risk-reversal

risk-reversal is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (339 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A sales framework for reducing a hesitant buyer’s fear of paying before seeing results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure offers, demonstrations, trial work, payment terms, and guarantees for buyers who do not yet trust the seller.
Why use it?
It shifts more of the purchase risk to the seller through options such as payment after results, small batches, or a free first example.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to structure offers, demonstrations, trial work, payment terms, and guarantees for buyers who do not yet trust the seller.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yanniskiefer/dark-psychology-skills/risk-reversal
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 risk-reversal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 339 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 $0.00028 $0.00339
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00136
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d637c1f7c311, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

risk-reversal 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/risk-reversal/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Risk Reversal

The Big Idea

Buyers don't fear the price. They fear paying and getting nothing.

Everyone says "trust me". Almost nobody says "pay only if it works". The second one wins, because you can't fake it cheaply.

The Moves

  1. Pay after result beats any guarantee. Money-back is words. Pay-later is structure. "Nothing upfront. You see it done, then you pay."

  2. Say it out loud. "You'd judge me by results anyway. I just put it in writing."

  3. One free demo at your cost. "First one is free. If it works, you pay for that one plus the rest." Nothing converts a skeptic faster.

  4. Small steps for big doubt. "Batches of five. Each batch paid after you check it." Trust grows in checked steps.

  5. Even a NO leaves them ahead. Give something they keep: an audit, a checklist, real info. "Wasted my time" becomes "still got value".

  6. Only promise what you can carry. A risk reversal you can't honor is failure number one.

When It Backfires

  • Fine print. Conditions kill the effect. Keep it short enough to screenshot.
  • Using it on buyers who already said yes. Save it for the scared ones.

One-Line Memory

Take their risk, and the deal closes itself.

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 · 49 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A d637c1f7c311

Subscribe to this mod's changes

risk-reversal is a skill published in the GitHub repository YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills (19 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 339 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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