client-pricing

client-pricing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from winstonkoh87/Athena-Public. It costs 33 tokens per session (998 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quoting guide for freelance work that sets price ranges, negotiation steps, and rules for pricing deliverables or outcomes instead of hours worked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to quote essays, problem sets, reports, presentations, urgent work, and projects combining writing, coding, or other fields.
Why use it?
It helps prevent prices from being pushed down too far or opened with the lowest acceptable amount.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to quote essays, problem sets, reports, presentations, urgent work, and projects combining writing, coding, or other fields.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/winstonkoh87/athena-public/client-pricing
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 winstonkoh87/Athena-Public --skill client-pricing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/winstonkoh87/Athena-Public

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 998 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 36
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 $0.00033 $0.00998
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00499
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00100

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3f26386911f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

client-pricing 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 10d 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.

examples/skills/business/client-pricing/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Client Pricing Skill

Purpose: Prevent rate collapse. Enforce anchor-first pricing. Automate the quoting decision tree. Origin: Empirical calibration from real client engagements — rate collapse incidents and floor-as-opening negotiation failures. Both were preventable.

Core Principle

"AI commoditizes labor. It cannot commoditize judgment."

Pricing Hierarchy (defensibility axis): Time (❌) → Output (❌) → Deliverable (⚠️) → Outcome (✅)Access (✅✅)

Never price at the Time or Output layer. Price at Deliverable (minimum) or Outcome (preferred).

Tiered Pricing Table

Deliverable Type Anchor Floor Notes
Essay (1000–2000 words) $250 $150 Counter at $200 if pushback
Problem Set (SPSS, coding, math) $350 $250 Scope-dependent; +$50/additional test family
Capstone/Report (5000+ words) $1,000 $500 Multi-round negotiation expected
Presentation (slides + script) $300 $200 +$100 if design assets required
Speed Premium (< 48hr turnaround) +30% Non-negotiable surcharge
Complexity Premium (cross-domain) +20% E.g., engineering + writing + coding

The Negotiation Decision Tree

YOU: State anchor price
↓
CLIENT: "Too high"
↓
YOU: "What's your budget?" (NEVER counter against yourself)
↓
CLIENT names their number
↓
├─ (A) Within 20% of anchor → Counter midpoint, settle ±10%
├─ (B) 40-60% of anchor → Counter at floor + 20%, settle at floor + 10%
├─ (C) Below floor → "Sorry, [floor] is the lowest I can go"
│   ├─ Client accepts → Done
│   └─ Client walks → Let them (Dignity Premium)
└─ (D) Client ghosts → Follow up once at 24hr. No chase after.

Three rounds maximum. After round 3, you're haggling, not negotiating.

Anti-Patterns (Reflexion Archive)

Anti-Pattern Case Study Fix
Opening at floor Quoted at floor instead of anchor — left $50+ on the table Always open at anchor. Floor is your walk-away, not your opening
Rate collapse via speed Delivered fast, effective rate dropped to $83/hr vs $310/hr benchmark Price by deliverable complexity, not hours. Speed is your competitive advantage — don't let it compress price
Negotiating against yourself Generic pattern After stating anchor, SHUT UP. Let the client name their number
Scope creep without re-quote Client adds "just one more thing" Any addition > 10% of original scope triggers re-quote

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 10d ago First seen · 96 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 3f26386911f7

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client-pricing is a skill published in the GitHub repository winstonkoh87/Athena-Public (587 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 998 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.