reviewing-color-teams

reviewing-color-teams is a skill for Claude Code from danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills. It costs 125 tokens per session (1,936 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of formal reviews of a US federal proposal at different stages of development. Blue, Pink, Green, Red, Gold, and White Glove reviews examine areas such as strategy, early drafts, pricing, evaluator scoring, executive approval, and final production.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a solution, storyboard, partial or near-final proposal, cost volume, complete package, or final formatting from an evaluator's viewpoint.
Why use it?
It finds problems while they can still be fixed and turns them into specific, prioritized findings. This avoids relying on vague comments shortly before submission.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the federal-proposal-skills plugin — 22 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess a solution, storyboard, partial or near-final proposal, cost volume, complete package, or final formatting from an evaluator's viewpoint.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills/reviewing-color-teams
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills --skill reviewing-color-teams
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install federal-proposal-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills.

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Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,936 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 $0.00125 $0.01936
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00968
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00387
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00194

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0513e8569960, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reviewing-color-teams 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.

skills/reviewing-color-teams/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reviewing Color Teams

Run a proposal review the way a federal source-selection evaluator would. Color team reviews catch problems while they are still cheap to fix. Their value depends entirely on one thing: producing findings that are scored, prioritized, and specific enough to act on. A review that returns vague impressions wastes the most expensive afternoon in the proposal schedule. This skill runs the review against an explicit standard and produces a findings matrix the team can work in recovery.

When to use this skill

Use this skill to run any of the proposal color team reviews:

  • Blue Team: early, on the solution and win strategy, before or during solutioning.
  • Pink Team: on storyboards and an early draft (~30–50%).
  • Green Team: on the cost/price volume and the pricing strategy.
  • Red Team: near-final (~90%), scoring as the government evaluator would.
  • Gold Team: final, executive go/no-go before submission.
  • White Glove: final production / book check of the assembled package.

Determine which review fits the work and its maturity (the skill's intake does this). This skill reviews; it does not fix. The fixes are recovery work, run by running-review-recovery with the drafting skills.

Inputs

Required:

  • The proposal content to review — storyboards (11-proposal-outline.md) for a Pink Team; drafted sections (12-sections/ and the volume artifacts) for Red and Gold.
  • 10-compliance-matrix.md: the requirements the proposal is checked against.
  • The solicitation Sections L and M — the evaluation standard.

Preferred upstream artifacts:

  • 05-win-strategy.md: to assess whether themes and discriminators landed.

Without Section M, a Red Team cannot score properly — Section M is the scoresheet. Obtain it before running a Red Team.

Read ../../shared/glossary.md, ../../shared/proposal-lifecycle.md, and ../../shared/pursuit-workspace.md if not already read this session.

Intake

Ask these as a numbered list.

  1. Which review. Which color team — Blue, Pink, Green, Red, Gold, or White Glove? If unsure, describe what is being reviewed and its maturity: solution/win strategy → Blue; storyboards and early draft → Pink; the cost volume → Green; a near-final full draft → Red; the final proposal → Gold; the assembled submission package → White Glove.
  2. Scope. The whole proposal or specific volumes/sections? Which artifacts are available to review?
  3. The standard. Are Section L, Section M, and the compliance matrix available? For a Red Team, what are the Section M factors, subfactors, their relative importance, and the evaluation approach (tradeoff or LPTA)?
  4. Win strategy. Is 05-win-strategy.md available, so the review can check whether the themes and discriminators are present and persuasive?
  5. Recovery time. How much time remains before the next milestone or submission? (This shapes how findings are prioritized.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 lines

Files

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.

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 · 158 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A 0513e8569960

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reviewing-color-teams is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 1,936 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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