ai-vendor-evaluation

ai-vendor-evaluation is a skill for Codex from jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills. It costs 53 tokens per session (343 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured process for comparing AI vendors, tools, platforms, and agent systems for a business decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define evaluation criteria, build comparison tables, prepare procurement questions, identify review requirements, and plan a pilot.
Why use it?
It helps separate verified evidence from vendor claims and surfaces security, privacy, cost, governance, and integration questions before procurement.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to define evaluation criteria, build comparison tables, prepare procurement questions, identify review requirements, and plan a pilot.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeremylongworth-source/agentskills/ai-vendor-evaluation
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.

Any agent
npx skills add jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills --skill ai-vendor-evaluation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 343 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 $0.00053 $0.00343
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00171
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00034

Measured 10d ago against content hash 65774a30dd0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-vendor-evaluation 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/ai-vendor-evaluation/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

AI Vendor Evaluation

Core Workflow

  1. Define use case, buyer, users, data sensitivity, deployment context, budget, integration needs, and risk tier.
  2. Compare vendors by capability fit, data handling, security, governance, admin controls, interoperability, cost, support, maturity, and exit risk.
  3. Separate vendor claims from verified evidence and open questions.
  4. Draft evaluation matrix, procurement questions, and pilot requirements.
  5. Identify legal, security, privacy, finance, procurement, and IT review needs.
  6. Recommend next diligence steps, not final procurement approval.

Safety Rules

  • Do not claim a vendor is compliant, secure, approved, or best without current evidence and owner review.
  • Verify current official vendor documentation before platform-specific claims.
  • Do not recommend sharing sensitive data with a vendor without approval.
  • Escalate procurement, contract, data processing, security, privacy, employment, customer, and regulated-use risks.

Deliverable Shape

For AI vendor evaluation, provide:

  • Evaluation goal and scope
  • Vendor comparison matrix
  • Evidence and open questions
  • Security and governance review needs
  • Pilot requirements
  • Procurement questions
  • Recommendation for next step

References

  • Read references/ai-vendor-evaluation-checklist.md when comparing AI vendors, tools, platforms, or agent systems.
Files

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.

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 · 45 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 65774a30dd0c

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ai-vendor-evaluation is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills (1 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 343 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 2026-08-31.

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