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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00025 | $0.00415 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00208 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00083 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00042 |
Grade A, and why
dark-tactics-defense 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.
What it actually says
Dark Tactics Defense
The Big Idea
All of dark psychology fits in one line: people only defend against what they can see.
Pros hide the mechanism. Your job is to see it.
And for your own side: use only moves that survive being explained out loud.
The Trick List (so you can spot it)
- Fake scarcity: "only 2 left", every week again
- Small gift first, big ask after
- Scare first, sell the rescue after
- Tiny yes, then bigger and bigger yeses
- Hot and cold attention that trains you to chase
- Guilt: "after all I did for you..."
- "Don't tell your partner or lawyer about this"
- Word floods that sound smart and stop thinking
- "Either this or disaster"
- Making you doubt what you clearly saw
The Defense
- Never decide on someone else's clock. Rushed = slow down.
- Get it in writing.
- Keep your advisors close. Anyone who cuts them off is not on your side.
- Ask for specifics. "What exactly does guaranteed mean?"
- One sign means little. Two or more mean slow down.
- A bad feeling without proof? Check before you trust or spend.
The Honest Line (for your own moves)
Use freely. Works even when explained: real proof, real deadlines, true numbers, named flaws, earned discounts, freedom to walk, freedom to ask anyone.
Never touch. Always explodes later: invented results, fake urgency, fake reviews, switch after sale, fake titles, guilt trips, cutting people off from advisors.
The test: if they found out exactly what you did, angry or impressed?
One-Line Memory
Honest influence keeps working after you explain it. Tricks only work until they're seen.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 55 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A e14126ef284f
dark-tactics-defense is a skill published in the GitHub repository YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills (5 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 415 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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