procurement-and-sourcing SKILL.md skillA
procurement-and-sourcing 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/procurement-and-sourcing@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/operations/skills/procurement-and-sourcing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260916.e72e404, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 29, 2026
- Size
- 3,991 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
Buys well — specifying need, running competitive sourcing, negotiating, and category strategy before a contract exists. Use this to run an RFP or vendor selection, negotiate a purchase, consolidate spend across a category, decide between single and multiple suppliers, or bring uncontrolled spending under management.
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
# Procurement and sourcing This is everything before signature: deciding what to buy, from whom, and on what terms. `operations:vendor-management` takes over afterward — performance, renewals, exit. ## Specify the need, not the product Most bad purchases are decided before any supplier is contacted, when a requirement is written as a product someone already wanted. Specify the outcome and the constraints; let suppliers propose how. Separate genuine requirements from preferences, and be honest about which is which. A requirements list that only one supplier satisfies is a purchase order with extra steps, and everyone involved knows it. Involve the people who will live with the choice. Procurement that optimizes price against a specification the users did not agree to produces a cheap thing nobody uses. ## Competition is the leverage Price is set by the credible presence of an alternative, not by negotiating skill. The single most effective act in sourcing is having a real second option — and being willing to take it. Run a fair process: same information to every bidder, same questions answered for all, scoring …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/procurement-and-sourcing@sha256:3f50194659e2f51eThe 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mzleqenzn676k5i3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 29, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 9 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260916.e72e404 latest | 2026-09-16 | e72e404 | 3,991 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.0757404 | 2026-09-01 | 0757404 | 3,652 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.4a2c133 | 2026-08-29 | 4a2c133 | 3,248 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 (3991 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_mzleqenzn676k5i3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/procurement-and-sourcing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3f50194659e2f51e1dcf76be7f35454988b7851638b20dd072a57bca27c20f8b
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.