consulting-engagement-setup

consulting-engagement-setup is a skill for Claude Code from modest-curator478/claude-skills. It costs 223 tokens per session (2,966 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of consulting-engagement-setup, MIT.

A skill for setting up an independent consultant's work with a client, including its scope, price, deliverables, timeline, and boundaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing a consulting proposal or statement of work, deciding between hourly pricing and a retainer, or starting with a new client.
Why use it?
It reduces misunderstandings about what the client is buying and helps prevent unpaid work from expanding beyond the agreement.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it when preparing a consulting proposal or statement of work, deciding between hourly pricing and a retainer, or starting with a new client.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/modest-curator478/claude-skills/consulting-engagement-setup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add modest-curator478/claude-skills --skill consulting-engagement-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/modest-curator478/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 223 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,966 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00223 $0.02966
Opus 5 $0.00112 $0.01483
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.00593
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00297

Measured 12d ago against content hash 200b95276bdd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

consulting-engagement-setup 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to consulting-engagement-setup — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

consulting/consulting-engagement-setup/SKILL.md · 390 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 390 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Consulting Engagement Setup: Scoping, Pricing, and Protecting the Work

This skill sets up an independent consulting engagement correctly from the start. Most first-time consultants either underprice the work, underscope the deliverables, or both. The result is an engagement that expands without additional compensation, produces resentment, and ends the client relationship faster than the work would have ended it naturally.

The goal of this skill is not to protect the consultant from the client. It is to create a clear shared understanding of what is being purchased so that both sides can evaluate whether the work was done correctly. Ambiguity in scope is not a negotiating advantage. It is a liability that collects interest until it is paid with a damaged relationship.


HOW TO SET UP THIS SKILL

Provide:

  • What the client has asked for, in their words if possible
  • How the conversation started (referral, inbound, prior relationship)
  • Whether a rate has been discussed or if that conversation is still ahead
  • Your current read on what the client actually needs versus what they asked for
  • Any constraints: timeline, budget signals, internal politics at the client
  • Whether this is your first consulting engagement or you have done this before

The Conversation Before the Proposal

The most important conversation in a consulting engagement happens before any proposal is written. Most first-time consultants skip it because they are eager to win the work. Skipping it is the reason most engagements go wrong.

The pre-proposal conversation has one goal: understand the problem the client is actually trying to solve, not the solution they have already decided they want.

A client who says "we need someone to clean up our HubSpot" may actually need attribution rebuilt because the CEO is asking why marketing cannot show pipeline contribution. Cleaning up HubSpot is one step in that solution, not the solution itself. A consultant who scopes to the stated request will finish the cleanup and leave the client unsatisfied because the underlying problem is unchanged.

Read the full file on GitHub · 390 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. 12d ago First seen · 390 lines · 223 tokens per session scan A 200b95276bdd

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consulting-engagement-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository modest-curator478/claude-skills (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 223 tokens to every session and 2,966 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to consulting-engagement-setup, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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