layoff-first-72-hours

layoff-first-72-hours is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 126 tokens per session (1,102 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A practical checklist for the first 72 hours after losing a job. It covers severance, benefits, final pay, references, financial support, and the start of a job search.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a layoff package, protect benefits and finances, secure references, find available support, and plan the next steps.
Why use it?
It puts time-sensitive decisions in a calm order and helps prevent panic-applying or signing an agreement without reviewing it.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it to review a layoff package, protect benefits and finances, secure references, find available support, and plan the next steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/layoff-first-72-hours
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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Per session 126 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,102 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 $0.00126 $0.01102
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00551
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00110

Measured 7d ago against content hash 5211cf5919dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

layoff-first-72-hours 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/layoff-first-72-hours/layoff-first-72-hours.mdc · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Layoff: First 72 Hours

A layoff is a shock, and the instinct is to either freeze or panic-apply to 100 jobs by nightfall. Neither helps. The first few days are for steadying yourself and handling the time-sensitive, high-value things — the severance terms, benefits continuity, references, and support you're entitled to — before the job search. This lays them out in a calm order.

What This Skill Produces

  • A first-days checklist — the practical moves in priority order, spread over days, not a same-day frenzy
  • Package review — understanding the severance/redundancy terms, and what may be negotiable before you sign
  • Benefits & finances — protecting health coverage, understanding final pay/accruals, and filing for any unemployment/support you're entitled to
  • Relationships to secure now — references, recommendations, and contacts while goodwill is fresh
  • Emotional footing — permission to feel it, and a note that your worth isn't the layoff
  • A bridge to the search — how to transition into job-hunting from a steady base

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The situation — when, whether there's a severance/package, and any documents to sign
  • Your finances — runway, obligations, and how urgent income is
  • Benefits — health coverage and anything tied to the job
  • Region — affects support/unemployment and rights
  • Your state — steady enough to plan, or in shock (pace accordingly)

Framework: Steady First, Then The High-Value Moves

  1. Don't sign or panic-apply immediately. Give yourself a beat. Severance documents can often wait a little, and rushed applications are weak ones.
  2. Understand (and maybe negotiate) the package. Read the severance/redundancy terms; some elements (notice, payout, references, timing) may be negotiable — consider advice before signing anything binding.
  3. Protect benefits and cash flow. Sort health coverage continuity, confirm final pay/accrued leave, and file for unemployment/support promptly (these have timelines).
  4. Secure relationships while warm. Ask for references, LinkedIn recommendations, and keep contacts before people scatter — goodwill fades.
  5. Tend to your head. A layoff is usually about the business, not your worth — build in support and routine before the search grind.
  6. Then bridge to the search. Move into job-hunting from a steady, organized base — resume, targets, and outreach — rather than a frightened scramble.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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 · 72 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 5211cf5919dc

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layoff-first-72-hours is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,352 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 1,102 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.