home-contractor-quote-decoder
Decode a home renovation or repair quote — allowances that aren't prices, exclusions that become change orders, payment schedules that shift risk, and what a comparable-bids check should cover. Use when someone asks 'is this contractor quote fair', 'decode this renovation bid', 'what should be in a contractor contract', or 'why do these three bids differ so much'. Produces a section-by-section decode, the allowance and exclusion audit, payment-schedule risk analysis, and the questions that make bids comparable.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill home-contractor-quote-decoder --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Home Contractor Quote Decoder Skill The most expensive number in a renovation quote is usually one that isn't there: the allowance that runs out, the exclusion that becomes a change order, the "TBD" that becomes time-and-materials. This skill decodes the quote the way a construction manager reads a bid — hunting the gaps between what's written and what the finished job requires — and turns three incomparable bids into one comparable question set. It reads documents; it doesn't judge workmanship. ## What This Skill Produces - A section-by-section decode: scope, materials, allowances, exclusions, schedule, payment terms - The allowance audit — every allowance vs. what that item realistically requires, flagged where it's a teaser - The exclusion-to-change-order map: what's not in this price that the finished job will need - Payment-schedule risk read, and the question set that makes competing bids comparable ## Required Inputs Ask for these only if they aren't already provided: - **The quote/contract text** — full document preferred; decode what's provided and name the missing sections (a one-page quote for a $60k job is itself a finding). - **The project as the homeowner understand
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: Severity Scale
- Output Format
- Contractor Quote Decode: [project — contractor, amount]
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
- Based On
What does the home-contractor-quote-decoder skill do?
Decode a home renovation or repair quote — allowances that aren't prices, exclusions that become change orders, payment schedules that shift risk, and what a comparable-bids check should cover. Use when someone asks 'is this contractor quote fair', 'decode this renovation bid', 'what should be in a contractor contract', or 'why do these three bids differ so much'. Produces a section-by-section decode, the allowance and exclusion audit, payment-schedule risk analysis, and the questions that make bids comparable.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill home-contractor-quote-decoder --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.