Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills --skill trust-from-zerogit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yanniskiefer/dark-psychology-skills/trust-from-zero)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yanniskiefer/dark-psychology-skills/trust-from-zero"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yanniskiefer/dark-psychology-skills/trust-from-zero/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yanniskiefer/dark-psychology-skills/trust-from-zero"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yanniskiefer/dark-psychology-skills/trust-from-zero.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00025 | $0.00349 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00175 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00070 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00035 |
Grade A, and why
trust-from-zero 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
Trust From Zero
The Big Idea
Strangers don't trust you. Shouting harder makes it worse.
You can't say "trust me". You can only remove reasons not to.
Put the risk on your side. Show it before they ask.
The Moves
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Name the flaw first. Say the worst thing before they think of it. "Most people who sell this are scammers. Here's what I do different."
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Show, then ask. Don't ask for belief. Ask for 2 minutes of looking. "Don't decide yet. Just look at this one finished case."
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Take the risk yourself. "If it doesn't work, you pay nothing." Then make that true. Words are cheap. Structures cost money. People believe structures.
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Use real numbers or say nothing. "Fast" means nothing. "Done in 11 days" sounds true.
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Give honest ranges. "Most cases take 7 to 21 days" beats "guaranteed!" People who sound sure all the time sound fake.
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Stay the same person. Same name, same voice, same facts. One caught lie poisons everything.
When It Backfires
- Naming flaws you don't fix. That's fake honesty.
- Explaining twice after they heard you once. Long defense looks guilty.
- Fake deadlines. One caught lie ends it all.
One-Line Memory
Trust is what's left after you hand over every reason to doubt.
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 · 49 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 0551a4f2cf38
trust-from-zero 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 349 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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