Agent skill

Moving Company Estimate Decoder

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Decode a moving company estimate — binding vs non-binding, the weight and cubic-feet games, valuation vs insurance, and the red flags that precede hostage-load stories.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Moving Company Estimate Decoder

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill moving-company-estimate-decoder -a claude-code

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

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

At a glance

Decode a moving company estimate — binding vs non-binding, the weight and cubic-feet games, valuation vs insurance, and the red flags that precede hostage-load stories.

  • Someone asks is this moving quote legit
  • 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 my moving estimate

What it does

Moving Company Estimate Decoder is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Decode a moving company estimate — binding vs non-binding, the weight and cubic-feet games, valuation vs insurance, and the red flags that precede hostage-load stories. Use when someone asks 'is this moving quote legit', 'decode my moving estimate', 'binding vs non-binding estimate', or 'how do I avoid moving scams'. Produces an estimate-type decode with what-you'll-actually-pay scenarios, ranked red flags, the valuation decode, and the questions that separate real movers from brokers.

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`).

It sits in Business, Finance & HR. 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 moving quote legit
  • Decode my moving estimate
  • Binding vs non-binding estimate
  • How do I avoid moving scams

Example prompts

  • “is this moving quote legit”
  • “decode my moving estimate”
  • “binding vs non-binding estimate”
  • “/moving-company-estimate-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

Moving Company Estimate Decoder loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 131 tokens; SKILL.md has 744 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~131
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
~2.9k

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). 744 words, ~1,530 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/moving-company-estimate-decoder/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
moving-company-estimate-decoder
description
Decode a moving company estimate — binding vs non-binding, the weight and cubic-feet games, valuation vs insurance, and the red flags that precede hostage-load stories. Use when someone asks 'is this moving quote legit', 'decode my moving estimate', 'binding vs non-binding estimate', or 'how do I avoid moving scams'. Produces an estimate-type decode with what-you'll-actually-pay scenarios, ranked red flags, the valuation decode, and the questions that separate real movers from brokers.

Moving Company Estimate Decoder Skill

The moving industry has a specialty: quotes that grow between signing and delivery, enforced by the fact that they have your stuff. The whole game is in three distinctions most customers never learn — binding vs. non-binding estimates, mover vs. broker, and "valuation" vs. insurance. This skill decodes the estimate against those three, prices the realistic worst case, and flags the patterns (lowball-then-reweigh, cubic-feet pricing, big deposits) that show up in every hostage-load story.

What This Skill Produces

  • The estimate-type decode: binding / binding-not-to-exceed / non-binding — and what each means for the final bill
  • The realistic-total scenarios: quoted vs. likely vs. worst-case, with the mechanisms that move the number
  • Ranked red flags against the known-scam patterns
  • The valuation decode (that "$0.60 per pound" line, explained on their actual goods) and the verification checklist

Required Inputs

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

  • The estimate/contract text — including the fine print pages; the type of estimate is sometimes only in the fine print.
  • The move shape — local vs. long-distance/interstate (very different regulatory pictures — flag interstate specifics as verify-with-regulator), inventory scale, dates.
  • How the estimate was made — in-home/video survey vs. phone/online guess: a non-surveyed estimate is structurally a lowball.
  • What's known about the company — name as quoted; the mover-vs-broker question gets a verification step regardless.

Framework: Severity Scale

  • 🔴 Walk-away or fix-before-signing territory — non-binding estimates on long-distance moves (the reweigh is where the number grows — ask for binding-not-to-exceed), pricing by cubic feet instead of weight on interstate moves (volume is unauditable and famously inflatable), large deposits (reputable movers typically take payment at delivery — a big up-front deposit is the pattern's opening move), no in-home/video survey behind a firm-sounding number, the paperwork naming a different company than the one quoted (broker handoff — you don't know who's showing up), "we'll do the inventory on moving day."
  • 🟡 Clarify before signing — accessorial fees left open (stairs, long-carry, shuttle — get them priced now), delivery window vs. date and the per-day delay terms, storage-in-transit pricing if dates might slip, the released-value valuation default (that's the $0.60/lb line — compute it: a 10-lb laptop = $6) vs. full-value protection pricing.
  • 🟢 Standard — surveyed estimate, binding-not-to-exceed, payment at delivery, itemized accessorials, clear valuation options; a clean quote deserves the label.

Always compute the valuation reality: released value on their heaviest-cheap and lightest-expensive items (the sofa is overprotected; the laptop is worth $6), and the full-value-protection premium as the actual insurance decision. Verification checklist regardless of severity: regulator registration lookup for interstate movers (name the type of lookup, flag as jurisdiction-specific), the same-company-name check across quote/contract/truck, and recent reviews under the exact legal name.

Output Format

Show full SKILL.md (310 more words)Show less
Moving Estimate Decode: [route, date — company as quoted]

1. The verdict — estimate type, the realistic total range, and the single most important fix (usually: convert to binding-not-to-exceed or walk).

2. The scenarios — quoted / likely / worst-case, each with the mechanism that gets the bill there.

3. Decode table

TermWhat the document saysWhat it means at deliverySeverity

4. 🚩 Red flags, ranked — quoted text, the scam-pattern it matches, the fix or the walk-away call.

5. The valuation decision — released value computed on their goods vs. full-value protection cost; framed as the one genuine insurance choice in the document.

6. Verification checklist + questions — registration lookup, name-match check, survey request, deposit terms, accessorial pricing in writing.

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

  • The estimate type is identified and its bill-at-delivery consequence stated first
  • Scenarios include the mechanism, not just the number
  • Released-value valuation is computed on the user's actual items
  • Interstate-specific rules are flagged verify-with-regulator, not asserted
  • The broker-vs-mover question gets a verification step even when nothing looks wrong
  • The disclaimer line appears verbatim in the artifact

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not treat all movers as scammers — the industry's honest majority is exactly why the pattern-matching works; decode, don't panic
  • Do not accept "binding" verbally — the word must be on the document with a total
  • Do not let cubic-feet pricing pass on a long-distance move without its flag
  • Do not confuse valuation with insurance — the document does that on purpose; undo it
  • Do not skip the name-match check — the quote, contract, and truck naming three companies is the whole story in one detail

Based On

Consumer-side moving-contract review — estimate-type triage, scam-pattern matching, valuation math, verification sequencing.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Is this moving quote legit?"
  • "Decode my moving estimate."
  • "How do I avoid moving scams?"

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/moving-company-estimate-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 Moving Company Estimate Decoder

What does Moving Company Estimate Decoder do?

Decode a moving company estimate — binding vs non-binding, the weight and cubic-feet games, valuation vs insurance, and the red flags that precede hostage-load stories. Moving Company Estimate Decoder is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Decode a moving company estimate — binding vs non-binding, the weight and cubic-feet games, valuation vs insurance, and the red flags that precede hostage-load stories.

When should I use Moving Company Estimate Decoder?

Moving Company Estimate Decoder fits situations like: someone asks is this moving quote legit; decode my moving estimate; binding vs non-binding estimate; how do I avoid moving scams.

How do I install Moving Company Estimate Decoder in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Moving Company Estimate Decoder in Codex?

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

Can I use Moving Company Estimate 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 moving-company-estimate-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/moving-company-estimate-decoder, .gemini/skills/moving-company-estimate-decoder, .github/skills/moving-company-estimate-decoder and .opencode/skills/moving-company-estimate-decoder in your project.

What does Moving Company Estimate Decoder need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Moving Company Estimate Decoder is instructions for the agent only.

Does Moving Company Estimate 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 Moving Company Estimate 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 Moving Company Estimate Decoder use?

Moving Company Estimate 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 Moving Company Estimate Decoder use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.1k 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 Moving Company Estimate 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.

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