negotiate-offer

negotiate-offer is a skill for Claude Code from tmargolis/career-navigator. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,487 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A negotiation message and supporting leverage for discussing a job offer, based on your saved offer details and career information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a ready-to-send negotiation draft and identify the strongest points for discussing an offer.
Why use it?
It avoids asking you to repeat details already collected during offer evaluation. If those details are missing, it gathers only what is needed and can use a new market comparison.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the career-navigator plugin — 46 skills, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare a ready-to-send negotiation draft and identify the strongest points for discussing an offer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tmargolis/career-navigator/negotiate-offer
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 tmargolis/career-navigator --skill negotiate-offer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmargolis/career-navigator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install career-navigator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills, 3 MCP servers.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,487 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 $0.00036 $0.01487
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00744
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00149

Measured 12d ago against content hash 22ff94bdfb5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

negotiate-offer 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.

skills/negotiate-offer/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Run negotiate-offer to draft send-ready negotiation messaging in the user's voice using:

  • persisted OfferContext from evaluate-offer when available
  • otherwise, minimal collection + fresh market benchmark

Workflow

Directory sharing (host integration)

If the host UI asks you for a directory to share with an agent during this skill's run, share only your {user_dir} job-search folder (the one containing CareerNavigator/).

This skill reads:

  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/profile.md
  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/ExperienceLibrary.json
  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/tracker.json (summary rows)
  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/applications/<application_id>.json (the one offer being negotiated)
  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/contacts/<company-slug>.json (the recipient of the negotiation message)
  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/offer-context-{application_id}.json (if present)

Do not share the whole workspace or unrelated folders.

1. Confirm required data exists

Application data uses the split layout defined in references/tracker-schema.md — read it before any read or write.

Read:

  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/profile.md
  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/ExperienceLibrary.json
  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/tracker.json

If required files are missing, output:

Negotiation skipped: run /career-navigator:launch to initialize CareerNavigator/.

2. Identify which offer to negotiate

Preferred path:

  • If a user message includes company and role (or job link / deadline), match them to a tracker.json summary row where status is "offer".

If there is exactly one "offer" row in the tracker: use it.

If multiple offer applications exist and matching is ambiguous:

  • ask for ONE clarification question: "Which company/role offer are we negotiating?"

Set application_id from the row's id, and keep its application label, detail_file, contacts_file, contact_count, latest_stage, and latest_stage_date.

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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 · 141 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 22ff94bdfb5b

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negotiate-offer is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmargolis/career-navigator (13 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,487 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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