hiring-contractors SKILL.md skillA
hiring-contractors from leadmagic/gtm-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add leadmagic/gtm-skills/hiring-contractors@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- leadmagic/gtm-skills
- Path
skills/founder-led/hiring-contractors/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 8, 2026
- Size
- 7,137 bytes
- Repository stars
- 76
- License
- MIT
Hire and manage contractors for SaaS startups — where to find them, how to structure engagements, IP assignment, rates by role, and management practices that produce quality work without full-time overhead. Use when hiring freelance developers, designers, writers, or any contract talent. Triggers on: "hire contractor", "freelance developer", "contract work", "outsource development", "find a designer", "contract vs employee", or any contractor hiring request.
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
# Hiring Contractors ## Overview Contractors give you talent without full-time commitment. Done right, they accelerate product development at a fraction of the cost of a bad full-time hire. Done wrong, you pay for code you don't own and work you can't use. This skill covers sourcing, structuring engagements, IP protection, rate negotiation, and management practices that make contractor relationships productive rather than painful. ## Authoritative Foundations - **IRS — Independent contractor or employee (common-law rules)** — Classify workers by behavioral control, financial control, and the relationship; misclassification creates tax liability. - **California AB5 — ABC test** — California presumes employment unless all three ABC conditions are met; check state rules before engaging a contractor. - **Deel — International contractor agreements** — Use localized contracts and compliant payments for cross-border contractors, including IP assignment. ## When to Use - "Hire a freelance developer" - "Find a contractor for my SaaS" - "Contract vs full-time employee" - "How much should I pay a contractor?" - "Where to find freelance talent" - "Structure a contractor agreement" …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add leadmagic/gtm-skills/hiring-contractors@sha256:aea4725d372544a3The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_fpnipgqg3x5fjymv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 8, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 23 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-01 | ca0d2ec | 7,137 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-02 | a19750a | 6,951 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-10 | e030e67 | 6,945 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-10 | 17b6e1f | 7,160 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-10 | 9f00d65 | 7,161 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-08 | 07ce0cd | 6,901 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 (7137 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
leadmagic/gtm-skills · 76 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fpnipgqg3x5fjymv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=leadmagic/gtm-skills/hiring-contractors GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/aea4725d372544a321fde5191db5d6ad75866b402f790b9eaae3b1cbd057eee3
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.