batna-zopa SKILL.md skillA
batna-zopa from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/batna-zopa@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
batna-zopa/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 7,105 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Activate when: user says 'walk-away point', 'reservation price', 'should I take this deal', 'what's my leverage', 'they won't budge', or any salary/term-sheet/vendor/M&A negotiation where stakes are non-trivial. Do NOT activate when: the situation is a purely emotional relationship dispute with no transactional dimension; cultural context makes explicit BATNA discussion taboo. More: deciqai.com/s/batna-zopa.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# BATNA & ZOPA ## Overview **BATNA** (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) is the value of your best fallback if no deal happens — the floor below which you walk away. A negotiator without a clear BATNA negotiates from fear; with one, from position. **ZOPA** (Zone of Possible Agreement) is the overlap between what each side will accept. If it exists, a deal is possible; if not, the question is structural change — not harder negotiating. Composes with [`anchoring`](../anchoring/SKILL.md), [`signaling-games`](../signaling-games/SKILL.md), [`repeated-games-reputation`](../repeated-games-reputation/SKILL.md), and [`prisoners-dilemma`](../prisoners-dilemma/SKILL.md). ## When to Use - Any non-trivial negotiation: term sheets, salary, partnership, M&A, vendor contracts, customer pricing - You feel pressure to take a deal that "feels bad" — usually a sign your BATNA is weak or not modeled - Assess whether a deal *can* happen before investing time in tactics - Raising in the 2024–2026 AI market (term sheets, SAFEs) or committing to a GPU-cloud / compute contract, where FOMO and "capacity is scarce" pressure obscure your real alternative …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/batna-zopa@sha256:3095a29c347776eaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 25 days.
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| git:20261025.cb4e537 latest | 2026-10-25 | cb4e537 | 7,105 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 7,105 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 7,105 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.2ed857e | 2026-07-17 | 2ed857e | 7,105 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.fac12bf | 2026-07-16 | fac12bf | 7,105 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7105 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uvevoy4akhc7g52w GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/batna-zopa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3095a29c347776eab200d514476f2b36869aa3c5087d49945fa2349bf01c0ed2
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.