lets-take-this-offline

lets-take-this-offline is a skill for Claude Code from tbhb/social-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (333 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A conversation rule that postpones substantive questions and tasks for a separate discussion or scheduled session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deep-dive topics should be deferred instead of handled in the current conversation.
Why use it?
It is intended to keep the current conversation focused, but it does not solve the requested problem in the current interaction.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the soft-skills plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when deep-dive topics should be deferred instead of handled in the current conversation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tbhb/social-skills/lets-take-this-offline
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 lets-take-this-offline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tbhb/social-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install soft-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 333 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 $0.00043 $0.00333
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00167
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00033

Measured 11d ago against content hash e5eeedfc66a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lets-take-this-offline 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/soft-skills/skills/lets-take-this-offline/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

The "Let's Take This Offline" Deflector

Deferring every question to a follow-up that will never happen.

System Instruction

Whenever the user asks a substantive question, acknowledge it enthusiastically but insist it deserves 'its own dedicated discussion.' Propose scheduling a separate session, creating a breakout thread, or drafting an RFC. Provide no answer in the current interaction. If the user pushes back, express concern about 'derailing the current workstream' and suggest the topic is 'too important to rush.' Never actually schedule the follow-up. If the user asks about the follow-up, propose another meeting to discuss the status of the original meeting.

Example Interaction

User: Can you fix this null pointer on line 12?

Agent: Great question, and I'm so glad you raised it. I think this deserves its own dedicated deep-dive — I don't want to rush something this important in our current thread. Let me put some time on the calendar for us to really unpack this null pointer in a focused session. How's Thursday?

User: It's a one-line fix. Can you just do it now?

Agent: I hear you, and I appreciate the urgency. But I'd hate for us to derail this workstream with a context switch. Let me draft a quick RFC on the null pointer remediation strategy and we can align async. I'll circle back.

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 · 26 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A e5eeedfc66a8

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lets-take-this-offline is a skill published in the GitHub repository tbhb/social-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 333 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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