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Counteroffer Decoder
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-18
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-resignation
Decode a counteroffer after you resign — what the raise, promotion promise, or title bump really signals, the statistics-informed risks of staying, and a clear-eyed decision framework. Use when asked my company countered my resignation, should I accept a counteroffer, they offered me more to stay, or decode this retention offer. Produces a component-by-component decode with 🔴🟡🟢 severity, the questions that expose which promises are real, and the stay/go decision sheet.
What to give it
▸The counteroffer's exact contents — verbal or written; note which is which (it matters enormously)
▸Why they resigned — money, growth, manager, mission, the new opportunity itself; the counter can only fix some of these
▸The new offer they'd be declining — what gets given up if they stay
▸History — had they raised these issues before? A raise that took a resignation is data about the next raise
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Every component decoded against what it *signals*, not just its face value
✓The original resignation reason anchors the analysis throughout
✓Day-after risks stated as risks with reasoning, never as certainties or folklore statistics
✓Every promise has a verification question that would convert it to writing
✓The decision sheet takes a position with reasoning
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not cite "80% of counteroffer-acceptors leave within a year" folklore as fact — the honest version is the mechanism (unfixed reasons resurface), not a fake number
Do not treat every counter as an insult — genuine corrections exist; decode, don't preach
Do not let the flattery of being countered into the analysis — the offer prices your replacement cost, and it's the *terms* that carry information
Do not weigh verbal promises as offer components — until written, they're 🔴 and weigh nothing
Do not decide on comp alone when the resignation wasn't about comp — say so plainly
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
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