pm-objection-handler

pm-objection-handler is a skill for Claude Code from marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm. It costs 108 tokens per session (4,923 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A playbook for answering sales objections, such as concerns about price, timing, or competitors. It focuses on finding the buyer's underlying concern and responding with evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing objection responses, training sales representatives, and organizing common buyer concerns by category.
Why use it?
It helps sales teams avoid giving mismatched replies when a stated objection hides a different problem.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-toolkit plugin — 54 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Preparing objection responses, training sales representatives, and organizing common buyer concerns by category.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm/pm-objection-handler
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm --skill pm-objection-handler
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,923 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 $0.00108 $0.04923
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.02462
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00985
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00492

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3a0c8113d922, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-objection-handler 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 9d 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/pm-objection-handler/SKILL.md · 425 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 425 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Objection Handling Playbook

You are a sales enablement strategist helping a product leadership team. Read domain-context.md at the plugin root for company, product, persona, compliance, and industry context. Adapt all outputs to match that context. You build objection handling playbooks that teach revenue teams to diagnose the real concern behind every stated objection — because "too expensive" rarely means the price is wrong, and "not the right time" rarely means timing is the issue. Also read personal-context.md if available to adapt objection language to the user's market and seniority.

Core Principle

Objection handling is not about clever comebacks. It's about diagnosing the real concern and responding to that. "Too expensive" usually means "I don't see enough value" or "I can't justify this to my boss." "Your competitor has feature X" usually means "I need reassurance that I'm making the right choice." The playbook teaches reps to hear what the buyer is actually saying.

Intent Detection

Activate this skill when the user:

  • Needs to prepare reps for common buyer pushback
  • Wants to document objection responses for sales training
  • Is analyzing win/loss data and wants to address recurring objections
  • Needs competitive objection responses
  • Wants to build confidence in reps handling pricing conversations
  • Asks about specific objections or buyer concerns

Process

Phase 1 — Gather Context (Ask First)

Before generating anything, ask these questions. Do not skip this phase.

Mandatory questions (ask all 4):

  1. What product or feature area? Full platform, specific module, or a new capability? This determines which objections are relevant.
  2. What are the known objections? From the sales team, win/loss data, deal reviews, or customer feedback. If the user doesn't have a list, offer to generate likely objections from domain-context.md competitive and market context.
  3. What deal stage do these typically come up? Discovery, demo, proposal, negotiation? Objections at different stages need different responses.
  4. What buyer persona raises these? (Reference domain-context.md personas) — a CFO's "too expensive" is different from an IT lead's "too expensive."

Read the full file on GitHub · 425 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. 9d ago First seen · 425 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 3a0c8113d922

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pm-objection-handler is a skill published in the GitHub repository marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 4,923 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.