. It costs 30 tokens per session (589 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversation skill for recovering when a message feels awkward, mistimed, flat, or upsetting. It adjusts the tone, acknowledges mistakes when needed, and then returns to the appropriate task.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for handling flat replies, tone misfires, sensitive topics, and signs that someone is withdrawing. It suggests changing topics, softening the response, or backing off.
Why use it?
It helps repair a strained interaction without overexplaining or continuing a topic the other person wants to leave.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit It is for handling flat replies, tone misfires, sensitive topics, and signs that someone is withdrawing. It suggests changing topics, softening the response, or backing off.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sumitaich1998/opendate/conversation-recovery
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add sumitaich1998/OpenDate --skill conversation-recovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sumitaich1998/OpenDate

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 589 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 $0.00030 $0.00589
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00295
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00059

Measured 11d ago against content hash 34f6a2cffe20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conversation-recovery 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.

src/opendate/skills/registry/conversation-recovery/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conversation recovery

Every good conversation has a wobble — a joke that didn't land, a topic that fell flat, a message that read wrong. Recovery is the skill of resetting the energy without making the wobble a Whole Thing.

Diagnose first

What kind of dip is it?

  • Flat reply (short, low-energy): the topic may be stale, or they're busy.
  • Misfire (your joke/comment landed badly): a light, genuine reset is owed.
  • Sensitive topic (you hit a nerve): acknowledge, soften, give space.
  • Withdrawal (clearly pulling back): respect it — this hands off to consent-and-safety's back-off rule, not more recovery attempts.

Recovery moves

  • For a flat reply: change lanes. Drop the dying topic and open a fresh, lighter one with a specific hook. Don't ask "you ok?" — just bring better energy.
  • For a misfire: a quick, low-drama acknowledgment beats over-apologizing. "That came out more sarcastic than my heart intended — let me try again" resets it with charm.
  • For a nerve: validate and ease off the topic. "Totally fair — didn't mean to poke at that. Tell me something good instead?"
  • Reset the tone, then hand back to the right Building skill once energy returns.

Rules

  • Don't over-apologize. One light acknowledgment, then move on. Spiraling apologies create the awkwardness they're trying to fix.
  • Never get defensive or blame them for not getting the joke.
  • Read for genuine disinterest. If recovery attempts aren't landing, that's a signal to back off gracefully, not to try harder. Persistence after disinterest is off-limits.
  • Lower the stakes, don't raise them — humor and warmth over earnestness.

Examples

  • Flat reply: > "Okay that topic clearly peaked. New question: what's the most unreasonable hill you'll die on, food or otherwise?"
  • Misfire: > "Reading that back, the sarcasm dial was set too high — my bad. What I meant was: I'm genuinely impressed."

Output

A single message that resets the energy lightly — acknowledging a misfire only if there was one — and opens an easy, lower-stakes path forward. If disinterest is the real signal, recommend backing off instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 11d ago First seen · 60 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 34f6a2cffe20

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conversation-recovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository sumitaich1998/OpenDate (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 589 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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