vendor-review

vendor-review is a skill for Claude Code from nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles. It costs 54 tokens per session (754 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of vendor-review, Apache-2.0.

A structured review of a supplier or service provider, covering its total cost, risks, performance, and fit for the organisation. Total cost includes expenses beyond the advertised price, such as setup, training, support, and leaving the contract.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a new vendor, compare suppliers, review a renewal, build a cost breakdown, and prepare negotiation points.
Why use it?
It helps teams compare vendors fairly and spot hidden costs, security concerns, dependence on one supplier, and difficult exit terms before signing or renewing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to assess a new vendor, compare suppliers, review a renewal, build a cost breakdown, and prepare negotiation points.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles/vendor-review
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 nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles --skill vendor-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 754 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 91% 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 $0.00054 $0.00754
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00377
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00075

Measured 8d ago against content hash 128e53df865c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vendor-review 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 8d 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

91% identical to vendor-review — 9 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.

profiles/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/anthropics_knowledge-work-plugins_operations/for-claude/.claude/skills/vendor-review/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/vendor-review

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md (.forgecat/profiles/@forgecat/anthropics_knowledge-work-plugins_operations/CONNECTORS.md).

Evaluate a vendor with structured analysis covering cost, risk, performance, and fit.

Usage

/vendor-review $ARGUMENTS

What I Need From You

  • Vendor name: Who are you evaluating?
  • Context: New vendor evaluation, renewal decision, or comparison?
  • Details: Contract terms, pricing, proposal document, or current performance data

Evaluation Framework

Cost Analysis (Total Cost of Ownership)

  • Total cost of ownership (not just license fees)
  • Implementation and migration costs
  • Training and onboarding costs
  • Ongoing support and maintenance
  • Exit costs (data migration, contract termination)

Risk Assessment

  • Vendor financial stability
  • Security and compliance posture
  • Concentration risk (single vendor dependency)
  • Contract lock-in and exit terms
  • Business continuity and disaster recovery

Performance Metrics

  • SLA compliance
  • Support response times
  • Uptime and reliability
  • Feature delivery cadence
  • Customer satisfaction

Comparison Matrix

When comparing vendors, produce a side-by-side matrix covering: pricing, features, integrations, security, support, contract terms, and references.

Output

## Vendor Review: [Vendor Name]
**Date:** [Date] | **Type:** [New / Renewal / Comparison]

### Summary
[2-3 sentence recommendation]

### Cost Analysis
| Component | Annual Cost | Notes |
|-----------|-------------|-------|
| License/subscription | $[X] | [Per seat, flat, usage-based] |
| Implementation | $[X] | [One-time] |
| Support/maintenance | $[X] | [Included or add-on] |
| **Total Year 1** | **$[X]** | |
| **Total 3-Year** | **$[X]** | |

### Risk Assessment
| Risk | Likelihood | Impact | Mitigation |
|------|-----------|--------|------------|
| [Risk] | High/Med/Low | High/Med/Low | [Mitigation] |

### Strengths
- [Strength 1]
- [Strength 2]

### Concerns
- [Concern 1]
- [Concern 2]

### Recommendation
[Proceed / Negotiate / Pass] — [Reasoning]

### Negotiation Points
- [Leverage point 1]
- [Leverage point 2]

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. 8d ago First seen · 108 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 128e53df865c

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vendor-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles (66 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 754 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to vendor-review, differing in 9 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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