the-price-pushback
Simulate the client who grinds on your price — the budget theater, the competitor quote, the scope squeeze — against your actual offer, with a debrief on where you caved and what holding would have sounded like. Use when asked simulate a client negotiating my rate, practice price pushback, they said I'm too expensive, or stress-test my pricing conversation. Produces the negotiation transcript with the client's private playbook notes, the deal outcome, and a debrief on every concession with its stronger alternative.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill the-price-pushback --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.
# The Price Pushback Skill Every freelancer loses the same negotiation for years before noticing it's the same negotiation: the sharp intake of breath, the mysterious budget ceiling, the competitor who's "half your price," the request to "just trim the number, same scope." This skill plays the client running that playbook against your real offer — each move labeled in their private notes — then debriefs every point where you softened, with the exact words that would have held. The goal isn't winning every deal; it's never again negotiating against yourself. ## What This Skill Produces - **The transcript** — the pricing conversation, 10–16 exchanges, with the client's private note naming each move as they run it - **The outcome** — deal / no-deal / deal-at-what-terms, and what the client's notes say they'd *actually* have paid - **The debrief** — every concession moment, the pressure move that caused it, and the hold that was available ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **The offer as quoted** — price, scope, terms; a package structure if one exists (see [pricing-your-services](../pricing-your-services/SKILL.md)) - **The floor** — the number below which the work los
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Client's Playbook
- Output Format
- Transcript
- The Outcome
- Debrief — out of character
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the the-price-pushback skill do?
Simulate the client who grinds on your price — the budget theater, the competitor quote, the scope squeeze — against your actual offer, with a debrief on where you caved and what holding would have sounded like. Use when asked simulate a client negotiating my rate, practice price pushback, they said I'm too expensive, or stress-test my pricing conversation. Produces the negotiation transcript with the client's private playbook notes, the deal outcome, and a debrief on every concession with its stronger alternative.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill the-price-pushback --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.