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Home Contractor Quote Decoder

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Decode a home renovation or repair quote — allowances that aren't prices, exclusions that become change orders, payment schedules that shift risk, and what a comparable-bids check should cover.

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Install Home Contractor Quote Decoder

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill home-contractor-quote-decoder -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills home-contractor-quote-decoder --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/home-contractor-quote-decoder .claude/skills/home-contractor-quote-decoder && 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
home-contractor-quote-decoder
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
743 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Decode a home renovation or repair quote — allowances that aren't prices, exclusions that become change orders, payment schedules that shift risk, and what a comparable-bids check should cover.

  • Someone asks is this contractor quote fair
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Severity Scale and Output Format, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Decode this renovation bid

What it does

Home Contractor Quote Decoder is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Decode a home renovation or repair quote — allowances that aren't prices, exclusions that become change orders, payment schedules that shift risk, and what a comparable-bids check should cover. Use when someone asks 'is this contractor quote fair', 'decode this renovation bid', 'what should be in a contractor contract', or 'why do these three bids differ so much'. Produces a section-by-section decode, the allowance and exclusion audit, payment-schedule risk analysis, and the questions that make bids comparable.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/worked-example.md`).

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

  • Someone asks is this contractor quote fair
  • Decode this renovation bid
  • What should be in a contractor contract
  • Why do these three bids differ so much

Example prompts

  • “is this contractor quote fair”
  • “decode this renovation bid”
  • “what should be in a contractor contract”
  • “/home-contractor-quote-decoder”

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

Home Contractor Quote Decoder loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 137 tokens; SKILL.md has 743 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~137
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.8k

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). 743 words, ~1,480 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/home-contractor-quote-decoder/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
home-contractor-quote-decoder
description
Decode a home renovation or repair quote — allowances that aren't prices, exclusions that become change orders, payment schedules that shift risk, and what a comparable-bids check should cover. Use when someone asks 'is this contractor quote fair', 'decode this renovation bid', 'what should be in a contractor contract', or 'why do these three bids differ so much'. Produces a section-by-section decode, the allowance and exclusion audit, payment-schedule risk analysis, and the questions that make bids comparable.

Home Contractor Quote Decoder Skill

The most expensive number in a renovation quote is usually one that isn't there: the allowance that runs out, the exclusion that becomes a change order, the "TBD" that becomes time-and-materials. This skill decodes the quote the way a construction manager reads a bid — hunting the gaps between what's written and what the finished job requires — and turns three incomparable bids into one comparable question set. It reads documents; it doesn't judge workmanship.

What This Skill Produces

  • A section-by-section decode: scope, materials, allowances, exclusions, schedule, payment terms
  • The allowance audit — every allowance vs. what that item realistically requires, flagged where it's a teaser
  • The exclusion-to-change-order map: what's not in this price that the finished job will need
  • Payment-schedule risk read, and the question set that makes competing bids comparable

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

  • The quote/contract text — full document preferred; decode what's provided and name the missing sections (a one-page quote for a $60k job is itself a finding).
  • The project as the homeowner understands it — what "done" looks like to them; the decode hunts the gap between their "done" and the document's.
  • Competing bids if any — the decode aligns them line by line.
  • Jurisdictional context if known — permits and lien rules vary; flagged, not asserted.

Framework: Severity Scale

  • 🔴 Resolve before signing — allowances materially below what the selected-grade item costs (a $2,000 cabinet allowance in a kitchen remodel is a placeholder wearing a price), scope described by outcome without specification ("renovate bathroom" vs. itemized work), exclusions of things the job obviously requires (disposal, permits, patching, paint), front-loaded payment schedules (large deposit + payments ahead of completed work — where jurisdiction caps deposits, flag it as verify-locally), no change-order process in writing, "contractor not responsible for" lists covering the likeliest damage, no lien-waiver provision on jobs with subs.
  • 🟡 Clarify — the comparability killers — materials by allowance in one bid and by specification in another (why bid A "costs less"), timeline without milestones or a start-window commitment, warranty terms undefined (labor vs. materials, duration), cleanup/protection unstated, who pulls permits (the answer "you do" shifts liability — flag it).
  • 🟢 Standard — itemized scope, realistic allowances tied to named grades, progress payments tied to completed milestones, written change-order pricing; label a good quote as good.

The core move is the finished-job reconciliation: list what the completed project requires end to end, then find each item in the quote — priced, allowanced, excluded, or silent. Silent items are the future change orders; price the gap.

Output Format

Show full SKILL.md (326 more words)Show less
Contractor Quote Decode: [project — contractor, amount]

1. The verdict — the real expected cost range (quote + likely allowance overages + silent items), in three sentences.

2. Section decode

SectionWhat it saysWhat it means / what's missingSeverity

3. The allowance audit — each allowance vs. realistic cost at the homeowner's stated grade; the overage subtotal.

4. The silent-items list — required by the finished job, absent from the document; each one a future change order.

5. Payment schedule read — money vs. completed work over time; where the homeowner is exposed; the milestone-tied restructure to request.

6. Making bids comparable — the question set to send every bidder so the numbers finally mean the same thing.

End the artifact with, verbatim: "This is a plain-language reading, not legal/financial advice — laws vary by jurisdiction; confirm anything load-bearing with a qualified professional."

Quality Checks

  • Every allowance is audited against the homeowner's stated grade, with the overage totaled
  • The finished-job reconciliation produces an explicit silent-items list
  • Payment-schedule exposure is shown as money-ahead-of-work over time
  • Jurisdiction-dependent items (deposit caps, permits, liens) are flagged verify-locally
  • Bid comparisons align scope first, price second
  • The disclaimer line appears verbatim in the artifact

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not judge the contractor's quality or honesty — decode the document; references and licensing checks are separate homework (name them)
  • Do not treat the lowest bid as the best or the worst — un-specified scope explains most bid gaps; make it comparable first
  • Do not invent local costs or code requirements — ranges to verify, not facts
  • Do not soften the allowance finding — a teaser allowance is the oldest trick in the bid
  • Do not let "we'll figure it out as we go" stand anywhere money is involved — that sentence is a time-and-materials contract in disguise

Based On

Owner-side bid review practice — finished-job reconciliation, allowance auditing, payment-risk sequencing, bid leveling.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Is this contractor quote fair?"
  • "Decode this renovation bid."
  • "What should be in a contractor contract?"
  • "Why do these three bids differ so much?"

© mohitagw15856, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/home-contractor-quote-decoder of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/worked-example.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Home Contractor Quote Decoder

What does Home Contractor Quote Decoder do?

Decode a home renovation or repair quote — allowances that aren't prices, exclusions that become change orders, payment schedules that shift risk, and what a comparable-bids check should cover. Home Contractor Quote Decoder is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Decode a home renovation or repair quote — allowances that aren't prices, exclusions that become change orders, payment schedules that shift risk, and what a comparable-bids check should cover.

When should I use Home Contractor Quote Decoder?

Home Contractor Quote Decoder fits situations like: someone asks is this contractor quote fair; decode this renovation bid; what should be in a contractor contract; why do these three bids differ so much.

How do I install Home Contractor Quote Decoder in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Home Contractor Quote Decoder in Codex?

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

Can I use Home Contractor Quote Decoder 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 home-contractor-quote-decoder -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/home-contractor-quote-decoder, .gemini/skills/home-contractor-quote-decoder, .github/skills/home-contractor-quote-decoder and .opencode/skills/home-contractor-quote-decoder in your project.

What does Home Contractor Quote Decoder need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Home Contractor Quote Decoder is instructions for the agent only.

Does Home Contractor Quote Decoder 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 Home Contractor Quote Decoder 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 Home Contractor Quote Decoder use?

Home Contractor Quote Decoder 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 Home Contractor Quote Decoder use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.3k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Home Contractor Quote Decoder?

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.