trade-quote-builder
Build a trade quote that wins the job and protects the margin — materials and labor itemized, assumptions and exclusions stated, variations priced by rule, and the professional one-page layout customers trust. Use when a tradesperson says 'help me quote this job', 'I keep losing money on jobs', 'customer wants a price for X', or 'how do I quote a day rate vs fixed'. Produces a ready-to-send quote plus the internal costing sheet behind it.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill trade-quote-builder --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.
# Trade Quote Builder Skill Most trade quotes lose money in the writing, not the doing: labor guessed optimistic, materials priced from memory, and — the killer — no exclusions line, so "while you're here, could you also…" becomes free work. A professional quote is two documents: the internal costing sheet (honest hours × real rate + materials + margin) and the customer's one-pager (clear scope, what's included, what isn't, how variations get priced). This skill builds both, and it prices the *variation rule* in advance — because the profitable jobs are the ones where "extra" was defined before it happened. ## What This Skill Produces - The **internal costing sheet**: labor (tasks × honest hours × rate), materials with waste factor, plant/access costs, margin — the math the customer never sees but the price depends on - The **customer quote**, one page: scope in plain words, itemized or fixed-price sections, inclusions, **exclusions** (the load-bearing paragraph), variation rule, validity window, payment terms pointer - A **fixed-vs-day-rate recommendation** for this specific job with the reasoning (unknowns push day-rate; defined scope earns fixed) - The **assumption flags**: what
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What does the trade-quote-builder skill do?
Build a trade quote that wins the job and protects the margin — materials and labor itemized, assumptions and exclusions stated, variations priced by rule, and the professional one-page layout customers trust. Use when a tradesperson says 'help me quote this job', 'I keep losing money on jobs', 'customer wants a price for X', or 'how do I quote a day rate vs fixed'. Produces a ready-to-send quote plus the internal costing sheet behind it.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill trade-quote-builder --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.