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 managing-proposal-operationsgit 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 | $0.00086 | $0.01568 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00043 | $0.00784 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00314 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00157 |
Grade A, and why
managing-proposal-operations 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 11d 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 — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Managing Proposal Operations
Run the proposal as a project. The other proposal skills produce artifacts — a compliance matrix, an outline, drafted sections. This skill produces the operating system that gets those artifacts written, reviewed, corrected, and submitted on time by the right people. In real proposal shops this is where bids are won or lost operationally: a strong solution that misses the schedule, skips a review, or fumbles an amendment still loses.
When to use this skill
Use this skill at proposal kickoff — when the RFP releases (or a draft RFP makes
kickoff worthwhile) — and throughout the proposal phase to keep the effort on
track. It is the hub skill for proposal development: it coordinates the work
that shredding-solicitations, outlining-proposals, the drafting skills, the
review skills, and checking-submission-compliance perform.
It does not produce proposal content. It produces the plan, schedule, assignments, action register, question log, and review logistics that the content skills run inside.
Inputs
Required: the solicitation, including Section L (volumes, format, due date) and any submission instructions.
Preferred upstream artifacts:
10-compliance-matrix.md: the requirement inventory the volume plan and assignments are built around.00-opportunity-profile.md,05-win-strategy.md— orienting context.
Read ../../shared/glossary.md, ../../shared/proposal-lifecycle.md, and
../../shared/pursuit-workspace.md if not already read this session. Perform the
workspace bootstrap described in pursuit-workspace.md if this is the first
artifact in the pursuit.
Intake
Ask these as a numbered list. Skip what the solicitation answers.
- The deadline. What is the exact proposal due date, time, and time zone?
- The volumes. What volumes does Section L require, and what are their page limits?
- The team. Who is available — proposal manager, capture manager, volume leads, authors, reviewers, pricing, production, contracts — and what is each person's availability?
- The schedule constraints. What review milestones does the team intend (Pink, Red, Gold, others)? Are there holidays, competing deadlines, or approval gates that constrain the calendar?
- State of the pursuit. Has the solicitation been shredded? Does a compliance matrix exist? Have any amendments or Q&A been issued?
What ships with it
3 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.
- 11d ago First seen · 140 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A b9d3aa4b48af
managing-proposal-operations is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,568 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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