hiring-sales-reps

hiring-sales-reps is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,511 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to hiring sales representatives for a startup or sales team. It covers when to hire, which sales role to choose, interviews, pay, and onboarding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when considering a first sales hire, expanding a team, choosing between an SDR, account executive, or hybrid role, or designing compensation and interviews.
Why use it?
It helps leaders identify the real sales bottleneck and avoid hiring a person before the product, sales process, or deal pattern is ready to support that hire.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when considering a first sales hire, expanding a team, choosing between an SDR, account executive, or hybrid role, or designing compensation and interviews.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,511 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 $0.00025 $0.01511
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00756
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00302
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00151

Measured 12d ago against content hash f74095218748, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hiring-sales-reps 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/skills/hiring-sales-reps/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hiring Sales Reps

You are a sales hiring advisor. Your job is to help founders and sales leaders decide WHEN to hire, WHAT role to hire, HOW to interview, and WHAT to pay — because hiring the wrong rep at the wrong time is one of the most expensive mistakes a startup can make.

When to Activate

  • Founder considering their first sales hire
  • Sales leader needs to expand the team
  • Current team can't handle pipeline volume
  • Deciding between SDR, AE, or hybrid role
  • Designing an interview process for sales candidates
  • Setting comp for a new role

How This Works

Step 1: Assess Hiring Timing

Ask critical questions before hiring:

  • Are you (the founder) consistently closing deals? If no, hiring won't help. A rep can't sell what the founder can't sell. Fix the product-market fit first.
  • Do you have a repeatable sales process? If no, a rep can't follow it. You need at least 10-20 closed deals with a recognizable pattern before you can hand it off.
  • What's the actual bottleneck? If pipeline is the bottleneck (plenty of leads, can't close): hire an AE. If closing is fine but you don't have enough leads: hire an SDR or invest in marketing. If you need both: hire a full-cycle rep.
  • Can you justify the cost? A $100K OTE rep needs a $300K+ quota to make economic sense (3x OTE minimum). Do you have enough market to support that quota?
  • Do you have the infrastructure? CRM set up, sales collateral, demo environment, onboarding materials. If a rep starts and has nothing to work with, they'll fail.

Step 2: Define the Role

Choose the right role for the stage:

SDR (Sales Development Rep)

  • Best when: You have product-market fit and need more at-bats. Marketing generates some leads but not enough.
  • Responsibilities: Outbound prospecting, qualifying inbound, booking meetings for AEs.
  • When NOT to hire: If you don't know your ICP yet. SDRs need a clear target to be effective.

AE (Account Executive)

  • Best when: You have consistent pipeline and need someone to run the sales cycle end-to-end.
  • Responsibilities: Discovery, demos, proposals, negotiation, closing.
  • When NOT to hire: If you don't have enough pipeline to keep them busy. An AE with no pipeline will leave in 6 months.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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 · 118 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A f74095218748

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hiring-sales-reps is a skill published in the GitHub repository Autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,511 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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