Agent skill

Read The Room

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Figure out the real social dynamics of a situation — the unspoken mood, who holds influence, what's actually going on beneath the surface — so you respond to what's real, not just what's said.

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Install Read The Room

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill read-the-room -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills read-the-room --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/read-the-room .claude/skills/read-the-room && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
read-the-room
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
587 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Figure out the real social dynamics of a situation — the unspoken mood, who holds influence, what's actually going on beneath the surface — so you respond to what's real, not just what's said.

  • Works in 6 steps: Read the emotional temperature. From the… → Map real influence. Identify who… → Surface the subtext. Name the likely… → …
  • Asked help me read this situation
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Interpret, Verify,… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Read The Room is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Figure out the real social dynamics of a situation — the unspoken mood, who holds influence, what's actually going on beneath the surface — so you respond to what's real, not just what's said. Use when asked help me read this situation, what's really going on here, how should I play this socially, or I can't tell the vibe. Produces an interpretation of the likely dynamics from your description (the mood, the power/influence, the unspoken tensions, what people actually want), how to check your read, and how to…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked help me read this situation
  • Whats really going on here
  • How should I play this socially
  • I cant tell the vibe

Example prompts

  • “s actually going on beneath the surface — so you respond to what”
  • “s said. Use when asked help me read this situation, what”
  • “/read-the-room”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Read the emotional temperature. From the described signals, infer the likely mood — the thing that's felt but not said, which drives how…
  2. Map real influence. Identify who actually holds sway and whose reaction matters most — often not the person talking most or ranking highest.
  3. Surface the subtext. Name the likely unspoken tensions and what people seem to actually want, beneath the stated words.
  4. Hold it as a hypothesis. A read is a guess — offer ways to test it (a probing comment, a quiet check with someone, watching a reaction)…
  5. Adjust the approach. Translate the read into a concrete change — push now vs. wait, whose buy-in to get first, what to avoid saying.
  6. Don't over-read. Caution against paranoia and elaborate mind-reading; stay curious and verify rather than assume the worst.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Read The Room loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 157 tokens; SKILL.md has 587 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~157
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 587 words, ~1,156 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/read-the-room/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
read-the-room
description
Figure out the real social dynamics of a situation — the unspoken mood, who holds influence, what's actually going on beneath the surface — so you respond to what's real, not just what's said. Use when asked help me read this situation, what's really going on here, how should I play this socially, or I can't tell the vibe. Produces an interpretation of the likely dynamics from your description (the mood, the power/influence, the unspoken tensions, what people actually want), how to check your read, and how to adjust your approach — with a caution against over-reading and a nudge to verify rather than assume.

Read the Room

Some people instinctively sense the mood, the power dynamics, and what's really being said under the words — others miss it entirely and step on landmines. This helps you read a situation: from what you describe, it interprets the likely dynamics (the vibe, who's driving, the unspoken tension, what people actually want), tells you how to check your read against reality, and how to adjust — while cautioning that reading a room is inference, not certainty.

What This Skill Produces

  • The likely mood — the emotional temperature and vibe you might be missing (tense, checked-out, competitive, warm)
  • The power/influence map — who actually holds sway (not always the loudest or most senior), and whose buy-in matters
  • The unspoken layer — the tensions, subtext, and what people seem to actually want vs. what's being said
  • How to verify — ways to check your read (a test comment, a private ask, watching reactions) rather than acting on a guess
  • How to adjust — the change in your approach the read suggests (when to push, hold back, ally, or wait)
  • An over-reading caution — a reminder that inference isn't certainty and to stay curious, not paranoid

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The situation — the meeting/gathering/interaction, and who's involved
  • What you've observed — reactions, tone, body language, what's been said (the raw signals)
  • Your position — your role/stake in it
  • What you're trying to do — the goal you're navigating toward
  • What's confusing you — where your read feels off or uncertain

Framework: Interpret, Verify, Adjust

  1. Read the emotional temperature. From the described signals, infer the likely mood — the thing that's felt but not said, which drives how people will actually respond.
  2. Map real influence. Identify who actually holds sway and whose reaction matters most — often not the person talking most or ranking highest.
  3. Surface the subtext. Name the likely unspoken tensions and what people seem to actually want, beneath the stated words.
  4. Hold it as a hypothesis. A read is a guess — offer ways to test it (a probing comment, a quiet check with someone, watching a reaction) before betting on it.
  5. Adjust the approach. Translate the read into a concrete change — push now vs. wait, whose buy-in to get first, what to avoid saying.
  6. Don't over-read. Caution against paranoia and elaborate mind-reading; stay curious and verify rather than assume the worst.
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Output Format

Reading: [the situation] · your goal [x]

Likely mood: [the emotional temperature you might be missing]. Who actually holds sway: [real influence, not just rank/volume]. The unspoken layer: [tensions + what people seem to actually want]. Check your read: [a way to verify before acting — test/ask/observe]. Adjust your approach: [push / hold / ally / wait — the concrete change]. Don't over-read: it's a hypothesis, not certainty — stay curious.

Quality Checks

  • Infers the likely mood from the described signals
  • Maps real influence, not just rank/volume
  • Surfaces the unspoken subtext and what people want
  • Frames the read as a hypothesis with a way to verify
  • Translates it into a concrete approach adjustment
  • Cautions against over-reading/paranoia

Anti-Patterns

  • Stating the read as certain fact from limited signals.
  • Only reading the surface (rank, what's said).
  • Encouraging paranoid over-interpretation.
  • A read with no verify step or no approach adjustment.
  • Ignoring who actually holds influence.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Help me read this meeting — I can't tell the vibe."
  • "What's really going on in this situation at work?"
  • "How should I play this socially? Something feels off."
  • "I can't tell if my boss is annoyed or just busy — read it for me."
  • "What's the unspoken dynamic in this group?"

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/read-the-room of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Read The Room

What does Read The Room do?

Figure out the real social dynamics of a situation — the unspoken mood, who holds influence, what's actually going on beneath the surface — so you respond to what's real, not just what's said. Read The Room is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Figure out the real social dynamics of a situation — the unspoken mood, who holds influence, what's actually going on beneath the surface — so you respond to what's real, not just what's said.

When should I use Read The Room?

Read The Room fits situations like: asked help me read this situation; whats really going on here; how should I play this socially; I cant tell the vibe.

How do I install Read The Room in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill read-the-room -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/read-the-room in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/read-the-room in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Read The Room in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill read-the-room -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/read-the-room in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/read-the-room in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Read The Room in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill read-the-room -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/read-the-room, .gemini/skills/read-the-room, .github/skills/read-the-room and .opencode/skills/read-the-room in your project.

What does Read The Room need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Read The Room is instructions for the agent only.

Does Read The Room access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Read The Room safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Read The Room use?

Read The Room is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Read The Room use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Read The Room?

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Who maintains Read The Room?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.