door-in-the-face SKILL.md skillA
door-in-the-face 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/door-in-the-face@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
door-in-the-face/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 8,061 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
"Activate when: user asks 'they made a big ask then backed off, should I concede?'; user is designing a negotiation opening and wants to land at a specific price; someone says 'anchor high then retreat' or 'reciprocal concession'; user suspects they are being manipulated by a two-step request pattern.
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
# Door-in-the-Face Technique ## Overview Ask for something large (expect refusal), then retreat to the smaller request you actually wanted. The empirically documented result: compliance with the smaller ask is 2-3x higher than asking for it directly (Cialdini et al., 1975). The mechanism is *reciprocal concession* — the target perceives your retreat as a concession and feels social pressure to match it. Three operations: **recognize** DITF when used on you; **design** it ethically as a proposer; **distinguish** it from pure anchoring (two requests with refusal vs. a single number). Composes with [`reciprocity`](../reciprocity/SKILL.md), [`anchoring`](../anchoring/SKILL.md), [`signaling-games`](../signaling-games/SKILL.md), [`batna-zopa`](../batna-zopa/SKILL.md). ## When to Use - Designing a negotiation opening where you want to land at a specific price/term - Designing a fundraising ask where the target gift is moderate but commitment to the cause is high - Designing a sales process where you want customers in a specific tier - **Recognizing** that you are being run with DITF by an opposing party …
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How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/door-in-the-face@sha256:cff6fa818235d275The 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 | 8,061 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 8,061 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 8,061 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.2ed857e | 2026-07-17 | 2ed857e | 8,061 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.fac12bf | 2026-07-16 | fac12bf | 8,061 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_waj27d3sswervl7a GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/door-in-the-face GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cff6fa818235d27557dffadff17a4f8aa32a6d83370a68a9b3a43ac603917d01
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.
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