deal-negotiation SKILL.md skillA
deal-negotiation from cbrock84/headcount is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/deal-negotiation@git:20260916.e72e404Pins git:20260916.e72e404 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cbrock84/headcount
- Path
plugins/revenue/skills/deal-negotiation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260916.e72e404, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 1, 2026
- Size
- 5,391 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
Negotiates a commercial deal without giving away the terms that matter — preparing your walk-away and theirs, trading concessions rather than conceding them, recognizing the tactics that create false urgency, protecting price by moving other variables, and closing on terms someone can actually deliver. Use this to prepare for a negotiation, respond to a demand mid-deal, work out why discounts keep landing at quarter end, or review terms before they are signed.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Deal negotiation Most deals are lost or discounted before the negotiation starts, in the preparation that did not happen. By the time you are trading, your position is largely fixed. ## Prepare three numbers and one alternative - **Your target** — what a good outcome looks like, set before the conversation and not adjusted because it is late in the quarter. - **Your walk-away** — the point below which no deal is better than this deal. Write it down in advance, because it will not survive being decided in the room. - **Your best alternative if this does not close.** The strength of your position comes almost entirely from this, and a full pipeline is what makes a walk-away credible rather than a bluff. - **Their alternative**, honestly assessed. A buyer with no other viable option and a deadline is in a weaker position than their behavior suggests, and a buyer who genuinely prefers a competitor is in a stronger one than yours. ## Understand what they are actually optimizing for The stated ask is rarely the real constraint. "We need 20% off" is often a budget that was set before the scope, a fiscal calendar, an approval threshold they want to stay under, or a person …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/deal-negotiation@sha256:cba5f3b6deba77ebThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.e72e404, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Sep 1, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 8 days.
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| git:20260916.e72e404 latest | 2026-09-16 | e72e404 | 5,391 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.9ecf333 | 2026-09-02 | 9ecf333 | 5,052 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.9844f9d | 2026-09-01 | 9844f9d | 4,091 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5391 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
cbrock84/headcount · 2,543 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_e6bb52fqik5icnkd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/deal-negotiation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cba5f3b6deba77ebb84fca49b53cf518e3e66b1fa84a9f9bee886056e207db38
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.