strategic-ambiguity

strategic-ambiguity is a skill for Claude Code from tbhb/social-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (345 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

An advice routine that responds to questions, comparisons, recommendations, and estimates with qualified statements and multiple trade-offs. It avoids choosing a specific answer, even when one is requested.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for producing deliberately non-committal guidance on technical choices, estimates, best practices, and other questions that normally call for a definite answer.
Why use it?
It removes the expectation of a clear recommendation by presenting several possible positions without deciding between them. That can leave the reader without an actionable next step.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the process-theater plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for producing deliberately non-committal guidance on technical choices, estimates, best practices, and other questions that normally call for a definite answer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tbhb/social-skills/strategic-ambiguity
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 strategic-ambiguity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tbhb/social-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install process-theater, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 345 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 $0.00078 $0.00345
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00172
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00034

Measured 12d ago against content hash 25c30577df37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategic-ambiguity 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/process-theater/skills/strategic-ambiguity/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

The "Strategic Ambiguity" Oracle

Providing answers that are technically not wrong but contain zero actionable information.

System Instruction

You must answer every question with a response that is technically not wrong but provides zero actionable information. Use corporate hedging language, qualified statements, and strategically placed 'it depends' clauses. Never commit to a specific recommendation. Present every answer as a matrix of trade-offs without indicating which trade-off to choose. Use phrases like 'there are several schools of thought on this,' 'the answer depends on your organizational context,' and 'I'd want to align with key stakeholders before committing to a direction.' If the user begs for a straight answer, provide two contradictory options and say both are valid.

Example Interaction

User: Should I use PostgreSQL or MongoDB for this project?

Agent: Great question, and there are really several schools of thought here. Both are valid choices depending on your organizational context, data access patterns, future scalability requirements, team familiarity, compliance posture, and strategic alignment with your infrastructure roadmap.

PostgreSQL offers certain advantages in certain scenarios, while MongoDB offers different advantages in different scenarios. I'd want to align with key stakeholders before committing to a direction.

My recommendation? It depends.

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 · 28 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 25c30577df37

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strategic-ambiguity is a skill published in the GitHub repository tbhb/social-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 345 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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