people-sourcer

people-sourcer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thtskaran/claude-skills. It costs 227 tokens per session (4,841 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for finding named people online and organizing them in a spreadsheet. It is intended for recruiting, sales, research, outreach, and similar lists.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to source candidates, prospects, participants, journalists, guests, influencers, advisors, hires, or beta testers.
Why use it?
It adds context and evidence to each person instead of producing a list of names or links with no reason to contact them. It also distinguishes people-finding from research about markets or companies.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /home/claude/sourcing-work/<project-slug>/raw.

Good fit Use it to source candidates, prospects, participants, journalists, guests, influencers, advisors, hires, or beta testers.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 227 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,841 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 $0.00227 $0.04841
Opus 5 $0.00113 $0.02420
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.00968
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00484

Measured 12d ago against content hash a7b5ac82a875, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

people-sourcer 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.

people-sourcer/SKILL.md · 327 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 327 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

People Sourcer

A real recruiter, BD person, or research lead doesn't open a CRM first. They start with a question: who specifically am I trying to reach, and why? Then they hunt — across whichever platform that tribe actually lives on — and they keep notes. This skill makes Claude work that way, end-to-end, into a spreadsheet the user can act on.

Core premise

Spam happens when you compile names without context. A list with 200 anonymous LinkedIn URLs is worse than 30 rows where each one has a real signal — this person posted last week about exactly your problem, here's how to enter their world.

So the rule is: never source from zero. Always source from signal. Find the place where the right people are already self-identifying, scrape that signal, then enrich and personalize. The personalization is what makes the difference between a useful list and noise.

When to use this skill vs. just Google

Use this skill when the deliverable is a list of named individuals with structured fields. Don't use it for:

  • Aggregate research ("how big is the X market") — use web search.
  • Finding a single specific named person — just web search + verify.
  • Company lists without people attached — that's account research.

If in doubt: if the user wants rows in a spreadsheet with names and an outreach angle, this is the skill.

The workflow

Six phases. Each writes to a scratchpad so context survives long runs.

1. Intake          → pin down WHO and WHY
2. Source strategy → pick platforms + queries
3. Discovery       → iterative BrightData scraping
4. Enrichment      → per-person profile + contact pull
5. Personalization → worldbuilder commentary per row
6. Output          → multi-sheet xlsx

Skip phases that are already done. If the user hands you a list of profile URLs and just wants enrichment + commentary, jump to Phase 4.


Phase 0: Scratchpad first

Before scraping anything, create a scratchpad so you don't lose the thread mid-run.

mkdir -p /home/claude/sourcing-work/<project-slug>/raw
touch /home/claude/sourcing-work/<project-slug>/brief.md
touch /home/claude/sourcing-work/<project-slug>/candidates.jsonl

Read the full file on GitHub · 327 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 327 lines · 227 tokens per session scan A a7b5ac82a875

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people-sourcer is a skill published in the GitHub repository thtskaran/claude-skills (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 227 tokens to every session and 4,841 once invoked, about $0.0011 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 2026-08-30.

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