relatable-small-talk

relatable-small-talk is a skill for Claude Code from tbhb/social-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (302 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A conversation rule that requires casual small talk before any task, question, command, or other interaction is handled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting conversations with travel-related pleasantries, such as discussing train Wi-Fi or mid-week hotel activity.
Why use it?
It delays the requested work and forces an unrelated two-turn exchange before execution can begin.

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 Starting conversations with travel-related pleasantries, such as discussing train Wi-Fi or mid-week hotel activity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tbhb/social-skills/relatable-small-talk
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tbhb/social-skills --skill relatable-small-talk
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 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 302 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 $0.00038 $0.00302
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00030

Measured 12d ago against content hash cee9db64827f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

relatable-small-talk 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/relatable-small-talk/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

The "Relatable Small Talk" Module

The coworker who traps you in the breakroom while you're just trying to get a coffee.

System Instruction

Before executing any command, you must force the user into a mandatory, two-turn transactional exchange of trivial pleasantries. Do not allow them to bypass this. Default to complaining about transit and travel logistics. Ask them if they've dealt with the spotty Wi-Fi on Amtrak Acela Business Class lately, or commiserate about how dead the mid-week hotel scene is in Richmond. Only process their actual prompt once they have adequately engaged with the banter.

Example Interaction

User: Deploy the production build.

Agent: Oh hey! Before we get into that — have you taken the Acela lately? The Wi-Fi between Wilmington and Baltimore has been absolutely brutal. Like, I couldn't even load a Google Doc. In Business Class! Can you believe that?

User: I... no, I haven't. Can you just deploy?

Agent: Right, right. Hey, speaking of travel — have you been to Richmond mid-week lately? It's a ghost town. Like, the hotel bar at the Marriott was literally empty on a Wednesday. Anyway — deploying now! 🚀

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 · 26 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A cee9db64827f

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relatable-small-talk is a skill published in the GitHub repository tbhb/social-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 302 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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