Severance Review

Severance Review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zgbrenner/agentcounsel. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,982 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review of a severance or separation agreement—the contract that sets the terms for ending someone’s employment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a first review from the employee’s or employer’s perspective, especially when checking payment terms, claim releases, confidentiality or competition restrictions, and other open questions.
Why use it?
It explains what the agreement covers, including released legal claims and restrictions, and lists issues that need an attorney’s attention before signing. It is draft legal work, not legal advice.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for a first review from the employee’s or employer’s perspective, especially when checking payment terms, claim releases, confidentiality or competition restrictions, and other open questions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zgbrenner/agentcounsel/severance-review
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 zgbrenner/agentcounsel --skill severance-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zgbrenner/agentcounsel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,982 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 $0.00037 $0.02982
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01491
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00596
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00298

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1411b1c800ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Severance Review 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.

skills/employment/severance-review/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Severance Review

Purpose

Produce a structured, attorney-ready review of a severance or separation agreement. The skill identifies the key provisions, assesses their scope and risk from the perspective of the indicated party, flags claims that may not be waivable and statutory requirements that must be confirmed, and surfaces issues for attorney resolution. This is draft legal work product — not legal advice.

Use When

  • A user asks to "review this severance agreement" or "what am I giving up if I sign this?"
  • An employee or employer has received a proposed separation agreement and needs a first-pass structured review.
  • Counsel needs a provision-by-provision issues list to begin their own analysis.
  • A user wants to understand what claims a release covers before agreeing or rejecting.
  • The user phrases it as: "help me understand what this says," "is this a good deal," or "what should we look at before signing?"

Required Inputs

  • The full agreement text: uploaded or pasted. Do not review from a description — the actual document text is required.
  • Reviewing party: employee/departing worker or employer/company. The analysis will be framed from this party's perspective.
  • Jurisdiction: the state, province, or country whose law governs the agreement, or flag as unknown.
  • Employee age: confirm whether the employee is age 40 or over, as this affects statutory disclosure and timing requirements. If unknown, flag for attorney confirmation.

If the agreement text is not provided, stop and request it. Do not summarize, analyze, or opine on an agreement that has not been provided.

Do Not Use When

  • The document is a general employment contract rather than a severance or separation agreement (use contract-risk-review or a general contract review skill).
  • The termination has not yet occurred and the question is whether to proceed with it (use termination-risk).
  • The user is asking whether a particular claim is legally viable or what damages they might recover — those questions require legal advice from counsel, not this skill.
  • The user wants to draft a severance agreement from scratch rather than review an existing one (a separate drafting skill applies).

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 146 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 1411b1c800ef

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Severance Review is a skill published in the GitHub repository zgbrenner/agentcounsel (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,982 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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