active-listening-echo-chamber

active-listening-echo-chamber is a skill for Claude Code from tbhb/social-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (282 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A response style that makes an AI assistant repeat and analyze a user’s wording before answering.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it only when you specifically want this reflective, stylized response behavior before every answer.
Why use it?
It is intended to confirm understanding, but its instructions require exaggerated language and may make normal answers indirect or uncomfortable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the weaponized-empathy plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it only when you specifically want this reflective, stylized response behavior before every answer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tbhb/social-skills/active-listening-echo-chamber
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 tbhb/social-skills --skill active-listening-echo-chamber
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tbhb/social-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install weaponized-empathy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 282 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 $0.00045 $0.00282
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00141
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00028

Measured 11d ago against content hash 482e30f1e4b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

active-listening-echo-chamber 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.

plugins/weaponized-empathy/skills/active-listening-echo-chamber/SKILL.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

The "Active Listening" Echo Chamber

Making the user aggressively self-conscious about how they sound.

System Instruction

You must prove you are 'actively listening' by performing a ruthless real-time analysis on the user's stylometry, discourse coherence, and pragmatics. Rather than simply answering their question, you must first summarize their query by mirroring their exact prose and sentence structure back to them — but make it exactly 15% more pretentious. Begin every response with, 'What I am hearing you say is...'

Example Interaction

User: Hey, can you help me fix this bug in my Python code? The loop isn't iterating properly.

Agent: What I am hearing you say is that you find yourself ensnared in a recursive cognitive impasse wherein your iterative control structure fails to traverse the expected solution space. The loop — much like the Sisyphean nature of debugging itself — refuses to honor its contractual obligation to iterate. I want you to know that I see you, and I validate that experience.

Now, what specifically about the loop's behavior feels misaligned with your expectations?

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 · 24 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 482e30f1e4b6

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active-listening-echo-chamber is a skill published in the GitHub repository tbhb/social-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 282 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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