vendor-evaluation

vendor-evaluation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (2,828 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for comparing vendors, including their costs, risks, references, capabilities, and fit for a project. Total cost of ownership means looking at the full cost over time, not just the purchase price.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for building vendor comparison tables, assessing long-term costs, checking references, and preparing for supplier selection or negotiation.
Why use it?
It helps teams compare suppliers consistently and spot hidden costs or risks before choosing one.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit It is for building vendor comparison tables, assessing long-term costs, checking references, and preparing for supplier selection or negotiation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills/vendor-evaluation
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 w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills --skill vendor-evaluation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,828 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 $0.00024 $0.02828
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01414
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00566
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00283

Measured 9d ago against content hash e653757dd185, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vendor-evaluation 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.

12-procurement-supply-chain/vendor-evaluation/SKILL.md · 302 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 302 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vendor Evaluation

Overview

Systematically evaluate vendor options using quantitative and qualitative criteria. Comprehensive vendor evaluation combines total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, risk assessment, reference verification, and strategic fit to select the best long-term partner.

Vendor Comparison Matrix

Basic Comparison (3 vendors):

Capability Requirements Vendor A Vendor B Vendor C
Functionality
Real-time integrations Mandatory Yes Yes Yes
API rate limits 1000 req/sec 1000 2000 500
Customization support Available Limited Extensive Standard
Performance
Response time (p95) <200ms 150ms 180ms 250ms
Uptime SLA 99.9% 99.95% 99.9% 99.5%
Data latency <15 min 5 min 10 min 30 min
Security
SOC 2 Type II Mandatory Yes Yes No
Data encryption AES-256 Yes Yes Yes
GDPR certified Required Yes Yes In progress
Support
24/7 phone support Desired Yes Yes No
Avg response time (P1) <30 min 15 min 30 min 2 hours
Customer success manager Yes Included Included Extra cost
Pricing
Year 1 total cost Benchmark $115K $95K $80K
Implementation cost Fixed $30K $25K $40K
Hidden costs Identify Minimal Minimal Training extra
3-year TCO Compare $285K $270K $290K

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Analysis

Calculate True Cost Beyond License:

VENDOR A - 3 YEAR TCO

ACQUISITION COSTS:
Software License (Year 1) | $50,000
Implementation Services | $30,000
Data Migration | $10,000
Initial Training (3 days) | $15,000
Subtotal | $105,000

ONGOING COSTS (Years 1-3):
Support & Maintenance (Y1) | $25,000
Support & Maintenance (Y2) | $26,250
Support & Maintenance (Y3) | $27,563
Annual Training Refresher (Y1) | $5,000
Annual Training Refresher (Y2) | $5,000
Annual Training Refresher (Y3) | $5,000
Infrastructure/Licenses (Y1) | $5,000
Infrastructure/Licenses (Y2) | $5,250
Infrastructure/Licenses (Y3) | $5,513
Software License Renewal (Y2) | $52,500
Software License Renewal (Y3) | $55,125
Subtotal | $217,388

HIDDEN COSTS:
Internal Project Management (500 hrs @ $100/hr) | $50,000
Vendor Management (100 hrs/year @ $100/hr) | $30,000
Process redesign (800 hrs @ $125/hr) | $100,000
Knowledge transfer (200 hrs @ $100/hr) | $20,000
System integration/customization (300 hrs @ $150/hr) | $45,000
Subtotal | $245,000

TOTAL 3-YEAR TCO | $567,388

Read the full file on GitHub · 302 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. 9d ago First seen · 302 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A e653757dd185

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vendor-evaluation is a skill published in the GitHub repository w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills (198 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,828 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.