Anticipatory Selling is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the deal-management sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/anticipatory-selling/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when deals reach Step 5+ or when win rates at Steps 5-7 are low.
The Anticipatory Selling Claude Code skill is built for sales development reps, account executives, revenue operations teams, and customer success managers. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/anticipatory-selling curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/anticipatory-selling/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/anticipatory-selling/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/anticipatory-selling/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/anticipatory-selling/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\anticipatory-selling\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{anticipatory-selling-2026,
author = {ClaudSkills},
title = {Anticipatory Selling [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/anticipatory-selling/}
}Browse all Sales skills in the ClaudSkills registry, or explore these other picks from the same category:
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