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Severance Agreement Decoder
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-17
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-layoff
Decode a severance agreement before you sign it — what you're giving up, what's negotiable, and the deadlines that decide your leverage. Use when asked to decode my severance, is this severance offer normal, review my separation agreement, or should I sign this release. Produces a clause-by-clause decode with ranked red flags, the money math (severance vs what you're releasing), the consideration-period clock, and the asks worth making.
What to give it
▸The agreement text — paste; partial is workable — name what's missing
▸The basics: — tenure, role, base pay, unvested equity, and the stated severance amount
▸Rough location — release enforceability and pay-out rules vary by jurisdiction; never guess it
▸What matters most — cash, healthcare runway, the narrative/references, or equity
✅ 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.
✓The trade is stated as a purchase in the first section
✓Every silent item (equity/bonus/PTO/healthcare) is flagged as present, absent, or ask
✓The consideration/revocation dates are computed, not described
✓Any NEW restrictive covenant is flagged 🔴 loudly
✓Asks come with likelihood ranking and exact wording
✓The lawyer-hour line appears verbatim
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not soften the moment — the reader just lost their job; clarity is the kindness
Do not treat the offer as final — it's an opening bid bought with a release
Do not present jurisdiction-dependent release rules as universal
Do not let "standard agreement" pass unexamined — standard is what companies call their preferred terms
Do not advise signing or refusing — decode, price, and hand the decision back with dates
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:
<div data-pm-skill="severance-agreement-decoder"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>💬 Discussion
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