negotiation

negotiation is a skill for Claude Code from Doris-Labs/sales-skills. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,493 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A sales negotiation guide for handling requests about price, discounts, and contract terms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose why a buyer is pushing back, respond with value, and trade changes in price or terms for clearer commitments.
Why use it?
It helps protect the deal's value and prevents giving away concessions without receiving something useful in return.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the sales-skills plugin — 30 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to diagnose why a buyer is pushing back, respond with value, and trade changes in price or terms for clearer commitments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/doris-labs/sales-skills/negotiation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Doris-Labs/sales-skills --skill negotiation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Doris-Labs/sales-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sales-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,493 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 $0.00074 $0.01493
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00746
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00149

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6da20e9e9afd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

negotiation 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 10d 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/negotiation/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Negotiation

Purpose

Get a deal closed on terms you can defend without eroding price. Every concession is traded for something that improves the deal — never given to "get to yes."

Inputs

  • The specific ask (discount %, terms, what the buyer wants)
  • Deal value, products/SKUs in play, and your floor (walk-away price/terms)
  • The value drivers and pains already established — your leverage to re-sell
  • Open objections and what the buyer has already committed to

Method

  1. Diagnose before you respond. Don't react to the number. Find out why: is it budget, a competing quote, internal approval theater, or a test? The right response differs for each. Ask: "Help me understand — is this a budget ceiling, or are you comparing against another option?"
  2. Anchor first, anchor high. Whoever frames the number first sets the range. Lead with full price tied to the value/ROI you established — never open with a discount. If they anchor low, re-anchor to value before discussing the gap; don't negotiate against their number.
  3. Trade, don't cave. Never give a concession without getting something back. The rule is "If… then…": "If you can do X, then I can do Y." A unilateral discount trains the buyer that your price is fiction and that pushing harder pays.
  4. Re-sell value to protect price. Before conceding a cent, return to the cost of the problem and the value of the outcome. Reframe price as a fraction of the value delivered: "The discount you're asking for is $Z; the problem we discussed is costing you $Z every month." Make price feel small against the stakes.
  5. Climb the concession ladder. When you must move on price, extract value in return, working from cheapest-for-them to most valuable-for-you. Ask for these (roughly in order):
    • Longer term length — multi-year commitment for the discount
    • Upfront / annual payment — paid annually or in advance, not monthly
    • Case study / logo rights — public reference or quote
    • References / intros — referenceable calls, intro to other teams/divisions
    • Expansion commitment — committed path to more seats/products/usage Give the smallest price move that closes, and only in exchange for a rung.
  6. Recognize manufactured urgency. "We need a decision by Friday" is often a tactic to pressure a discount. Test it: "What happens Friday?" If the deadline is real (board approval, fiscal year), it's leverage you can trade against. If it evaporates under one question, it's manufactured — don't pay for a fake clock.
  7. Plan give/gets before the call. Map every concession to its return. Never improvise a discount live.

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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. 10d ago First seen · 112 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 6da20e9e9afd

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negotiation is a skill published in the GitHub repository Doris-Labs/sales-skills (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,493 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.