salary

salary is a command for Claude Code from noamseg/interview-coach-skill. It costs 0 tokens per session (5,638 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for preparing a candidate for salary discussions before a formal job offer. It focuses on the first compensation numbers mentioned during applications, recruiter calls, and later interview stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare answers about expected or current pay, respond to compensation questions at different hiring stages, and decide when to share or deflect salary information.
Why use it?
The first number can influence the rest of the negotiation, even when it is below the market rate. This helps candidates delay or handle compensation questions without setting an unwanted starting point.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md). Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to prepare answers about expected or current pay, respond to…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/noamseg/interview-coach-skill/salary
About the project

Interview Coach is a Claude Code-based coaching system for the full job-search process, including job-description analysis, application materials, interview practice, answer evaluation, and offer negotiation. It is intended for job seekers who want tailored feedback and structured preparation based on their own experience and interview transcripts. Its catalogue entry consists of commands, a setting, and a skill that provide the coaching workflows.

noamseg/interview-coach-skill · 2,124 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noamseg/interview-coach-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,638 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 $0.00000 $0.05638
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02819
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00564

Measured 7d ago against content hash 0cb76653f7a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

salary 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 7d 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.

references/commands/salary.md · 332 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 332 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

salary — Early/Mid-Process Comp Coaching

How Comp Conversations Actually Work (Reference Knowledge)

The Anchoring Effect: The first number mentioned in a compensation conversation becomes the anchor. If a candidate says "$120K" in a recruiter screen, the final offer will orbit $120K — regardless of market rate. This makes the recruiter screen the highest-leverage comp moment. By the time negotiate fires (post-offer), the anchor is set. salary coaches the moment that sets the anchor.

When Comp Comes Up (the comp conversation timeline):

  1. Application form: "Expected salary" field. First anchor risk.
  2. Recruiter screen: "What are your salary expectations?" or "What's your current compensation?" Highest-stakes comp moment.
  3. Mid-process: Hiring manager mentions range informally, or recruiter checks comp alignment.
  4. Pre-offer: Recruiter discusses comp structure, tests whether candidate will accept.
  5. Formal offernegotiate command handles this stage.

salary covers stages 1-4. negotiate covers stage 5. The handoff is explicit.

The Deflection vs. Disclosure Tradeoff:

  • Deflecting ("I'd like to learn more about the role first") works best early but becomes less tenable as the process progresses.
  • Over-deflecting can signal difficulty, evasiveness, or game-playing.
  • Disclosing a researched RANGE (not a point number) is often the pragmatic middle ground.
  • Key principle: let the company share their range first when possible. The party that names a number first is at a disadvantage. See Dragova's specific deflection scripts in Step 4 below.
  • Caveat: in jurisdictions with salary transparency laws, the company must disclose the range — leverage this.
  • Mine for intel during interviews: Dragova advises treating every conversation with the company as an intelligence-gathering opportunity. Strategic questions like "What's the biggest priority for the team right now?", "Why is this role open?", and "What's the biggest challenge for someone stepping into this role?" provide negotiation ammunition later — and make the candidate appear engaged rather than evasive. What recruiters say when pushing for a number: "If you give me your number, I will make it happen for you." What they mean: "I'll get you something lower, but kinda close to what you asked for." Stand firm.

Read the full file on GitHub · 332 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. 7d ago First seen · 332 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0cb76653f7a9

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salary is a command published in the GitHub repository noamseg/interview-coach-skill (2,124 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 5,638 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.