What do I need to use Trade Quote Builder?

The job as the customer described it, plus; Their real numbers; The unknowns; Local context.

Is Trade Quote Builder 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.

Trade Quote Builder

Q: How do I know the Trade Quote Builder output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every task's hours include setup/cleanup/disposal — the forgotten; hours are named individually; The exclusions section is specific to this job, not boilerplate alone; The variation rule appears with a real rate and "in writing before it.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-26 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-trades

Build a trade quote that wins the job and protects the margin — materials and labor itemized, assumptions and exclusions stated, variations priced by rule, and the professional one-page layout customers trust. Use when a tradesperson says 'help me quote this job', 'I keep losing money on jobs', 'customer wants a price for X', or 'how do I quote a day rate vs fixed'. Produces a ready-to-send quote plus the internal costing sheet behind it.

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

What to give it

▸The job as the customer described it, plus — what the tradesperson saw/knows (photos described, site visit notes, access issues)

▸Their real numbers — hourly/day rate they need (not the one they say when nervous), typical material suppliers, travel distance

▸The unknowns — what can't be known until opened up (walls, boards, wiring)

▸Local context — is this a price-sensitive job or a reputation job?

✅ 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 task's hours include setup/cleanup/disposal — the forgotten

✓hours are named individually

✓The exclusions section is specific to this job, not boilerplate alone

✓The variation rule appears with a real rate and "in writing before it

✓starts"

✓The price floor is computed and stated internally — the user knows the

✓number below which walking away wins

✓No certifications, insurance, or guarantee claims invented — only what

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not price to win by shaving hours — the costing sheet is honest even

when the final price discounts; know what the discount costs

Do not bury exclusions in small print tone — they're customer-facing

clarity, not gotchas

Do not quote firm on sight-unseen unknowns; that's what assumption

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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