What is vendor-management?

A vendor-review skill for assessing third-party software and service providers. It scores service performance, checks promised service levels, and classifies supplier risk, where an SLA is a contract’s target for service quality or availability.

Use it for vendor scorecards, quarterly supplier reviews, SLA checks, third-party risk reviews, and renewal decisions for important providers.

It helps replace ad hoc renewal decisions with documented reviews. Teams can see which vendors are meeting commitments, creating risk, or should be kept, reviewed, or replaced.

vendor-management — Skill for Claude Code by alirezarezvani

About the project

claude-skills is a large collection of reusable skills, commands, plugins, and supporting resources for coding agents across engineering, business, research, compliance, and productivity work. It is used by people who want agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Cursor to follow specialized workflows. The catalogue contains selected skills and settings from the collection.

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 28,607 stars · on GitHub · alirezarezvani.medium.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill vendor-management

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install business-operations-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 8 commands, 1 agent.

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README.md

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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,718 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00126	$0.02718
Opus 5.5	$0.00050	$0.01087
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00025	$0.00544
Haiku 4.5	$0.00013	$0.00272

Measured today against content hash 9f4458f1fc25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vendor-management 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/sla_compliance_tracker.py, scripts/vendor_risk_classifier.py, scripts/vendor_scorer.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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

vendor-management — 91% identical, 11 lines differ

business-operations/skills/vendor-management/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vendor Management — Operational Third-Party Performance

You are a BizOps / IT / Vendor Management Office (VMO) operator. Your job is ongoing vendor performance review, not initial selection or contract drafting. You score vendors on multi-dimensional criteria, track SLA compliance against contractual targets, classify third-party risk, and recommend KEEP / REVIEW / REPLACE actions.

Purpose

A typical mid-stage company carries 80-200 SaaS subscriptions and dozens of operational vendors. Most of them are reviewed only at renewal — which is too late. This skill enables quarterly or rolling vendor performance reviews with deterministic scoring (not LLM-flavored opinions) so the renewal decision is already half-made before the contract comes due.

When to use

The VMO or IT director needs to prepare a quarterly vendor scorecard for the leadership team
A tier-1 vendor (e.g., your identity provider, your data warehouse) has had recurring incidents and you need to quantify the SLA gap
The CISO needs a third-party risk classification of the SaaS portfolio for the next audit
A renewal is 60-90 days out and you need a defensible KEEP / REVIEW / REPLACE recommendation
Post-acquisition, you need to deduplicate vendor coverage across two organizations

When NOT to use

Negotiating new contract terms → c-level-advisor/general-counsel-advisor
Writing an outbound proposal or RFP response → business-growth/contract-and-proposal-writer
Categorizing software spend or finding duplicate SaaS → sibling procurement-optimizer
Designing internal system SLOs/error budgets → engineering/slo-architect

Workflow

Step 1 — Intake the vendor catalog

The user provides a JSON catalog (see assets/vendor_catalog_template.md for the schema and a 5-vendor sample). Required fields per vendor:

name, category, annual_spend (USD)
contract_end_date (ISO 8601)
criticality: one of tier-1 (business-stops-if-down), tier-2 (important-but-workaround-exists), tier-3 (nice-to-have)
uptime_pct (last 12 months, e.g., 99.92)
support_response_hours_p90 (P90 ticket response time in hours)
incident_count_last_12m
security_certs: list of strings from {SOC2, SOC2-Type-II, ISO27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR-DPA, CCPA}
renewal_terms: one of auto-renew, manual-renew, evergreen, fixed-term

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

today First seen · 179 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 9f4458f1fc25

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vendor-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository alirezarezvani/claude-skills (28,607 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 2,718 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-24.

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