Your first hire is a big, nervy step — get the role wrong or the classification wrong and it's costly. This helps you decide whether you're ready, what to hand off first, and whether a contractor or employee fits — then gives a simple, fair hiring process for someone who's never done it, plus the obligations to know about. It flags that employment, tax, and legal rules are local and this isn't legal advice.
First Hire Plan is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the business-ops sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/first-hire-plan/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: 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.
The First Hire Plan Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 177,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/first-hire-plan curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/first-hire-plan/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/first-hire-plan/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/first-hire-plan/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/first-hire-plan/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\first-hire-plan\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/first-hire-plan/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. First Hire Plan is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{first-hire-plan-2026,
author = {mohitagw15856},
title = {First Hire Plan [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/first-hire-plan/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-06 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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