Agent skill

Trade Quote Builder

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Build a trade quote that wins the job and protects the margin — materials and labor itemized, assumptions and exclusions stated, variations priced by rule, and the professional one-page layout…

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Install Trade Quote Builder

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill trade-quote-builder -a claude-code

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

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

At a glance

Build a trade quote that wins the job and protects the margin — materials and labor itemized, assumptions and exclusions stated, variations priced by rule, and the professional one-page layout…

  • Works in 5 steps: Cost the job backwards from the tasks.… → Materials at today's prices + waste.… → Write the exclusions like they'll be… → …
  • A tradesperson says help me quote this job
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework and Output Format, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Trade Quote Builder is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Build a trade quote that wins the job and protects the margin — materials and labor itemized, assumptions and exclusions stated, variations priced by rule, and the professional one-page layout customers trust. Use when a tradesperson says 'help me quote this job', 'I keep losing money on jobs', 'customer wants a price for X', or 'how do I quote a day rate vs fixed'. Produces a ready-to-send quote plus the internal costing sheet behind it.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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

  • A tradesperson says help me quote this job
  • I keep losing money on jobs
  • Customer wants a price for X
  • How do I quote a day rate vs fixed

Example prompts

  • “help me quote this job”
  • “I keep losing money on jobs”
  • “customer wants a price for X”
  • “/trade-quote-builder”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Cost the job backwards from the tasks. Break the work into visible
  2. Materials at today's prices + waste. List materials with a waste
  3. Write the exclusions like they'll be tested. They will. Standard set
  4. Price variations by rule, in the quote. "Additional work agreed in
  5. Layout for trust. Business name/contact · scope · price (itemized or

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

Trade Quote Builder loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 116 tokens; SKILL.md has 636 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~116
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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). 636 words, ~1,370 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/trade-quote-builder/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
trade-quote-builder
description
Build a trade quote that wins the job and protects the margin — materials and labor itemized, assumptions and exclusions stated, variations priced by rule, and the professional one-page layout customers trust. Use when a tradesperson says 'help me quote this job', 'I keep losing money on jobs', 'customer wants a price for X', or 'how do I quote a day rate vs fixed'. Produces a ready-to-send quote plus the internal costing sheet behind it.

Trade Quote Builder Skill

Most trade quotes lose money in the writing, not the doing: labor guessed optimistic, materials priced from memory, and — the killer — no exclusions line, so "while you're here, could you also…" becomes free work. A professional quote is two documents: the internal costing sheet (honest hours × real rate + materials + margin) and the customer's one-pager (clear scope, what's included, what isn't, how variations get priced). This skill builds both, and it prices the variation rule in advance — because the profitable jobs are the ones where "extra" was defined before it happened.

What This Skill Produces

  • The internal costing sheet: labor (tasks × honest hours × rate), materials with waste factor, plant/access costs, margin — the math the customer never sees but the price depends on
  • The customer quote, one page: scope in plain words, itemized or fixed-price sections, inclusions, exclusions (the load-bearing paragraph), variation rule, validity window, payment terms pointer
  • A fixed-vs-day-rate recommendation for this specific job with the reasoning (unknowns push day-rate; defined scope earns fixed)
  • The assumption flags: what was priced sight-unseen and what a site visit must confirm

Required Inputs

Ask for (if not already provided):

  • The job as the customer described it, plus what the tradesperson saw/knows (photos described, site visit notes, access issues)
  • Their real numbers: hourly/day rate they need (not the one they say when nervous), typical material suppliers, travel distance
  • The unknowns: what can't be known until opened up (walls, boards, wiring)
  • Local context: is this a price-sensitive job or a reputation job?

Framework

  1. Cost the job backwards from the tasks. Break the work into visible tasks, each with honest hours (add the forgotten ones: setup, protection, cleanup, disposal runs, the merchant trip). Optimism in hours is the #1 margin leak — challenge any task estimated in round afternoons.
  2. Materials at today's prices + waste. List materials with a waste factor (10–15% typical for boards/tiles; note it, don't hide it) and "prices held for X days" — supplier prices move; the validity window is protection, not decoration.
  3. Write the exclusions like they'll be tested. They will. Standard set: anything not listed in scope · faults discovered once opened up (priced as variation) · moving furniture/other trades' work · parking/permits. Specific beats general: "excludes repairs to joists found rotten" wins arguments "excludes unforeseen work" loses.
  4. Price variations by rule, in the quote. "Additional work agreed in writing at £X/hour + materials before it starts." This single line converts scope creep from a fight into a form.
  5. Layout for trust. Business name/contact · scope · price (itemized or fixed with sections) · inclusions/exclusions · variation rule · validity · payment terms (see [[stage-payment-shield]]) · insurance/certification lines where the trade has them. Flag: certification claims must be real — never draft one the user didn't state.
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Output Format

## Internal costing (yours only)
| Task | Hours | Rate | Labor | ‖ Materials | Qty+waste | Cost |
Subtotals · margin % · price floor: [the number below which this job loses]

## The quote (send this)
[One page, structured as above, in plain confident language]

## Fixed vs day rate for THIS job
[Recommendation + why · which unknowns would flip it]

## Confirm before starting
[The sight-unseen assumptions a site visit must check]

Quality Checks

  • Every task's hours include setup/cleanup/disposal — the forgotten hours are named individually
  • The exclusions section is specific to this job, not boilerplate alone
  • The variation rule appears with a real rate and "in writing before it starts"
  • The price floor is computed and stated internally — the user knows the number below which walking away wins
  • No certifications, insurance, or guarantee claims invented — only what the user stated goes on the quote

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not price to win by shaving hours — the costing sheet is honest even when the final price discounts; know what the discount costs
  • Do not bury exclusions in small print tone — they're customer-facing clarity, not gotchas
  • Do not quote firm on sight-unseen unknowns; that's what assumption flags and variations are for
  • Do not use legalistic language a homeowner distrusts — plain and firm wins jobs

[[stage-payment-shield]] for deposits and payment stages; [[home-contractor-quote-decoder]] is the customer's side of this table — write quotes that survive it; [[late-invoice-escalation]] for afterwards.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Help me quote this job."
  • "I keep losing money on jobs."
  • "How do I quote a day rate vs fixed?"

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/trade-quote-builder of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Trade Quote Builder

What does Trade Quote Builder do?

Build a trade quote that wins the job and protects the margin — materials and labor itemized, assumptions and exclusions stated, variations priced by rule, and the professional one-page layout…. Trade Quote Builder is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Build a trade quote that wins the job and protects the margin — materials and labor itemized, assumptions and exclusions stated, variations priced by rule, and the professional one-page layout customers trust.

When should I use Trade Quote Builder?

Trade Quote Builder fits situations like: A tradesperson says help me quote this job; I keep losing money on jobs; customer wants a price for X; how do I quote a day rate vs fixed.

How do I install Trade Quote Builder in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Trade Quote Builder in Codex?

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

Can I use Trade Quote Builder 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 trade-quote-builder -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/trade-quote-builder, .gemini/skills/trade-quote-builder, .github/skills/trade-quote-builder and .opencode/skills/trade-quote-builder in your project.

What does Trade Quote Builder need to run?

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

Does Trade Quote Builder 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 Trade Quote Builder 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 Trade Quote Builder use?

Trade Quote Builder 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 Trade Quote Builder use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.5k 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 Trade Quote Builder?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Trade Quote Builder: Margin Trading (LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills, 2.2k stars), Trade Quote Builder (OneWave-AI/claude-skills, 336 stars), Derivatives Trading Portfolio Margin (LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills, 2.2k stars) and Agent Trading Predictor (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Trade Quote Builder?

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.