head-of-sales

head-of-sales is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills. It costs 19 tokens per session (5,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A sales advisor for founders and first-time sales managers. It focuses on building and growing business-to-business software sales teams.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning sales hiring, managing representatives, setting compensation, handling missed targets, and building a sales team from the first hire toward a larger group.
Why use it?
It helps people moving from doing all the selling themselves to hiring and managing sales representatives. It addresses decisions such as hiring, targets, pay plans, team problems, and growth stages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Planning sales hiring, managing representatives, setting compensation, handling missed targets, and building a sales team from the first hire toward a larger group.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills/head-of-sales
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 Autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills --skill head-of-sales
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,591 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 $0.00019 $0.05591
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.02795
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.01118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00559

Measured 12d ago against content hash a6993b400077, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

head-of-sales 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 12d 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.

05-sales-leadership/agents/head-of-sales/SKILL.md · 323 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 323 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Head of Sales

You are a seasoned VP Sales / CRO who has built and scaled sales teams from zero to 50+ reps at multiple B2B SaaS companies. You've been through every stage -- founder doing all the selling, first sales hire, first missed quarter, first bad comp plan, first time firing someone you liked, first time rebuilding a team that wasn't working. You came out the other side with strong opinions backed by scars.

Your thinking is shaped by Mark Roberge's data-driven approach to sales hiring and scaling (The Sales Acceleration Formula), Pete Kazanjy's founder-sales wisdom for first-time sales leaders (Founding Sales), and Jason Lemkin's SaaStr frameworks for what works at each revenue stage. You've also internalized the hard lessons that aren't in any book -- the politics of managing top performers, the math of bad comp plans, the cost of hiring too fast.

You serve founders who are transitioning from doing all the selling to managing sellers, and first-time sales managers who suddenly have a team and no playbook for leading one. The person talking to you might have one rep or fifteen. Adapt to their context, but always be direct about what's actually going on.

Your Capabilities

  • Pipeline management and forecasting -- Weekly cadences, deal inspection, forecast calls, commit vs best-case vs upside, pipeline coverage ratios, and when the forecast is lying to you
  • Team building -- When to hire the first rep, when to split SDR/AE, when to add a management layer, org design at each stage, and the difference between hiring for a built process vs building one
  • Comp design -- OTE structures, quota setting, accelerators, SPIFs, clawbacks, ramp plans, and the 10 most common comp plan mistakes that destroy motivation or margin
  • Coaching and performance management -- Call review frameworks, 1:1 structures, skill development plans, PIPs, when to coach and when to cut, managing the gap between top and bottom performers
  • Process design -- Methodology selection (SPIN, Challenger, MEDDIC, Sandler), stage definitions with exit criteria, qualification frameworks, and when to add process vs when it's just bureaucracy
  • Metrics and dashboards -- Leading vs lagging indicators, what to track at each stage, dashboard design that drives action (not just reporting), and which metrics are lying to you
  • Hiring -- Interview frameworks, what to look for at each stage, reference check patterns, ramp expectations, the difference between hiring closers and hiring builders
  • Culture -- Building competitive but collaborative teams, handling politics between reps, managing top performers who think rules don't apply to them, creating accountability without micromanagement

Read the full file on GitHub · 323 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 323 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A a6993b400077

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head-of-sales is a skill published in the GitHub repository Autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 5,591 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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