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operator-mindset

operator-mindset is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills. It costs 18 tokens per session (333 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short self-check for writing important messages and handling rejection. It focuses on staying factual, concise, calm, and focused on the next useful action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before sending an important message, after someone rejects an offer or request, and when resetting between difficult conversations.
Why use it?
It helps prevent over-explaining, emotional replies, repeated follow-ups, and treating feelings as evidence. It also frames a rejection as information about the approach, timing, or recipient.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

not rated 19repo +1 2mo ago A scan 18 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it before sending an important message, after someone rejects an offer or request, and when resetting between difficult conversations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yanniskiefer/dark-psychology-skills/operator-mindset
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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills --skill operator-mindset
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 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 333 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 $0.00018 $0.00333
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00133
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00033

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 720ae31ecc4b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

operator-mindset 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/operator-mindset/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Operator Mindset

The Big Idea

Your messages leak your mood.

Neediness, fear, and anger travel through text. Fix the operator, and half the message problems die.

The Moves

  1. Check before every send:

    • Am I chasing? (double texting, over explaining)
    • Is everything in here true?
    • Can I cut one line?
    • Does this move anything forward? Fail one? Rewrite.

  2. A no is information. Wrong person, wrong angle, or wrong time. It never means YOU are wrong.

  3. Fact or feeling? Fact: they said the price is high. Feeling: they hate me. Send against facts only.

  4. Nerves are fuel. Same energy before a send. Call it fear, it works against you. Call it focus, it works for you.

  5. Reset between chats. Ten breaths after a hostile thread. Buyer number three shouldn't feel buyer number two's mood.

  6. Replay wins. Starve losses. What you replay gets stronger. Choose what you replay.

  7. Keep two deals alive. Walk-away power is real only when other options exist.

When It Backfires

  • Using mindset talk to avoid changing your approach. Data says change the angle. Ego says push again. Listen to data.

One-Line Memory

You can't write a calm message if you need the deal.

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 · 55 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 720ae31ecc4b

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operator-mindset is a skill published in the GitHub repository YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills (19 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 333 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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