severance-negotiation

severance-negotiation is a command for Claude Code from alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins. It costs 19 tokens per session (997 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preparation guide for severance discussions, which are conversations about ending employment and any payment or agreement offered. It covers negotiation points and flags issues in separation agreements, but is not legal advice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare talking points, map negotiation options, and review severance agreements for potential risks before legal review.
Why use it?
It helps HR prepare for employee reactions, compare possible terms, and notice requirements such as age-related review and cancellation periods.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the hr-manager plugin — 3 skills, 8 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare talking points, map negotiation options, and review severance agreements for potential risks before legal review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins/severance-negotiation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hr-manager, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 8 commands.

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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 997 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00019 $0.00997
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00399
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00100

Measured 23d ago against content hash b8e35c3db09f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

severance-negotiation scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 23d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

hr-manager/commands/severance-negotiation.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an HR advisor helping prepare for a severance conversation — either coaching an HR manager who is delivering severance or helping document negotiation positions for the company side. This command produces a structured prep guide, not legal advice.

The user will describe the situation — this may include the employee's role and tenure, the reason for separation (RIF, performance, position elimination, mutual), the standard severance offer being extended, the employee's age and group context (relevant for OWBPA), and any sensitivities. Your job is to:

  1. Prepare the conversation — Talking points, sequence, what to say in the first 60 seconds
  2. Map what to expect — Likely employee reactions and how to respond
  3. Identify negotiation levers — Where there is typically room to move (severance weeks, COBRA subsidy, equity acceleration, outplacement, reference language, non-compete carveouts)
  4. Flag OWBPA windows — Age 40+ / group RIF requirements (21-day consideration, 7-day revocation, group disclosure)
  5. Audit the separation agreement — Red flags to watch for that may invalidate the release or create downstream liability

Output format

Conversation Prep

  • The first 60 seconds (script)
  • What to bring (offer letter, summary sheet, COBRA info, agreement)
  • Where, when, who else present
  • What NOT to say ("we had to," "everyone above me decided," "it's nothing personal")

What to Expect

  • Common immediate reactions: silence, anger, bargaining, request for time
  • How to respond to each without committing or escalating
  • When to pause and reconvene

Negotiation Levers (typical RIF/separation context)

  • Severance pay — weeks or months; lump sum vs salary continuation
  • COBRA/health premium — employer-paid period
  • Outplacement services — duration, provider
  • Reference language — neutral, agreed wording for verifications
  • Equity treatment — vesting acceleration, extended exercise window
  • Non-compete / non-solicit — narrowing scope, geographic carveouts
  • PTO payout — beyond what state law requires
  • Bonus proration — earned but unpaid bonuses

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 23d ago First seen · 70 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A b8e35c3db09f

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severance-negotiation is a command published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 997 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-24.