consulting-engagement-setup SKILL.md skillA
consulting-engagement-setup from modest-curator478/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add modest-curator478/claude-skills/consulting-engagement-setup@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
- modest-curator478/claude-skills
- Path
consulting/consulting-engagement-setup/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Mar 30, 2026
- Size
- 14,092 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
AUTO-TRIGGER: Apply this skill when the user is setting up, scoping, or pricing a consulting engagement as an independent practitioner. Trigger phrases include: "consulting engagement," "new client," "scoping the work," "what should I charge," "hourly versus retainer," "statement of work," "consulting proposal," "client wants to expand scope," "what to put in writing," or any situation where the user is transitioning from employee to consultant or managing the early stages of a client…
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
# Consulting Engagement Setup: Scoping, Pricing, and Protecting the Work This skill sets up an independent consulting engagement correctly from the start. Most first-time consultants either underprice the work, underscope the deliverables, or both. The result is an engagement that expands without additional compensation, produces resentment, and ends the client relationship faster than the work would have ended it naturally. The goal of this skill is not to protect the consultant from the client. It is to create a clear shared understanding of what is being purchased so that both sides can evaluate whether the work was done correctly. Ambiguity in scope is not a negotiating advantage. It is a liability that collects interest until it is paid with a damaged relationship. --- ## HOW TO SET UP THIS SKILL Provide: - What the client has asked for, in their words if possible - How the conversation started (referral, inbound, prior relationship) - Whether a rate has been discussed or if that conversation is still ahead - Your current read on what the client actually needs versus what they asked for - Any constraints: timeline, budget signals, internal politics at the client …
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How to install
mdr add modest-curator478/claude-skills/consulting-engagement-setup@sha256:200b95276bdda69bThe 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 30, 2026.
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Source
modest-curator478/claude-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ja7ducajj3hhlali GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=modest-curator478/claude-skills/consulting-engagement-setup GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/200b95276bdda69b15d9c5cc38a66e964082e1c89999beb2020df6831062531f
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