bid-tabulator

bid-tabulator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dleerdefi/claude-code-construction. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that reads subcontractor bid PDFs and creates an Excel comparison workbook. A subcontractor is a company hired to perform part of a larger construction project.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for comparing construction bids, extracting line items and qualifications, checking totals, and preparing buyout analysis.
Why use it?
It captures bid details from every page, checks whether the amounts add up, and keeps each bidder’s information organized for review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dleerdefi/claude-code-construction/bid-tabulator
Any agent
npx skills add dleerdefi/claude-code-construction --skill bid-tabulator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dleerdefi/claude-code-construction

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,435 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00050 $0.02435
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01218
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00487
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00244

Measured 5d ago against content hash e7a41ee8871e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bid-tabulator 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/bid_comparison_to_xlsx.py, scripts/shared.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.claude/skills/bid-tabulator/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bid Tabulator

Processes multiple subcontractor bid PDFs for a scope of work and produces an Excel comparison workbook. Extracts each bid's data as-submitted — the engineer handles normalization and alignment after reviewing discrepancies and contacting subcontractors as needed.

RIGID Rules (non-negotiable)

  1. Complete extraction — zero tolerance on omission. If a bid contains data that fits ANY field in the schema, extract it. When in doubt, extract it. Extra data can be filtered; missing data cannot be recovered.
  2. Every page of every bid. Process ALL pages — do not stop at the first page or summary page. Bids over 10 pages contain detailed breakdowns, alternates, and qualifications that MUST be captured.
  3. Numeric verification. After extracting each bid, verify: (a) line item amounts sum to the stated subtotal, (b) subtotal + alternates/adjustments = base bid total. Flag any mismatch as [MATH ERROR: line items sum to $X, bid states $Y].
  4. Formulas in Excel, not hardcoded values. Subtotals use SUM formulas. Reconciliation uses difference formulas. The Comparison Summary uses cross-sheet formula references to per-bidder tabs. Never paste calculated values — the engineer must be able to trace every number.
  5. Preserve original language verbatim. Line item descriptions, exclusions, qualifications, and notes are extracted exactly as written. No paraphrasing, normalization, or cleanup.

Step 1: Gather Inputs

Ask the user for:

  1. Bid PDFs — folder path or list of individual files
  2. Scope description — what trade/division is being bought out (e.g., "Division 09 - Finishes", "Structural Steel")
  3. Any specific data points the user wants extracted beyond the defaults

If project context is available (.construction/ directory), read project.yaml for project name/number to include in the workbook header.

Pipeline Position

THIS SKILL → /bid-evaluator → user confirms → /subcontract-writer

This skill is the entry point of the bid pipeline. It produces the tabulated data that /bid-evaluator consumes for analysis.

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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. 5d ago First seen · 213 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A e7a41ee8871e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bid-tabulator is a skill published in the GitHub repository dleerdefi/claude-code-construction (36 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,435 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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