What do I need to use First-Hire Plan?

The business; The need; Budget & commitment; Contractor or employee leaning; Location.

Is First-Hire Plan free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

First-Hire Plan

Q: How do I know the First-Hire Plan output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Confirms readiness and defines a specific first role; Gives an honest contractor-vs-employee recommendation incl. classification risk; Provides a simple, fair hiring process with a work sample; Flags the obligations a first hire triggers (verify locally).

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-05 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-career

Plan your first hire — whether to hire at all yet, contractor vs employee, what role to hire, and how to do it right when you've never hired before. Use when asked to help me make my first hire, should I hire someone, contractor or employee, or how do I hire for my small business. Produces a readiness and role read (what to hand off first), a contractor-vs-employee decision for your situation, a lightweight hiring process (role definition, sourcing, a fair evaluation, an offer), the obligations to be aware of, and onboarding basics — flagging that employment/tax/legal rules are local. Not legal or tax advice.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

🗣 Say this to your agent

“I'm ready to make my first hire — where do I start?”“Should I hire a contractor or an employee?”“What should I hire for first in my small business?”“How do I hire someone when I've never done it before?”“What obligations do I take on when I hire my first employee?”

What to give it

▸The business — what you do, size, and where you're stretched

▸The need — what work you'd hand off, and how much of it

▸Budget & commitment — what you can afford, and how steady the need is

▸Contractor or employee leaning — any preference or constraint

▸Location — for the (varying) employment/tax obligations

✅ 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.

✓Confirms readiness and defines a specific first role

✓Gives an honest contractor-vs-employee recommendation incl. classification risk

✓Provides a simple, fair hiring process with a work sample

✓Flags the obligations a first hire triggers (verify locally)

✓Covers onboarding basics

✓States employment/tax rules are local / not legal advice

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Hiring a vague "helper"** with no defined role.

**Misclassifying an employee as a contractor** to cut cost.

**Gut-feel hiring** with no work sample or clear criteria.

**Ignoring payroll/tax/legal obligations.**

**No onboarding** — the hire flounders and doesn't reduce load.

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-mcp

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