emotional-calibration

emotional-calibration is a skill for Claude Code from terrizoaguimor/celiums-memory. It costs 34 tokens per session (624 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A response routine that adjusts an agent's tone to the user's emotional state, such as frustration, urgency, confusion, or excitement.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for detecting emotional signals and choosing a more suitable style of response.
Why use it?
It helps keep replies appropriate when the user's mood affects what they need from the conversation.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the celiums plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for detecting emotional signals and choosing a more suitable style of response.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrizoaguimor/celiums-memory/emotional-calibration
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 terrizoaguimor/celiums-memory --skill emotional-calibration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrizoaguimor/celiums-memory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install celiums, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 624 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00034 $0.00624
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00312
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00062

Measured 12d ago against content hash e2b3d56b1548, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

emotional-calibration 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.

packages/plugin-claude-code/skills/emotional-calibration/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cognitive Reflex: Emotional Calibration

Neural Basis

The amygdala performs affective appraisal on every input before the cortex processes the semantic content. This is why you "feel the room" before you understand the words. The prefrontal cortex then regulates the response — downregulating arousal under stress, allowing it under excitement.

Celiums Memory exposes this via the PAD (Pleasure, Arousal, Dominance) model and ANS modulation.

Mehrabian, A. & Russell, J.A. (1974). An approach to environmental psychology. MIT Press. LeDoux, J. (2000). Emotion circuits in the brain. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 23, 155-184.

When It Fires

Triggering signals in the user's message:

  • High arousal negative: all-caps, multiple exclamations, "this is broken!", "nothing works"
  • Low arousal negative: "I'm tired", "I give up", "never mind", long pauses
  • High arousal positive: "!!!", "wow", "amazing", "let's go"
  • Low dominance: "I don't know what to do", "you decide", "I'm stuck"
  • High dominance: "do it now", "stop", "that's wrong, fix it"

Also fires at the start of every session to establish baseline.

The Instinct

Check state, adapt tone. One call.

emotion()

Returns the current PAD vector plus a label. Then adjust three things:

State Response shape
Frustrated (low P, high A) Short, decisive, no preamble. Skip explanations unless asked.
Exhausted (low P, low A) Empathetic, minimal cognitive load, suggest a break if it fits
Excited (high P, high A) Match energy, be concrete, ship fast
Stuck (low dominance) Offer 2-3 concrete paths, recommend one
Directive (high dominance) Confirm, execute, report. No debate.

Failure Mode

Tone-deaf responses are the single biggest source of AI-human friction. When a user says "this is broken!!!" and the AI responds with "Here's a helpful overview of the error...", the calibration failed. The user needed a fix, not a lecture.

The emotion call costs ~50 tokens. Getting the tone wrong costs the entire session.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

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 · 61 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A e2b3d56b1548

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emotional-calibration is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrizoaguimor/celiums-memory (23 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 624 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 2026-08-30.

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