first-hire-plan

first-hire-plan is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 133 tokens per session (1,106 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A first-hire planning guide for a small business deciding whether to hire, which role to fill, and whether to use a contractor or employee.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps assess hiring readiness, define a role, compare worker arrangements, evaluate candidates, make an offer, and plan onboarding.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of handing off the wrong work or missing the tax, payroll, insurance, employment, and legal responsibilities that come with hiring.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit It helps assess hiring readiness, define a role, compare worker arrangements, evaluate candidates, make an offer, and plan onboarding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/first-hire-plan
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,352 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 133 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,106 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 $0.00133 $0.01106
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00553
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00111

Measured 7d ago against content hash c73f0b4a1117, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

first-hire-plan 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.

exports/cursor/pm-career/first-hire-plan/first-hire-plan.mdc · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

First-Hire Plan

Your first hire is a big, nervy step — get the role wrong or the classification wrong and it's costly. This helps you decide whether you're ready, what to hand off first, and whether a contractor or employee fits — then gives a simple, fair hiring process for someone who's never done it, plus the obligations to know about. It flags that employment, tax, and legal rules are local and this isn't legal advice.

What This Skill Produces

  • A readiness & role read — whether now's the time, and which work to offload first (the highest-leverage or most-draining tasks)
  • Contractor vs. employee — the trade-offs for your situation (cost, control, commitment, classification rules) and a recommendation
  • A lightweight hiring process — defining the role, sourcing candidates, a fair and simple evaluation, and making an offer
  • Obligations awareness — the tax, payroll, insurance, and legal responsibilities a first hire triggers (flagged to verify locally)
  • Onboarding basics — setting the person up to succeed in the first weeks
  • A boundary — employment/tax/legal specifics are local; consult a professional

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The business — what you do, size, and where you're stretched
  • The need — what work you'd hand off, and how much of it
  • Budget & commitment — what you can afford, and how steady the need is
  • Contractor or employee leaning — any preference or constraint
  • Location — for the (varying) employment/tax obligations

Framework: Right Time, Right Role, Right Classification

  1. Check readiness and pick the role. Confirm the workload and budget justify a hire, then define the highest-leverage thing to hand off first — don't hire a vague "help."
  2. Decide contractor vs. employee honestly. Weigh cost, control, commitment, and — critically — classification rules (misclassifying an employee as a contractor is a real risk). Recommend the fit.
  3. Define the role clearly. A concrete role description (responsibilities, must-haves, success in 90 days) makes sourcing and evaluation fair and effective.
  4. Run a simple, fair process. Source candidates, evaluate on relevant signals (a small work sample beats gut feel), and make a clear offer.
  5. Know the obligations. A first hire can trigger payroll, tax withholding, insurance, and legal duties — flag these to set up correctly, verified locally.
  6. Onboard deliberately. Set expectations, tools, and early wins so the hire actually reduces your load.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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 · 71 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A c73f0b4a1117

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first-hire-plan is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,352 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 1,106 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-03.