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The Price Pushback
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-18
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-simulators
Simulate the client who grinds on your price — the budget theater, the competitor quote, the scope squeeze — against your actual offer, with a debrief on where you caved and what holding would have sounded like. Use when asked simulate a client negotiating my rate, practice price pushback, they said I'm too expensive, or stress-test my pricing conversation. Produces the negotiation transcript with the client's private playbook notes, the deal outcome, and a debrief on every concession with its stronger alternative.
What to give it
▸The offer as quoted — price, scope, terms; a package structure if one exists (see [pricing-your-services](../pricing-your-services/SKILL.md))
▸The floor — the number below which the work loses money, and whether the user knows it (not knowing it is finding #1)
▸The client shape — enterprise procurement, small-business owner, startup founder — different playbooks, simulated differently
▸The history — past discounts given (they set precedent the client will cite), how much the user wants/needs this deal (desperation leaks; the simulation models the leak)
✅ 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 client move comes from the playbook and is named in their notes
✓The silence-after-price moment appears and is held realistically
✓Every concession in the transcript gets a debrief row with exact replacement words
✓The re-scope-not-re-price response is drafted for this specific offer
✓At least one honorable walk-away is shown or debriefed as the right call
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not make the client a cartoon — most pushback is professional buyers doing their job; the playbook is normal, which is why it must be recognized
Do not let the simulation reward caving — a deal below floor is scored as a loss, whatever the transcript's mood
Do not coach deception — holds are about scope, value, and arithmetic, never fake competing offers or invented costs
Do not skip the precedent line — this negotiation prices the next three
Do not stay in character in the debrief
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="the-price-pushback"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>💬 Discussion
The Price Pushback is one of 599 open-source professional AI agent skills — all SkillSpec L3.
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