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discovery-power

discovery-power is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (396 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversation guide for learning what someone wants, worries about, or is withholding through indirect, non-confrontational questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in discovery calls, interviews, or difficult conversations to label concerns, invite corrections, make refusal safe, and confirm your understanding.
Why use it?
It helps conversations continue when direct questions feel accusatory or make people defensive.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

not rated 19repo +1 2mo ago A scan 23 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it in discovery calls, interviews, or difficult conversations to label concerns, invite corrections, make refusal safe, and confirm your understanding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yanniskiefer/dark-psychology-skills/discovery-power
View source ↗ YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills
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 YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills --skill discovery-power
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 396 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 $0.00023 $0.00396
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00158
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00040

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2f0f3ff4ef7d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discovery-power 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 2mo 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/discovery-power/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Discovery Power

The Big Idea

Direct questions make people shut down. Smart moves make them open up and feel smart too.

People never argue with their own ideas. So don't give conclusions. Ask questions that lead them there.

The Moves

  1. Name their worst thought first. "You probably think this is a scam. Fair." Now their shield has nothing to block.

  2. Label the feeling. "Seems like timing worries you." Right? Trust jumps. Wrong? They correct you. That's the real answer.

  3. Repeat their last words as a question. Them: "The last guy disappeared." You: "Disappeared?" They keep talking. You learn everything.

  4. Ask "what" and "how". Never "why". "What happened with the last person you tried?" "How would this need to work for you to say yes?" "Why" sounds like blame.

  5. Make "no" safe. People say no to pushes but yes to choices: "Would it be crazy to start with the free sample?"

  6. Summarize until they say "that's right". Tell their story back to them, short. "That's right" means real agreement. "You're right" means they manage you.

  7. Say something almost true. "Most owners already paid someone who ghosted them." Their correction tells you their story.

When It Backfires

  • Two questions in one message. Feels like an arrest.
  • Mirroring twice in a row. Feels like mocking.
  • Using labels on people who already trust you. Starts feeling like tricks.

One-Line Memory

Good questions close deals while you talk less.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 57 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 2f0f3ff4ef7d

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discovery-power is a skill published in the GitHub repository YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills (19 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 396 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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