vendor-review

vendor-review is a skill for Claude Code from sun2443/designer-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (730 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of vendor-review, Apache-2.0.

A structured review of a vendor, including total cost, risks, performance, contract terms, and fit. A vendor is an outside company that provides a product or service to your organisation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new vendor selection, renewals, replacements, side-by-side comparisons, procurement preparation, and negotiation planning.
Why use it?
It helps reveal costs beyond the licence price, such as migration, support, training, and leaving the service. It also makes security, reliability, lock-in, and renewal decisions easier to compare.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see [CONNECTORS.md](../../CONNECTORS.md)..

Part of the operations plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for new vendor selection, renewals, replacements, side-by-side comparisons, procurement preparation, and negotiation planning.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sun2443/designer-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sun2443/designer-skills/vendor-review

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install operations, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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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 730 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 $0.00054 $0.00730
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00292
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00073

Measured 13d ago against content hash c2a959a7ed06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 13d 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 vendor-review — 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.

operations/skills/vendor-review/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 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.

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 · 105 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. 13d ago First seen · 105 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A c2a959a7ed06

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vendor-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository sun2443/designer-skills (0 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 730 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to vendor-review, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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