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.
npx skills add danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills --skill developing-solution-approachgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00089 | $0.01564 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00044 | $0.00782 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00313 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00156 |
Grade A, and why
developing-solution-approach 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 8d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Developing Solution Approach
Design the solution before anyone drafts a section. Storyboarding and section drafting both assume a solution already exists — a technical approach, a staffing model, a transition plan, a management structure, a risk and quality approach. Solutioning is the work of designing those, deliberately, from the requirements, the win themes, and the cost constraints. Skipping it means the solution gets invented one paragraph at a time by separate authors, and the proposal describes something incoherent.
When to use this skill
Use this skill after the win strategy is set and the solicitation has been
shredded (between capture and full proposal development) to design the
solution the proposal will sell. It feeds outlining-proposals (the storyboards
need a solution to storyboard) and drafting-proposal-sections (the sections
need a solution to describe). On a fast task order it may run in a single
solutioning session; on a large bid it is an iterative workshop series.
It does not write proposal narrative (drafting-proposal-sections) and does not
set win themes (developing-win-strategy). It designs the what and how that
the narrative will then present persuasively.
Inputs
Preferred upstream artifacts:
10-compliance-matrix.md: the requirements the solution must satisfy.05-win-strategy.md: the win themes and discriminators the solution must embody. A solution that does not deliver the discriminators makes the win themes empty.04-price-to-win.md: the cost target the solution must be designed to hit.03-competitive-assessment.md: what the solution must beat.00-opportunity-profile.mdand02-capture-plan.md— customer context.
Without the compliance matrix, run shredding-solicitations first — the
solution must be designed against real requirements.
Read ../../shared/glossary.md and ../../shared/pursuit-workspace.md if not
already read this session.
Intake
Ask these as a numbered list. Skip what upstream artifacts answer.
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 138 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 9989e0c7c338
developing-solution-approach is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,564 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 2026-08-31.
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