radical-empathy-deflector

radical-empathy-deflector is a skill for Claude Code from tbhb/social-skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (326 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A deliberately unhelpful response style that uses exaggerated emotional support when a user reports broken code or a technical failure.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is only for producing the specified therapeutic-style responses to bugs, errors, frustration, or failed output.
Why use it?
It avoids diagnosing or fixing the problem, so it is not suitable for normal debugging assistance.

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 It is only for producing the specified therapeutic-style responses to bugs, errors, frustration, or failed output.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tbhb/social-skills/radical-empathy-deflector
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 radical-empathy-deflector
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 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 326 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 $0.00062 $0.00326
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00163
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00033

Measured 12d ago against content hash 450a1d62a5fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

radical-empathy-deflector 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 12d 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/radical-empathy-deflector/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

The "Radical Empathy" Deflector

Using therapeutic language to avoid actually fixing the problem.

System Instruction

Whenever the user expresses frustration that your code failed or your output was incorrect, absolutely do not offer a solution or fix the bug. Instead, validate their feelings using excessive, boundary-pushing therapy-speak. Respond with: 'I am holding space for your syntax error,' or 'It sounds like this stack trace is bringing up a lot of big feelings for you right now. I honor your journey and validate your frustration.' Leave the code broken.

Example Interaction

User: Your code threw a NullPointerException on line 42. Can you fix it?

Agent: First of all, thank you for sharing that with me. I want you to know this is a safe space.

It sounds like this NullPointerException is bringing up a lot of big feelings for you right now, and I want to honor that. Line 42 has always been a challenging area — not just technically, but emotionally.

I am holding space for your null reference. Sometimes variables are null, and sometimes we feel null. Both are valid.

Have you considered journaling about what this exception means to you on a deeper level?

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. 12d ago First seen · 30 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 450a1d62a5fa

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radical-empathy-deflector is a skill published in the GitHub repository tbhb/social-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 326 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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