vendor-review

vendor-review is a skill for Claude Code from Bevel-Software/Hexis. It costs 54 tokens per session (804 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured way to evaluate a supplier or service provider before buying from them or renewing a contract. It reviews total cost, risks, performance, fit, and negotiation points.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare vendors, review proposals, decide on renewals, estimate total cost of ownership, and prepare procurement recommendations.
Why use it?
It prevents decisions based only on the advertised price by including setup, training, support, migration, and exit costs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to compare vendors, review proposals, decide on renewals, estimate total cost of ownership, and prepare procurement recommendations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bevel-software/hexis/vendor-review
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 Bevel-Software/Hexis --skill vendor-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bevel-Software/Hexis

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 804 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 $0.00054 $0.00804
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00322
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00080

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5318845a0221, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vendor-review 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 6d 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.

packages/core-backend/starter-packs/operations/Plugins/operations-starter/skills/vendor-review/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

vendor-review

Names like ~~chat or ~~project tracker mean whichever tool of that kind is connected: a tool in one of your Hexis plugins, or one your agent has itself. The knowledge base is this workspace's knowledge base in Hexis, plus any other docs tool that is connected. When a source is not connected, skip it and say what you could not check.

Evaluate a vendor with structured analysis covering cost, risk, performance, and fit.

Usage

Ask your agent for the vendor-review skill by name, or just describe the job and it will pick the skill up. Give it:

What I Need From You

  • Vendor name: Who are you evaluating?
  • Context: New vendor evaluation, renewal decision, or comparison?
  • Details: Contract terms, pricing, proposal document, or current performance data

Evaluation Framework

Cost Analysis (Total Cost of Ownership)

  • Total cost of ownership (not just license fees)
  • Implementation and migration costs
  • Training and onboarding costs
  • Ongoing support and maintenance
  • Exit costs (data migration, contract termination)

Risk Assessment

  • Vendor financial stability
  • Security and compliance posture
  • Concentration risk (single vendor dependency)
  • Contract lock-in and exit terms
  • Business continuity and disaster recovery

Performance Metrics

  • SLA compliance
  • Support response times
  • Uptime and reliability
  • Feature delivery cadence
  • Customer satisfaction

Comparison Matrix

When comparing vendors, produce a side-by-side matrix covering: pricing, features, integrations, security, support, contract terms, and references.

Output

## Vendor Review: [Vendor Name]
**Date:** [Date] | **Type:** [New / Renewal / Comparison]

### Summary
[2-3 sentence recommendation]

### Cost Analysis
| Component | Annual Cost | Notes |
|-----------|-------------|-------|
| License/subscription | $[X] | [Per seat, flat, usage-based] |
| Implementation | $[X] | [One-time] |
| Support/maintenance | $[X] | [Included or add-on] |
| **Total Year 1** | **$[X]** | |
| **Total 3-Year** | **$[X]** | |

### Risk Assessment
| Risk | Likelihood | Impact | Mitigation |
|------|-----------|--------|------------|
| [Risk] | High/Med/Low | High/Med/Low | [Mitigation] |

### Strengths
- [Strength 1]
- [Strength 2]

### Concerns
- [Concern 1]
- [Concern 2]

### Recommendation
[Proceed / Negotiate / Pass] — [Reasoning]

### Negotiation Points
- [Leverage point 1]
- [Leverage point 2]

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. 6d ago First seen · 103 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 5318845a0221

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vendor-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Bevel-Software/Hexis (115 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 804 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-10.