spin-selling

spin-selling is a skill for Claude Code from tupe12334/instinct. It costs 27 tokens per session (2,554 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A sales-questioning framework organized around Situation, Problem, Implication, and Need-Payoff questions. It guides a conversation from understanding a buyer's circumstances to discussing the value of solving a problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning or conducting sales conversations by choosing questions about the buyer's current situation, problems, consequences, and desired benefits.
Why use it?
It helps sellers uncover the effects of a problem through questions instead of starting with a feature pitch.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the instinct plugin — 54 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Planning or conducting sales conversations by choosing questions about the buyer's current…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tupe12334/instinct/spin-selling
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tupe12334/instinct --skill spin-selling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tupe12334/instinct

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install instinct, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,554 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 $0.00027 $0.02554
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01277
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00511
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00255

Measured 6d ago against content hash 130b1d1a6317, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spin-selling 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 6d 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.

skills/spin-selling/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SPIN Selling

Overview

SPIN Selling is a research-backed sales questioning framework developed by Neil Rackham from analysis of 35,000 sales calls. Instead of pitching features, the seller asks four types of questions in sequence to make the buyer feel — and articulate — the full weight of their problem before any solution is mentioned.

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  S ──► P ──► I ──► N                                         │
│                                                              │
│  Situation    Problem      Implication    Need-Payoff        │
│  (facts)      (pain)       (consequences) (buyer sells       │
│                                            themselves)       │
│                                                              │
│  LOW value    MEDIUM       HIGH value     HIGHEST value      │
│  questions    value        questions      questions          │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

SPIN works because buyers commit to solutions they have articulated themselves. The seller's job is to surface and amplify the problem until the buyer requests help — not to persuade.

Question Types

S — Situation Questions

Gather factual context about the buyer's current state. These are necessary but low-value; use them sparingly because they bore prospects who have answered them before.

Goal: establish baseline facts needed to ask smart Problem questions.

Examples:

  • "How many people are currently handling your invoicing process?"
  • "What CRM system are you running today?"
  • "How long has this team been structured this way?"

Rule: do your research beforehand. Asking questions you could have answered with 10 minutes of prep signals laziness and burns trust.

P — Problem Questions

Uncover difficulties, frustrations, and dissatisfactions with the current situation. This is where implicit need begins to surface.

Goal: get the buyer to acknowledge a specific, named problem.

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. 6d ago First seen · 180 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 130b1d1a6317

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spin-selling is a skill published in the GitHub repository tupe12334/instinct (1 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,554 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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