buyer-list

buyer-list is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/financial-services. It costs 87 tokens per session (850 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A buyer-universe workflow for a sell-side M&A process, where a company is marketed for acquisition. It identifies strategic buyers, such as competitors or suppliers, and financial buyers, such as investment firms, then compares their fit and ability to buy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a buyer list, assess each buyer's strategic fit and financial capacity, and rank likely outreach targets.
Why use it?
It replaces an unstructured search for potential acquirers with a consistent way to compare and prioritize them.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the investment-banking plugin — 8 skills, 7 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to build a buyer list, assess each buyer's strategic fit and financial capacity, and rank likely outreach targets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/financial-services/buyer-list
About the project

Claude for Financial Services is a collection of agents, skills, commands, plugins, and data connectors for investment banking, equity research, private equity, and wealth-management workflows. Financial professionals use it to draft models, memos, research notes, and reconciliations for review by qualified people. The catalogue contains components from these workflows, including agents, skills, plugins, commands, and instructions.

anthropics/financial-services · 34,793 stars · on GitHub

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 anthropics/financial-services --skill buyer-list
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install investment-banking, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 7 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 850 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
  • Socket pass 13 Jun 2026
  • Snyk pass 13 Jun 2026
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 $0.00087 $0.00850
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00425
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00085

Measured today against content hash df6875147c70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

buyer-list 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.

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

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/vertical-plugins/investment-banking/skills/buyer-list/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Buyer List

Workflow

Step 1: Understand the Target

  • Company description, sector, and business model
  • Revenue, EBITDA, and growth profile
  • Key assets and capabilities (IP, customer relationships, geographic footprint, team)
  • Expected valuation range
  • Seller preferences (strategic vs. financial, management continuity, timeline)

Step 2: Strategic Buyers

Identify strategic acquirers across categories:

Direct Competitors

  • Companies in the same space that would gain market share
  • Rationale: Revenue synergies, eliminate competitor, scale

Adjacent Players

  • Companies in adjacent markets that could expand into the target's space
  • Rationale: Product extension, cross-sell, new market entry

Vertical Integrators

  • Customers or suppliers that could integrate vertically
  • Rationale: Supply chain control, margin capture, strategic lock-in

Platform Builders

  • Large companies building a platform in the space through M&A
  • Rationale: Tuck-in acquisition, fill capability gap

For each strategic buyer, assess:

Buyer Sector Revenue Strategic Fit Financial Capacity M&A Track Record Likelihood Priority
High/Med/Low Active/Moderate/None A/B/C

Step 3: Financial Sponsors

Identify PE/financial buyers:

Platform Investors

  • Sponsors looking for a new platform in this sector
  • Criteria: Fund size, sector focus, deal size range

Add-on Buyers

  • Sponsors with existing portfolio companies that could acquire the target as a bolt-on
  • Identify the specific portfolio company and synergy rationale

Growth Equity

  • For earlier-stage or high-growth targets
  • Minority vs. majority preference

For each sponsor:

Sponsor Fund Size Sector Focus Portfolio Overlap Recent Activity Priority
A/B/C

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. today First seen · 99 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A df6875147c70

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buyer-list is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/financial-services (34,793 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 850 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-12.

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