Agent skill

Severance Agreement Decoder

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Decode a severance agreement before you sign it — what you're giving up, what's negotiable, and the deadlines that decide your leverage.

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Install Severance Agreement Decoder

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill severance-agreement-decoder -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills severance-agreement-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/severance-agreement-decoder .claude/skills/severance-agreement-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
severance-agreement-decoder
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
541 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Decode a severance agreement before you sign it — what you're giving up, what's negotiable, and the deadlines that decide your leverage.

  • Asked to decode my severance
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: What to Walk and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Is this severance offer normal

What it does

Severance Agreement Decoder is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Decode a severance agreement before you sign it — what you're giving up, what's negotiable, and the deadlines that decide your leverage. Use when asked to decode my severance, is this severance offer normal, review my separation agreement, or should I sign this release. Produces a clause-by-clause decode with ranked red flags, the money math (severance vs what you're releasing), the consideration-period clock, and the asks worth making.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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 to decode my severance
  • Is this severance offer normal
  • Review my separation agreement
  • Should I sign this release

Example prompts

  • “re giving up, what”
  • “/severance-agreement-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

Severance Agreement Decoder loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 117 tokens; SKILL.md has 541 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~117
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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). 541 words, ~1,097 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/severance-agreement-decoder/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
severance-agreement-decoder
description
Decode a severance agreement before you sign it — what you're giving up, what's negotiable, and the deadlines that decide your leverage. Use when asked to decode my severance, is this severance offer normal, review my separation agreement, or should I sign this release. Produces a clause-by-clause decode with ranked red flags, the money math (severance vs what you're releasing), the consideration-period clock, and the asks worth making.

Severance Agreement Decoder Skill

A severance agreement is a purchase: the company is buying a release of claims, and the price is negotiable exactly once — before you sign. This skill decodes what's actually being bought and sold, in the week you have to decide, while the shock is still loud.

What This Skill Produces

  • The trade, stated plainly — what they pay vs what you release, in one paragraph
  • Clause-by-clause decode with 🔴🟡🟢 severity
  • The clock — consideration and revocation windows (age-40+ rules differ), with dates computed
  • The asks worth making — ranked by success likelihood, with wording

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if not provided:

  • The agreement text (paste; partial is workable — name what's missing)
  • The basics: tenure, role, base pay, unvested equity, and the stated severance amount
  • Rough location — release enforceability and pay-out rules vary by jurisdiction; never guess it
  • What matters most — cash, healthcare runway, the narrative/references, or equity

Framework: What to Walk

  • The release scope (🔴 zone): claims released vs claims that legally can't be released (unemployment, workers' comp, agency charges — jurisdiction-dependent, flag as such); watch for release of future claims.
  • Severance math: weeks-per-year offered vs the informal norms for the role/level; whether unvested equity, bonus proration, and PTO payout appear at all — silence on any of these is an ask, not an answer.
  • The strings (🟡): non-disparagement (mutual or one-way?), cooperation clauses without time caps, re-affirmation of non-competes (sometimes new ones smuggled in — 🔴), confidentiality of the agreement itself.
  • Healthcare: COBRA-style continuation math — who pays, for how long; an extra month of employer-paid coverage is often the easiest yes in the whole negotiation.
  • The clock: consideration period (often 21/45 days where age-discrimination rules apply) and revocation window — signing early buys nothing; compute the actual dates.

Output Format

Show full SKILL.md (255 more words)Show less
Severance Decode: [company]

1. The trade: they pay [X]; you release [scope] — worth it? [the one-paragraph read] 2. Decode table | Clause | Says | Means for you | Severity | 3. 🚩 Ranked flags — each: the quoted line, the realistic cost, the fix to ask for 4. The money map — offered vs the silent items (equity, bonus, PTO, healthcare), each: present/absent/ask 5. The clock — sign-by and revoke-by dates, computed 6. The asks — 2–4, ranked by likelihood, with exact wording ("I'll sign this week if the healthcare continuation extends to six months")

End verbatim: "This is a plain-language reading, not legal advice — release law varies by jurisdiction; a one-hour employment-lawyer review before signing is usually the best money in this document."

Quality Checks

  • The trade is stated as a purchase in the first section
  • Every silent item (equity/bonus/PTO/healthcare) is flagged as present, absent, or ask
  • The consideration/revocation dates are computed, not described
  • Any NEW restrictive covenant is flagged 🔴 loudly
  • Asks come with likelihood ranking and exact wording
  • The lawyer-hour line appears verbatim

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not soften the moment — the reader just lost their job; clarity is the kindness
  • Do not treat the offer as final — it's an opening bid bought with a release
  • Do not present jurisdiction-dependent release rules as universal
  • Do not let "standard agreement" pass unexamined — standard is what companies call their preferred terms
  • Do not advise signing or refusing — decode, price, and hand the decision back with dates

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Decode my severance."
  • "Is this severance offer normal?"
  • "Review my separation agreement."
  • "Should I sign this release?"

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/severance-agreement-decoder of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Severance Agreement Decoder

What does Severance Agreement Decoder do?

Decode a severance agreement before you sign it — what you're giving up, what's negotiable, and the deadlines that decide your leverage. Severance Agreement Decoder is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Decode a severance agreement before you sign it — what you're giving up, what's negotiable, and the deadlines that decide your leverage.

When should I use Severance Agreement Decoder?

Severance Agreement Decoder fits situations like: asked to decode my severance; is this severance offer normal; review my separation agreement; should I sign this release.

How do I install Severance Agreement Decoder in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Severance Agreement Decoder in Codex?

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

Can I use Severance Agreement 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 severance-agreement-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/severance-agreement-decoder, .gemini/skills/severance-agreement-decoder, .github/skills/severance-agreement-decoder and .opencode/skills/severance-agreement-decoder in your project.

What does Severance Agreement Decoder need to run?

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

Does Severance Agreement 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 Severance Agreement 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 Severance Agreement Decoder use?

Severance Agreement 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 Severance Agreement Decoder use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.4k 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 Severance Agreement Decoder?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Severance Agreement Decoder: Document Signing (asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, 69k stars), Master Agreement Generator (affaan-m/ECC, 276k stars), Relsa Severity Assessment (K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, 48k stars) and Speculative Decoding (Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs, 13k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Severance Agreement Decoder?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,433 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 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.