negotiate

negotiate is a skill for Claude Code from palashjain95/jobhunter. It costs 61 tokens per session (794 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A negotiation skill for employment offers that creates a counter-offer plan and scripts for email and phone conversations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing what to ask for, assessing your best alternative, deciding when to respond, drafting a counter-offer, and handling a rejection.
Why use it?
It helps turn offer details, competing options, and personal leverage into specific requests and responses to employer pushback.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the jobhunter plugin — 13 skills, 3 agents, 2 hooks, 7 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Choosing what to ask for, assessing your best alternative, deciding when to respond, drafting a counter-offer, and handling a rejection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/palashjain95/jobhunter/negotiate
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 palashjain95/jobhunter --skill negotiate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/palashjain95/jobhunter

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install jobhunter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 3 agents, 2 hooks, 7 MCP servers.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 794 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 $0.00061 $0.00794
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00397
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00079

Measured 10d ago against content hash 43f312cd4064, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

negotiate 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.

.claude/skills/negotiate/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/negotiate

Usage

/negotiate <company name>
/negotiate my Stripe offer — I want to push on equity

Inputs

  • Offer details and evaluation (from /offer-analysis or user)
  • knowledge/negotiation/strategy.md — framework and preferences
  • knowledge/profile.md — leverage context
  • Any competing offers or alternatives

Produce

1. Counter-Offer Strategy

What to ask for (specific numbers/terms), in what order, what to concede if needed, walk-away point.

2. BATNA Analysis

Candidate's best alternative, leverage strength, how to reference alternatives without bluffing.

3. Counter-Offer Email

Draft the actual email (~150-200 words):

  • Structure: appreciation → enthusiasm → specific asks → flexibility signal
  • Apply the candidate's writing framework

4. Phone Negotiation Script

  • Opening line
  • Key talking points (3 max)
  • How to handle pushback
  • Closing (leave door open)

5. Timing

When to respond, how to buy time if needed, deadline awareness.

6. If They Say No

How to respond to a flat "no", what smaller wins to ask for, when to accept gracefully.

Output Format

## Negotiation Strategy: [Company]

### What to Ask For
1. [Component]: [current] → [target] — [reasoning]
2. ...

**Walk-away point:** [threshold]
**Concession order:** [what to give up first if needed]

### BATNA
**Your best alternative:** [description]
**Leverage:** Strong / Moderate / Limited — [reasoning]

---

### Counter-Offer Email

**Subject:** [subject line]

[Full email text — ready to send]

---

### Phone Script

**Open with:** "[opening line]"

**Key points:**
1. [point with phrasing]
2. [point with phrasing]
3. [point with phrasing]

**If they push back on [X]:** "[response]"
**Close with:** "[closing line]"

---

### Timing
- Respond by: [date/timeframe]
- If you need more time: "[buying time script]"

If Something Goes Wrong

  • No offer details available: Ask for them — "What's the current offer? I need numbers to negotiate from."
  • Limited leverage (no competing offers, no special skills): Be honest about it. Focus on other negotiable elements (start date, title, remote flexibility).
  • User wants to negotiate aggressively beyond market: Flag the risk. "Pushing past $X could signal misalignment with their band."

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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 · 115 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 43f312cd4064

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negotiate is a skill published in the GitHub repository palashjain95/jobhunter (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 794 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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