severance-agreement-decoder
Decode a severance agreement before you sign it — what you're giving up, what's negotiable, and the deadlines that decide your leverage. Use when asked to decode my severance, is this severance offer normal, review my separation agreement, or should I sign this release. Produces a clause-by-clause decode with ranked red flags, the money math (severance vs what you're releasing), the consideration-period clock, and the asks worth making.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill severance-agreement-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.
# Severance Agreement Decoder Skill A severance agreement is a purchase: the company is buying a release of claims, and the price is negotiable exactly once — before you sign. This skill decodes what's actually being bought and sold, in the week you have to decide, while the shock is still loud. ## What This Skill Produces - **The trade, stated plainly** — what they pay vs what you release, in one paragraph - **Clause-by-clause decode** with 🔴🟡🟢 severity - **The clock** — consideration and revocation windows (age-40+ rules differ), with dates computed - **The asks worth making** — ranked by success likelihood, with wording ## Required Inputs Ask for these only if not provided: - **The agreement text** (paste; partial is workable — name what's missing) - **The basics:** tenure, role, base pay, unvested equity, and the stated severance amount - **Rough location** — release enforceability and pay-out rules vary by jurisdiction; never guess it - **What matters most** — cash, healthcare runway, the narrative/references, or equity ## Framework: What to Walk - **The release scope** (🔴 zone): claims released vs claims that legally *can't* be released (unemployment, workers' comp, agenc
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: What to Walk
- Output Format
- Severance Decode: [company]
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the severance-agreement-decoder skill do?
Decode a severance agreement before you sign it — what you're giving up, what's negotiable, and the deadlines that decide your leverage. Use when asked to decode my severance, is this severance offer normal, review my separation agreement, or should I sign this release. Produces a clause-by-clause decode with ranked red flags, the money math (severance vs what you're releasing), the consideration-period clock, and the asks worth making.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill severance-agreement-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.