woop

A goal-setting method that turns a wish into a desired result, likely obstacle, and specific if-then action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn goals such as shipping a rewrite or launching a product into concrete actions and backup plans.
Why use it?
It reduces the gap between wanting something and deciding what to do when difficulties arise by considering obstacles before making a plan.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,704 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00021 $0.01704
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00852
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00341
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00170

Measured yesterday against content hash 4700680455bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

woop 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 yesterday.

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/woop/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WOOP

Overview

WOOP is a science-backed goal-setting method developed by psychologist Gabriele Oettingen. It uses mental contrasting — imagining the best outcome AND the realistic obstacles together — then anchors action with an if-then plan. Pure positive thinking increases wishful daydreaming but lowers effort; WOOP short-circuits that by forcing obstacle acknowledgment upfront.

  WISH          OUTCOME        OBSTACLE        PLAN
  ─────         ────────       ──────────      ──────────────────
  What do  →   Best result  → Inner block  →  If [obstacle],
  I want?       if it works?   standing          then I will
                               in the way        [specific action]

Elements

W — Wish

A meaningful, challenging but realistic desire. The wish should stretch you but not be fantasy. Too easy = no motivation. Impossible = hopeless paralysis.

  • Frame it in 3–6 words: "Launch product by Q3", "Run a 10K", "Ship the API rewrite"
  • It must be something you genuinely want, not something you feel you should want
  • Scope it to a single goal; do not bundle multiple wishes

O — Outcome

The single best result of fulfilling the wish. Visualize it vividly and specifically — what does success look, feel, and mean? This is not a list of benefits; it is one concrete peak moment or state.

  • Bad: "I'll feel good about myself"
  • Good: "The product is live, the first paying customer signs up, and the team celebrates"
  • Spend 1–2 minutes actually picturing this in your mind before moving on

O — Obstacle

The primary inner obstacle — a habit, emotion, assumption, or behavior pattern — that could prevent you from reaching the outcome. This is not an external blocker (budget cuts, other people). It is something within you.

  • Bad obstacle: "My manager doesn't give me time" (external)
  • Good obstacle: "I procrastinate when tasks feel ambiguous" (internal)
  • Pick the single most critical obstacle; do not list five

P — Plan

An if-then implementation intention tied directly to the obstacle. The format is strict: "If [obstacle occurs], then I will [concrete behavior]."

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. yesterday First seen · 118 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 4700680455bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

woop is a skill published in the GitHub repository tupe12334/instinct (1 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,704 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.