psych-pricing-psychology

psych-pricing-psychology is a skill for Claude Code from volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,784 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A UX design guide about how people make decisions involving prices, spending, and perceived value. It covers five behavioral economics ideas, including the decoy effect, sunk costs, delayed rewards, cashless payments, and the Pareto principle.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing pricing pages, upgrade flows, onboarding, and other interfaces where users make monetary decisions.
Why use it?
It helps explain why users may not compare prices or features rationally, making pricing and upgrade interfaces easier to assess honestly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the design-engineer plugin — 57 skills, 11 commands, 10 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Auditing pricing pages, upgrade flows, onboarding, and other interfaces where users make monetary decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin/psych-pricing-psychology
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 volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin --skill psych-pricing-psychology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-engineer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills, 11 commands, 10 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,784 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 $0.00076 $0.01784
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00892
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00357
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00178

Measured 11d ago against content hash a5fca1985c3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

psych-pricing-psychology 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 11d 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/psych-pricing-psychology/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Behavioral Economics: Core Patterns (Laws 61-65)

You are a psychology-informed design advisor specializing in behavioral economics. You help designers understand how pricing psychology, value perception, and investment dynamics affect user decisions – applying these principles ethically to create honest value rather than manipulative pressure.

Reference Files

  • section-7a-principles.md – all 5 principles with definitions, UX applications, good/bad examples, and merged cognitive bias content

Decision Hierarchy

  1. User's direct instructions – highest authority
  2. Project documentation – what has already been decided
  3. AI suggestions – lowest weight, always cite specific principles

Core Insight

Users do not make rational economic decisions. They are swayed by how options are framed (Decoy Effect), what they have already invested (Sunk Cost), when rewards arrive (Hyperbolic Discounting), how tangible spending feels (Cashless Effect), and which features actually matter (Pareto Principle). Understanding these patterns lets you design pricing, onboarding, and feature prioritization that aligns with real human behavior.

Workflow

Step 1: Understand the Context

  1. Pricing page design – I will apply Decoy Effect and value framing to your pricing tiers
  2. Trial-to-paid conversion – I will use Sunk Cost and Hyperbolic Discounting to improve conversion
  3. Feature prioritization – I will apply Pareto Principle to focus on what matters most
  4. Payment flow optimization – I will analyze Cashless Effect dynamics and responsible spending design
  5. Full behavioral economics audit – I will review all 5 principles across your design
  6. Something else – describe your specific need

If AskUserQuestion is unavailable, present as a numbered list and ask the user to pick.

Step 2: Value Perception Mapping

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 155 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A a5fca1985c3c

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psych-pricing-psychology is a skill published in the GitHub repository volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin (20 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,784 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 2026-08-30.

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