Agent skill

Open Payments Launch

by hh-health-AI in hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity

This skill should be used when the user asks about "Open Payments", "Sunshine Act", "manufacturer spend on physicians", "speaker programme spend", "launch spend signal", "KOL engagement", or wants a…

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Install Open Payments Launch

skills CLI
$ npx skills add hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity --skill open-payments-launch -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity open-payments-launch --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/hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/modules/rx-utilization/skills/open-payments-launch .claude/skills/open-payments-launch && 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
open-payments-launch
GitHub stars
101
Token cost
~840 tokens
SKILL.md length
415 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
72
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

This skill should be used when the user asks about "Open Payments", "Sunshine Act", "manufacturer spend on physicians", "speaker programme spend", "launch spend signal", "KOL engagement", or wants a…

  • Works in 6 steps: Pull general payments for the… → Split by payment nature. The categories… → Count distinct covered recipients, not… → …
  • Asks about Open Payments
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow, Interpretation, Caveats that cap this skill's… and Not-automatic
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Open Payments Launch is an agent skill from hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity. This skill should be used when the user asks about "Open Payments", "Sunshine Act", "manufacturer spend on physicians", "speaker programme spend", "launch spend signal", "KOL engagement", or wants a leading read on how hard a company is pushing a specific product before revenue shows up.

Its SKILL.md is about 840 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: Synthesis engine for buy-side healthcare equity research. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asks about Open Payments
  • Manufacturer spend on physicians
  • Speaker programme spend
  • Launch spend signal

Example prompts

  • “Open Payments”
  • “Sunshine Act”
  • “manufacturer spend on physicians”
  • “/open-payments-launch”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Pull general payments for the manufacturer, filtered to the product name, by
  2. Split by payment nature. The categories carry different meaning
  3. Count distinct covered recipients, not just dollars. Recipient breadth tracks
  4. Benchmark against the same company's prior launches and against a named competitor
  5. Overlay the timeline: approval date, guideline inclusion, competitor entry.
  6. Emit the brief.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6c7bda8. 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

Open Payments Launch loads about 840 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 77 tokens; SKILL.md has 415 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~77
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~840

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 hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity at commit 6c7bda8, republished under its MIT licence (© hh-health-AI). 415 words, ~840 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/open-payments-launch/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
open-payments-launch
description
This skill should be used when the user asks about "Open Payments", "Sunshine Act", "manufacturer spend on physicians", "speaker programme spend", "launch spend signal", "KOL engagement", or wants a leading read on how hard a company is pushing a specific product before revenue shows up.
metadata.version
0.1.0
metadata.layer
Commercial

Open Payments launch signal

Read manufacturer payment behaviour as a leading indicator of commercial intent, launch ramp and KOL engagement — then be disciplined about what it cannot say.

Workflow

  1. Pull general payments for the manufacturer, filtered to the product name, by program year (scripts/open_payments.py). Products are named in the record, so a product-level series is available inside a multi-product company.
  2. Split by payment nature. The categories carry different meaning:
    • Compensation for services other than consulting (speaker programmes) — the promotional push. Scales with sales-force deployment.
    • Consulting fee — advisory-board work. Rises ahead of launch and ahead of label expansions, often two to four quarters before promotional spend.
    • Food and beverage — detailing intensity, a rep-activity proxy.
    • Travel, education, grants — mixed; grants can be medical-affairs rather than commercial and should not be read as promotional.
  3. Count distinct covered recipients, not just dollars. Recipient breadth tracks sales-force reach; dollars alone can be one large speaker contract.
  4. Benchmark against the same company's prior launches and against a named competitor launch in the same class and year. Absolute dollars are meaningless without an analogue; the ratio to a known launch is the usable number.
  5. Overlay the timeline: approval date, guideline inclusion, competitor entry.
  6. Emit the brief.
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Interpretation

  • Consulting spend rising while promotional spend is flat, two quarters before an expected approval, is a preparation signal — commercial is building the KOL bench.
  • Promotional spend falling year over year on a product still in its first three years is a de-prioritisation signal, and it usually shows up before management language changes on calls.
  • Spend per recipient rising while recipient count falls means the programme has narrowed to a core group — consistent with a launch that is deepening rather than broadening. Cross-check with partd-prescriber-share.
  • After a safety signal, watch for speaker-programme spend to stop. Companies pull promotional programmes fast; the data lag means you see it a year later, so this is a confirmatory rather than a timely signal.

Caveats that cap this skill's confidence

Annual publication (full prior program year by 30 June, refreshed each January). That cadence makes this a structural signal, not a tradeable one — do not build a catalyst trade on it. Payments are reported by manufacturer with dispute windows. Product attribution is imperfect for combination and device-drug products.

Not-automatic

Spend is not sales, and spend intensity is not efficacy. High promotional spend on a struggling launch is evidence of effort, not of traction.

Chains to a catalyst engine and a provider-adoption engine. Contract: ../../references/evidence-brief.md.

© hh-health-AI, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in modules/rx-utilization/skills/open-payments-launch of hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6c7bda8

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Questions about Open Payments Launch

What does Open Payments Launch do?

This skill should be used when the user asks about "Open Payments", "Sunshine Act", "manufacturer spend on physicians", "speaker programme spend", "launch spend signal", "KOL engagement", or wants a…. Open Payments Launch is an agent skill from hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity. This skill should be used when the user asks about "Open Payments", "Sunshine Act", "manufacturer spend on physicians", "speaker programme spend", "launch spend signal", "KOL engagement", or wants a leading read on how hard a company is pushing a specific product before revenue shows up.

When should I use Open Payments Launch?

Open Payments Launch fits situations like: asks about Open Payments; manufacturer spend on physicians; speaker programme spend; launch spend signal.

How do I install Open Payments Launch in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity --skill open-payments-launch -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (modules/rx-utilization/skills/open-payments-launch in hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity) into .claude/skills/open-payments-launch in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Open Payments Launch in Codex?

Run `npx skills add hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity --skill open-payments-launch -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (modules/rx-utilization/skills/open-payments-launch in hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity) into .agents/skills/open-payments-launch in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Open Payments Launch 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 hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity --skill open-payments-launch -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/open-payments-launch, .gemini/skills/open-payments-launch, .github/skills/open-payments-launch and .opencode/skills/open-payments-launch in your project.

What does Open Payments Launch need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Open Payments Launch is instructions for the agent only.

Does Open Payments Launch 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 Open Payments Launch 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 Open Payments Launch use?

Open Payments Launch 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 Open Payments Launch use?

About 840 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.4k 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 Open Payments Launch?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Open Payments Launch: Shipping and Launch Checklist (addyosmani/agent-skills, 105k stars), Agent Payments (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars), Launch Strategy (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars) and HTML Ppt Product Launch (nexu-io/open-design, 100k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Open Payments Launch?

hh-health-AI (a GitHub user) maintains it in hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity, which has 101 GitHub stars. The repository holds 72 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.