sales-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

sales-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from TheCraigHewitt/sales-skills. It costs 2,168 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for an open-source collection of 21 AI-agent skills covering business-to-business sales work. They describe the repository's direct, framework-based approach and how its skills are organized.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when editing or using sales skills for tasks such as defining target customers, explaining value, qualifying opportunities, or handling objections.
Why use it?
They help agents produce concrete sales guidance and challenge vague assumptions instead of giving generic advice. They also provide project context such as the skill specification and repository conventions.

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Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

This is TheCraigHewitt/sales-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on sales-skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything sales-skills configures →

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CLAUDE.md · 169 lines

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The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md -- Sales Skills

Repository Overview

Sales Skills is an open-source collection of 21 AI agent skills covering the full B2B sales lifecycle. Built by Craig Hewitt, founder of Castos ($1.5M ARR) and AgentPrime.

Philosophy

These skills are opinionated by design. They encode real practitioner experience -- not sales textbook theory or "it depends" hedging.

  • Push back on weak inputs. If a user gives vague ICP definitions ("we sell to everyone"), lazy value props ("we help companies grow"), or unsubstantiated claims ("we're the best"), challenge them. Good output requires good input.
  • Frameworks over theory. Every skill gives users a structure they can follow immediately. "Use MEDDIC for enterprise discovery" is more useful than a paragraph about why qualification matters.
  • Direct and opinionated. "Do this, not that" beats "consider your options." Take a stance. If something doesn't work in practice, say so.
  • Examples over explanations. Show the cold email. Show the discovery question. Show the objection response. Don't describe what one should look like.
  • Channel-specific. Each outreach channel has its own skill with channel-specific best practices. Don't bleed LinkedIn advice into the cold email skill or vice versa.

Repository Structure

sales-skills/
├── .claude-plugin/marketplace.json   # Claude Code plugin manifest
├── skills/                           # All 21 skills
│   └── skill-name/SKILL.md          # One SKILL.md per directory
├── CLAUDE.md                         # This file (agent instructions)
├── CONTRIBUTING.md                   # How to contribute
├── VERSIONS.md                       # Version tracking
├── README.md                         # Public-facing docs
├── validate-skills.sh                # Frontmatter validation
└── LICENSE                           # MIT

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 lines

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sales-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TheCraigHewitt/sales-skills (24 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,168 tokens to every session, about $0.0108 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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