Agent skill

Layoff Financial Triage

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

The first-72-hours money plan after a layoff — runway computed, deadlines caught, bleeding stopped, in priority order.

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Install Layoff Financial Triage

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill layoff-financial-triage -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills layoff-financial-triage --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/layoff-financial-triage .claude/skills/layoff-financial-triage && 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
layoff-financial-triage
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
505 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

The first-72-hours money plan after a layoff — runway computed, deadlines caught, bleeding stopped, in priority order.

  • Works in 5 steps: Runway before feelings: runway = liquid… → Deadlines are the emergency:… → Triage tiers: Keep (housing, food,… → …
  • Asked I just got laid off what do I do about money
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework and Output Format, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Layoff Financial Triage is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. The first-72-hours money plan after a layoff — runway computed, deadlines caught, bleeding stopped, in priority order. Use when asked I just got laid off what do I do about money, build my layoff budget, how long can I last, or what needs to happen this week. Produces the runway number, the deadline list (healthcare, unemployment filing, equity exercise windows), the spending triage, and a one-week action checklist.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k 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 I just got laid off what do I do about money
  • Build my layoff budget
  • How long can I last
  • What needs to happen this week

Example prompts

  • “/layoff-financial-triage”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Runway before feelings: runway = liquid cash ÷ triage-level monthly spend. Compute it in the first section — an actual number beats dread…
  2. Deadlines are the emergency: unemployment filing (file week one — eligibility often starts at filing, not at layoff), healthcare election…
  3. Triage tiers: Keep (housing, food, insurance, internet) · Pause (subscriptions, memberships — chain to subscription-auditor) ·…
  4. Do NOT list: panic-selling investments, raiding retirement (penalties + taxes — flag as last-resort with the real cost computed), and…
  5. Income bridges, honestly ranked: unemployment first (it's insurance, not charity — say so), severance negotiation (chain to…

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

Layoff Financial Triage loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 111 tokens; SKILL.md has 505 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~111
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

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). 505 words, ~1,047 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/layoff-financial-triage/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
layoff-financial-triage
description
The first-72-hours money plan after a layoff — runway computed, deadlines caught, bleeding stopped, in priority order. Use when asked I just got laid off what do I do about money, build my layoff budget, how long can I last, or what needs to happen this week. Produces the runway number, the deadline list (healthcare, unemployment filing, equity exercise windows), the spending triage, and a one-week action checklist.

Layoff Financial Triage Skill

The first week after a layoff has three jobs: know the runway number, catch the deadlines that expire silently, and stop the optional bleeding. Grief and job-searching come after solvency. This skill runs the triage in that order — numbers first, calmly, with dates.

What This Skill Produces

  • The runway number — months of survival at triage spending, computed
  • The deadline list — everything with a clock: unemployment filing, healthcare election, equity exercise windows, 401(k) loan repayment triggers
  • Spending triage — keep / pause / cancel, with the monthly recovery totaled
  • The one-week checklist — ordered, dated, small enough to do while stunned

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • Cash and near-cash — checking, savings, anything liquid (not retirement)
  • Monthly spend — rough is fine; the triage refines it
  • The exit terms — final pay date, severance if any, healthcare end date, unvested/vested equity and its exercise window
  • Household — partner income, dependents, anything on employer benefits (insurance, phone, disability)
  • Jurisdiction — unemployment rules and timelines vary; never guess

Framework

  1. Runway before feelings: runway = liquid cash ÷ triage-level monthly spend. Compute it in the first section — an actual number beats dread every time.
  2. Deadlines are the emergency: unemployment filing (file week one — eligibility often starts at filing, not at layoff), healthcare election windows, equity exercise windows (the classic five-figure silent expiry — bold it), FSA spend-down, 401(k) loan acceleration.
  3. Triage tiers: Keep (housing, food, insurance, internet) · Pause (subscriptions, memberships — chain to subscription-auditor) · Cancel/renegotiate (the discretionary layer). Total the recovery per month.
  4. Do NOT list: panic-selling investments, raiding retirement (penalties + taxes — flag as last-resort with the real cost computed), and paying off low-interest debt early "to feel lighter."
  5. Income bridges, honestly ranked: unemployment first (it's insurance, not charity — say so), severance negotiation (chain to severance-agreement-decoder), then gig/contract stopgaps.

Output Format

Financial Triage: [date]

Runway: [n.n] months at triage spending ([current] → [triage] $/mo)

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The clock ⏰

DeadlineDateWhat expiresAction

Spending triage

| Item | $/mo | Verdict | Note | Recovered: $[n]/mo → runway extends to [n.n] months

Do-not list

[The panic moves, each with its real cost]

This week, in order

Mon: … Tue: … (file unemployment day 1–2, always)

Quality Checks

  • The runway number leads, computed both pre- and post-triage
  • Unemployment filing appears in the first two days of the checklist
  • Equity exercise windows are surfaced and bolded if present
  • Every triage verdict shows its monthly recovery; the total is stated
  • Retirement-raiding appears only in the do-not list with its true cost

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not open with reassurance — open with the number; calm comes from arithmetic
  • Do not let shame delay the unemployment filing — it's an insurance claim on premiums already paid
  • Do not cut health insurance to extend runway — one ER visit undoes years; it's in Keep
  • Do not build the plan on a hoped-for job date — runway assumes zero income until real income exists
  • Do not moralize about past spending — triage looks forward only

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "I just got laid off what do I do about money."
  • "Build my layoff budget."
  • "How long can I last?"
  • "What needs to happen this week?"

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/layoff-financial-triage of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Layoff Financial Triage

What does Layoff Financial Triage do?

The first-72-hours money plan after a layoff — runway computed, deadlines caught, bleeding stopped, in priority order. Layoff Financial Triage is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. The first-72-hours money plan after a layoff — runway computed, deadlines caught, bleeding stopped, in priority order.

When should I use Layoff Financial Triage?

Layoff Financial Triage fits situations like: asked I just got laid off what do I do about money; build my layoff budget; how long can I last; what needs to happen this week.

How do I install Layoff Financial Triage in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Layoff Financial Triage in Codex?

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

Can I use Layoff Financial Triage 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 layoff-financial-triage -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/layoff-financial-triage, .gemini/skills/layoff-financial-triage, .github/skills/layoff-financial-triage and .opencode/skills/layoff-financial-triage in your project.

What does Layoff Financial Triage need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Layoff Financial Triage is instructions for the agent only.

Does Layoff Financial Triage 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 Layoff Financial Triage 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 Layoff Financial Triage use?

Layoff Financial Triage 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 Layoff Financial Triage use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k 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 Layoff Financial Triage?

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Who maintains Layoff Financial Triage?

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.