vendor-management skillA
vendor-management is agent-read markdown (skill) from cbrock84/headcount: Selects, contracts, and manages suppliers and vendors — requirements, evaluation, negotiation support, onboarding, performance management, and exit. Use this to choose a vendor, run a selection process, structure a service agreement's operational terms, manage an underperforming supplier, plan an exit or migration, or assess concentration and continuity risk..
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What the file says
# Vendor management ## Define requirements before looking at options Written before any demo: what the vendor must do, the volume and service level required, what must integrate with what, and the constraints that are genuinely non-negotiable. Requirements written after seeing a product describe that product. This is the most common way selections are decided before they are run. Separate **must-have** from **nice-to-have** and weight them in advance. Weighting after scoring is how a preferred vendor wins a process designed to be objective. ## Evaluating - **Reference checks with customers of your size and use case.** A reference running a tenth of your volume tells you nothing about whether it scales. - **Test the actual failure modes**, not the demo path. What happens when data is malformed, volume spikes, or an integration times out? - **Assess the vendor, not just the product** — financial stability, roadmap direction, support responsiveness, and whether you are a meaningful customer to them. Being a rounding error to your critical supplier is a risk in itself. - **Total cost including your side**: implementation, integration, migration, training, and the …
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How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/vendor-management@git:20260916.e72e404mdr add cbrock84/headcount/vendor-management@sha256:0d8ae18ce7cb427fPin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
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| git:20260916.e72e404 latest | 2026-09-16 | e72e404 | 3,564 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.aa45383 | 2026-09-01 | aa45383 | 3,225 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.f80dcb5 | 2026-08-28 | f80dcb5 | 2,854 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
cbrock84/headcount · 1,664 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-17 · branch main
API
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