Salary Negotiation Prep
davila7/claude-code-templates
Research market rates, build negotiation strategy, and create counter-offer scripts.
Plan a compensation negotiation grounded in numbers and leverage, not nerves.
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Install Salary Negotiation
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill salary-negotiation -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills salary-negotiation --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/salary-negotiation .claude/skills/salary-negotiation && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "salary-negotiation" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/salary-negotiation into .claude/skills/salary-negotiation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "salary-negotiation", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/salary-negotiationType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill salary-negotiation -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills salary-negotiation --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/salary-negotiation .agents/skills/salary-negotiation && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "salary-negotiation" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/salary-negotiation into .agents/skills/salary-negotiation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "salary-negotiation", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill salary-negotiation -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills salary-negotiation --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/salary-negotiation .cursor/skills/salary-negotiation && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "salary-negotiation" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/salary-negotiation into .cursor/skills/salary-negotiation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "salary-negotiation", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git --path skills/salary-negotiation--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill salary-negotiation -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills salary-negotiation --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/salary-negotiation .gemini/skills/salary-negotiation && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "salary-negotiation" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/salary-negotiation into .gemini/skills/salary-negotiation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "salary-negotiation", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills salary-negotiationInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill salary-negotiation -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/salary-negotiation .github/skills/salary-negotiation && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "salary-negotiation" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/salary-negotiation into .github/skills/salary-negotiation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "salary-negotiation", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill salary-negotiation -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills salary-negotiation --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/salary-negotiation .opencode/skills/salary-negotiation && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "salary-negotiation" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/salary-negotiation into .opencode/skills/salary-negotiation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "salary-negotiation", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
salary-negotiation- GitHub stars
- 1.4k
- Token cost
- ~1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 498 words
- Files
- 2 (incl. scripts)
- Skills in repo
- 1,348
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Plan a compensation negotiation grounded in numbers and leverage, not nerves.
- Asked to negotiate salary
- SKILL.md covers Required Inputs, Output Format, Programmatic Helper and Quality Checks, plus 3 more sections
- Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3
- Counter a job offer
What it does
Salary Negotiation is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Plan a compensation negotiation grounded in numbers and leverage, not nerves. Use when asked to negotiate salary, evaluate or counter a job offer, prepare for a comp conversation, or compare offers. Produces a negotiation plan — total-comp comparison across offers, your target/walk-away and BATNA, the value-based justification, the counter scripts, and what to negotiate beyond base.
Its SKILL.md is about 1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/comp_compare.py`).
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 to negotiate salary
- Counter a job offer
- Prepare for a comp conversation
Example prompts
- “/salary-negotiation”
Requirements
- Python 3
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
Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
python3
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
Salary Negotiation loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 101 tokens; SKILL.md has 498 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 498 words, ~1,034 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/salary-negotiation/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- salary-negotiation
- description
- Plan a compensation negotiation grounded in numbers and leverage, not nerves. Use when asked to negotiate salary, evaluate or counter a job offer, prepare for a comp conversation, or compare offers. Produces a negotiation plan — total-comp comparison across offers, your target/walk-away and BATNA, the value-based justification, the counter scripts, and what to negotiate beyond base.
Salary Negotiation Skill
Most people leave money on the table because they negotiate from anxiety instead of preparation. This skill replaces nerves with a plan: compare offers on total comp (not just base), set a target and a walk-away anchored to your BATNA, justify the ask with your value, and script the counter — including the levers beyond base salary that are often easier wins.
Required Inputs
Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:
- The offer(s) — base, bonus, equity, sign-on, and any other components (and competing offers, if any).
- Your situation — current comp, your BATNA (best alternative — a competing offer, staying put), and how badly each side needs the other.
- Market data — comparable ranges for the role/level/location (levels.fyi, Glassdoor, peers), if you have it.
- What matters to you — cash now vs. equity upside, flexibility, title, start date.
Output Format
Negotiation Plan: [role] at [company]
1. Total-comp comparison — never compare base-to-base. Lay out total annual comp across the offer(s) and your current/alternative (use the helper script). Equity and bonus often flip the ranking.
2. Your numbers — target (ambitious but justifiable), walk-away (below which you decline), and anchor (open slightly above target). All three anchored to market + your BATNA.
3. Leverage read — how much you have (competing offer? scarce skills? they've invested in the process?) and how to use it without bluffing.
4. The justification — the value-based case for the ask: your evidence (impact, comparable comp, the competing offer), framed collaboratively ("I'm excited; to make this work…").
5. Counter scripts — exact wording for: countering the base, responding to "that's our max", and the non-base levers (sign-on, equity, title/level, start date, remote, review timing) that often move when base can't.
6. The walk-away plan — what you do if they won't meet the walk-away (and why having decided this in advance is your real power).
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Programmatic Helper
scripts/comp_compare.py (stdlib only) computes total annual comp across offers so you compare apples to apples (equity amortised, sign-on annualised):
# offers.json: [{"name":"Offer A","base":160000,"bonus":24000,"equity_total":200000,"equity_years":4,"signing":20000}, ...]
python3 scripts/comp_compare.py offers.json
python3 scripts/comp_compare.py offers.json --signing-years 1 --jsonQuality Checks
- Offers are compared on total comp, not base alone (equity + bonus + sign-on included)
- A target, a walk-away, and an anchor are all set — and tied to market + BATNA
- The justification is value-based and evidenced, not "I need more"
- Non-base levers are included (sign-on, equity, title, start date, remote)
- The walk-away decision is made before the conversation
Anti-Patterns
- Do not compare base to base — total comp is the real number, and equity/bonus often change which offer wins
- Do not negotiate without a walk-away decided in advance — it's the source of your leverage
- Do not bluff a competing offer you don't have — if it's called, you lose all credibility
- Do not anchor low or accept the first number — the first offer almost always has room
- Do not fixate only on base — sign-on, equity, level, and start date often move when base is capped
Based On
Principled-negotiation practice (Getting to Yes — Fisher & Ury: BATNA, interests over positions) applied to compensation.
Example Trigger Phrases
- "Negotiate salary."
- "Counter a job offer."
- "Prepare for a comp conversation."
- "Compare offers."
© 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 (scripts) in skills/salary-negotiation of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.
- SKILL.md
- scripts/comp_compare.py
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0
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Questions about Salary Negotiation
What does Salary Negotiation do?
Plan a compensation negotiation grounded in numbers and leverage, not nerves. Salary Negotiation is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Plan a compensation negotiation grounded in numbers and leverage, not nerves.
When should I use Salary Negotiation?
Salary Negotiation fits situations like: asked to negotiate salary; counter a job offer; prepare for a comp conversation.
How do I install Salary Negotiation in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill salary-negotiation -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/salary-negotiation in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/salary-negotiation in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Salary Negotiation in Codex?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill salary-negotiation -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/salary-negotiation in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/salary-negotiation in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Salary Negotiation 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 salary-negotiation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/salary-negotiation, .gemini/skills/salary-negotiation, .github/skills/salary-negotiation and .opencode/skills/salary-negotiation in your project.
What does Salary Negotiation need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Salary Negotiation needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.
Does Salary Negotiation 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 Salary Negotiation 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.
What licence does Salary Negotiation use?
Salary Negotiation 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 Salary Negotiation use?
About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.1k 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 Salary Negotiation?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Salary Negotiation: Salary Negotiation Prep (davila7/claude-code-templates, 33k stars), Negotiating Compensation (RefoundAI/lenny-skills, 1.4k stars), Salary Negotiation Coach (Ssupercoder/Salary-Negotiation-Skill, 613 stars) and Grounded Citations (NousResearch/hermes-agent, 253k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Salary Negotiation?
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.