client-red-flags SKILL.md skillA
client-red-flags from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/client-red-flags@git:20260805.5a0326cPins git:20260805.5a0326c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills
- Path
exports/openclaw/client-red-flags/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260805.5a0326c, committed Aug 5, 2026
- Size
- 4,949 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,475
- License
- MIT
Spot a bad client before you sign — the warning signs of the projects that turn into unpaid, scope-creeping nightmares, and how to screen, price, or decline them. Use when asked is this client a red flag, should I take this client, screening a difficult client, or how to avoid bad clients. Produces a read on the warning signs present (haggling, vagueness, disrespect, urgency, unrealistic expectations), what each predicts, screening questions to ask before committing, protective terms if you…
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
# Client Red Flags Experienced freelancers know: the worst projects announce themselves early. The client who haggles hard before you start, can't describe what they want, disrespects your time, or needs it "yesterday" tends to become the one who scope-creeps, pays late, and drains your energy. This reads the warning signs, tells you what they predict, and helps you screen, protect, or walk — before you're trapped. ## What This Skill Produces - **A red-flag read** — the warning signs present in this prospect and what each tends to predict (aggressive haggling → payment/scope issues; vagueness → endless revisions; disrespect early → worse later; false urgency → chaos) - **Screening questions** — what to ask before committing to surface the risks (budget, decision-maker, success definition, timeline realism) - **Protective terms** — if you proceed, the contract/process safeguards (deposit, milestone payments, tight scope, kill fee) that reduce the risk - **A proceed / protect / decline call** — a judgment based on the severity and your situation - **A graceful decline** — how to say no professionally without burning the bridge ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/client-red-flags@sha256:bb244cb9ab86b98fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260805.5a0326c, 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 Aug 5, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,475 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tsrzu4n2s6nj55aj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/client-red-flags GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bb244cb9ab86b98fb7c3322fcdcb1b3e59e55f9ec35ad69ed569a0260cbbf95a
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