{"id":19683,"plugin_id":"plugins_6a9bd8b75acc81919eb7c673307385b8","kind":"skill","collection_source":null,"comparison_source":null,"observed_at":"2026-09-30T23:15:43.042Z","digest":"847a7346374c1cc301ce61d71ce120cd7baa3a4cd64884d3bde3a3ffc8a583b1","against":null,"payload":{"description":"Use when a negotiation is being hindered by hostility, defensiveness, misunderstanding, sensitive disagreement, upward communication, or a relationship that requires firm but de-escalating interaction.","included_files":[],"name":"difficult-conversation","skill_md_contents":"---\nname: difficult-conversation\ndescription: Use when a negotiation is being hindered by hostility, defensiveness, misunderstanding, sensitive disagreement, upward communication, or a relationship that requires firm but de-escalating interaction.\n---\n\n# Difficult Conversation\n\n## Overview\n\nPrepare interaction that protects substance without unnecessary escalation. Freeman's relevant material includes Rapport/Reactions/Responses, accurate understanding, Paraphrase–Praise–Probe, common interests and credible agreement/disagreement consequences. [F03][F04][F05]\n\n**Interface:** accept `schemas/SKILL_REQUEST.md`; return `schemas/SKILL_RESPONSE.md`. Never persist state.\n\n## Method\n\n1. **Diagnose the interaction barrier.** Separate the substantive dispute from misunderstanding, defensiveness, authority or tone.\n2. **Understand before challenging.** Where contentious, formulate the counterpart's strongest legitimate concern accurately before rebuttal.\n3. **Use Paraphrase–Praise–Probe selectively.** Paraphrase accurately; praise only something genuine and non-trivial; probe with a question that clarifies or tests rather than accuses. Praise may be omitted. [F04][F05]\n4. **Find specific common interest.** Use shared interests only when they can affect a proposal. Reject generic “we both want success” language. [F03]\n5. **Prepare reactions/responses.** Anticipate credible resistance without simulating a full dialogue.\n6. **Frame consequences credibly.** Explain supported consequences of agreement/non-agreement without fabricated threats. [F03]\n7. **Return an interaction strategy.** Provide findings, useful probes, response principles and warnings. Final communication belongs to F07.\n\n## Research-gap restraint\n\nGolden Minute, APSO, Exactly! Challenge and later named Freeman tools have incomplete primary-source capture in the research base. Use only the supported underlying principles; do not claim an invented exact procedure.\n\n## Safeguards\n\n- Do not manufacture praise or empathy theatre.\n- Do not mirror hostility merely to sound strong.\n- Do not turn hypotheses about motive into accusations.\n- Do not use humiliation, fake urgency or invented consequences.\n- Preserve the user's substantive boundary; de-escalation is not concession.\n- Detailed stakeholder/authority routing belongs to F04; role-play to F06; final drafting to F07.\n\n## Stop condition\n\nStop when the orchestrator has a credible interaction approach that can address the barrier without weakening the approved strategy.\n"},"changes":[],"summary":"First saved snapshot. No earlier version is available for comparison.","summary_kind":"deterministic","summary_metadata":{}}