Rfp Responder Agent Skill

Use when an RFP, RFI, RFQ, security questionnaire, vendor questionnaire, or proposal request arrives and the team needs a structured…

Context cost
9.6k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
8 files · 70.7 kB3 scripts among them — read before you run
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—v2.8.0
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Use when an RFP, RFI, RFQ, security questionnaire, vendor questionnaire, or proposal request arrives and the team needs a structured response — parsing multi-section buyer-dictated requirements (MANDATORY vs WEIGHTED vs NICE-TO-HAVE), building a Shipley-method proof-point matrix mapping each requirement to a verifiable proof point, articulating 3-5 win-themes that ladder up across requirements, and producing a Shipley-derived winrate estimate that informs a bid / no-bid / partner-bid recommendation.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

commercialproof-pointsrfirfprfqshipleystructured-responsewin-theme

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md13.0 kB · preview
--- name: rfp-responder context: fork version: 2.8.0 author: claude-code-skills license: MIT tags: [commercial, rfp, rfi, rfq, shipley, win-theme, proof-points, structured-response, bid-management] compatible_tools: [claude-code, codex-cli, cursor, antigravity, opencode, gemini-cli] ---
12# rfp-responder
13
14## Purpose
15
16Help Bid Managers, Proposal Leads, and Directors of Sales answer five questions at the response-strategy moment:
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181. **What is this RFP actually asking?** (parse sections, tag every requirement MANDATORY / WEIGHTED / NICE-TO-HAVE, extract scoring criteria, surface deadlines and format constraints)
192. **What is our true fit?** (proof-point matrix per requirement: STRONG / PARTIAL / GAP, each backed by a verifiable source — case study, certification, customer quote, technical attestation, benchmark)
203. **What is our win-theme strategy?** (Shipley method: 3-5 themes that ladder up across requirements, not generic value-prop bullets)
214. **What is our realistic winrate?** (Shipley-derived factor model: fit, incumbent, relationship strength, decision-criteria alignment, late-entry, competitor count, deal size — produces estimate + confidence band)
225. **Should we bid?** (deterministic verdict: BID / PARTNER-BID / NO-BID with named factors driving the call)
23
24The skill surfaces GAPs explicitly. Leadership decides whether to close them, partner around them, or no-bid. **It never invents claims.**
25
26## When to use
27
28- A 30+ page RFP / RFI / RFQ has landed with a 7-14 day response deadline
29- A security questionnaire (SIG, CAIQ, custom-buyer) needs structured Q&A — not prose
30- The team is preparing a bid / no-bid review and needs a defensible winrate estimate
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,782 words
Files8
LicenceMIT
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈270
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
9,330
on trigger
The instruction body and 7 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
4.8%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 48% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

9.6k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

8 files, 70.7 kB on disk. Mostly text — the instructions the model reads — with 3 scripts in it that your client would run only if the instructions tell it to.

  • SKILL.md13.0 kB
  • assets/rfp_intake_template.md4.6 kB
  • references/rfp_anti_patterns.md9.1 kB
  • references/rfp_strategy_canon.md5.9 kB
  • references/shipley_method_canon.md5.8 kB
  • scripts/response_drafter.py12.5 kB
  • scripts/rfp_parser.py10.7 kB
  • scripts/winrate_predictor.py9.1 kB
What is not in it

A skill installs nothing and depends on nothing: it is a folder your client reads. This one carries 3 scripts beside the text, so the bundle is 8 files you can review in full before installing. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Rfp Responder · 9.6k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/sakibmouin-rfp-responder/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/rfp-responder" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/rfp-responder ] || { mv .claude/skills/rfp-responder "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/rfp-responder" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/rfp-responder"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add sakibmouin/rfp-responder

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/rfp-responder/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/sakibmouin-rfp-responder/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/rfp-responder" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/rfp-responder ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/rfp-responder "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/rfp-responder" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/rfp-responder" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/rfp-responder/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Version2.8.0
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencesakibmouin/rfp-responder

Versions

v2.8.0 is what is on the shelf; no release here carries a date. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

v2.8.0
  • No earlier releases have been published to the marketplace.
Pinning

The install command always fetches the release that is current the day you run it — v2.8.0 today — and cannot ask for an earlier one. The copy on your disk does not change until you run it again.

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