hr-retained-search

hr-retained-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tuanductran/hr-skills. It costs 66 tokens per session (726 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for running retained executive-search engagements, where a client pays for a structured search with agreed milestones rather than only for a successful hire.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure agreements, run kickoffs, build candidate longlists and shortlists, present slates, report progress, negotiate offers, and manage guarantee-period follow-ups.
Why use it?
It helps search teams manage confidential senior-hiring work, client expectations, delivery milestones, and changes to scope or candidates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to structure agreements, run kickoffs, build candidate longlists and shortlists, present slates, report progress, negotiate offers, and manage guarantee-period follow-ups.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tuanductran/hr-skills/hr-retained-search
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tuanductran/hr-skills --skill hr-retained-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tuanductran/hr-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin hr-retained-search/plugin install hr-retained-search after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 726 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00066 $0.00726
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00363
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00073

Measured 9d ago against content hash 32c0b354a8a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hr-retained-search 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 9d 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/hr-retained-search/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manage retained search engagements end-to-end — from client agreement and search kickoff through milestone-based delivery, candidate slate presentation, and close — for senior and hard-to-fill roles.

Supported tasks

  • Structuring a retained search engagement and fee/milestone agreement
  • Running a search kickoff meeting to align on role, culture fit, and process
  • Building candidate longlists and shortlists against a retained search brief
  • Preparing candidate slate presentations for the client or hiring committee
  • Managing search timeline milestones (research, longlist, shortlist, offer)
  • Communicating search progress and setbacks to the client transparently
  • Handling confidential searches where the client identity is not disclosed upfront
  • Negotiating and closing offers on behalf of a retained search client
  • Managing candidate withdrawal or client scope changes mid-search
  • Documenting search process for guarantee/replacement terms
  • Differentiating retained search value from contingent recruiting to prospective clients
  • Building post-placement check-in cadence to protect the guarantee period

Key prompts

Engagement structure

  1. "Draft a retained search engagement outline with milestone-based fee structure for a [role] search."
  2. "What should be covered in a search kickoff meeting with the client for a retained [role] search?"
  3. "Write client-facing language explaining what differentiates retained search from contingent recruiting."
  4. "Draft a scope-of-work document defining deliverables, timeline, and exclusivity terms for a retained search engagement."

Running the search

  1. "Build a candidate longlist-to-shortlist process for a retained search on [role], including research and vetting steps."
  2. "Draft a candidate slate presentation summarizing 3 to 5 shortlisted candidates for [role] with comparative strengths."
  3. "How should I communicate a search setback (thin market, candidate withdrawal) to the client without losing confidence?"
  4. "Design a weekly status update format that keeps the client informed without overwhelming them with detail."

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 58 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 32c0b354a8a3

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hr-retained-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository tuanductran/hr-skills (58 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 726 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 2026-09-03.

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