sow-pws-builder

sow-pws-builder is a skill for Codex from 1102tools-dev/federal-contracting-skills. It costs 133 tokens per session (3,148 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid for turning decisions about a government contract into a ready-to-file Statement of Work (SOW) or Performance Work Statement (PWS) document. It also prepares separate notes for pricing and contract line items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write, revise, convert, or reduce a federal SOW, PWS, or Statement of Objectives (SOO), define acceptance checks, set performance standards, and prepare requirements before an Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE).
Why use it?
It helps turn broad project ideas into clear requirements, measurable results, and contract scope. This reduces the risk of mixing pricing details into the work description.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to write, revise, convert, or reduce a federal SOW, PWS, or Statement of Objectives (SOO), define acceptance checks, set performance standards, and prepare requirements before an Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE).

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/1102tools-dev/federal-contracting-skills/sow-pws-builder
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add 1102tools-dev/federal-contracting-skills --skill sow-pws-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/1102tools-dev/federal-contracting-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,148 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 117
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.03148
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.01574
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00630
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00315

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0e6b2ead9b03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sow-pws-builder 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_docx.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/sow-pws-builder/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SOW/PWS Builder

Overview

Turn program-office scope decisions into a contract-file-ready .docx SOW or PWS. Produce three separate outputs:

  1. The SOW/PWS .docx, containing requirements and measurable acceptance or surveillance content.
  2. A chat-only staffing handoff for the FFP, LH/T&M, or CR pricing skill.
  3. A chat-only Section B handoff with suggested CLIN structure, labor categories or estimated hours when needed, travel/ODC lines, and the total ceiling-price input for T&M/LH.

Never combine the handoffs with the document. FAR 37.602(b)(1) directs agencies, to the maximum extent practicable, to describe performance work by required results rather than method or hours. FAR 16.601 requires fixed hourly rates by labor category for T&M/LH and an overall ceiling price, but it does not require a labor-category ceiling-hours table inside the PWS. Keep pricing structure in Section B unless the user supplies a controlling solicitation template that places it elsewhere.

No external MCP server is required.

Product quality default

Make the PWS/SOW read like a concise acquisition-file deliverable, not a process transcript. Its first page must identify the mission need, the performance decision it supports, the material operating assumptions, and the next acquisition-team action. Use a requirement-specific title, a short executive purpose block, and distinct visual hierarchy appropriate to the document type. Put detailed evidence and source notes in a compact appendix only when they affect a requirement; never let them crowd out executable requirements. This does not permit staffing, SOC, CLIN, pricing, or IGCE content inside the document.

Load supporting files only when needed:

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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. 11d ago First seen · 199 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 0e6b2ead9b03

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sow-pws-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository 1102tools-dev/federal-contracting-skills (25 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 3,148 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 2026-08-30.

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