Most people overpay for everything because nobody taught them to negotiate. This isn't about being aggressive or manipulative — it's about knowing your position, understanding the other side's position, and finding a number that works for both. This skill covers real-world negotiation for the situations that actually matter: hiring contractors, buying used cars, cutting medical bills, haggling at flea markets, negotiating rent, and setting rates for your own work. It also covers barter and trade — swapping skills and labor when money is tight, which is both older and more practical than most…
Negotiation Trade is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/negotiation-trade/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when someone needs to negotiate a price, hire a contractor, dispute a bill, buy or sell used goods, or wants to trade skills and labor instead of money.
The Negotiation Trade 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 116,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/negotiation-trade curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/negotiation-trade/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/negotiation-trade/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/negotiation-trade/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/negotiation-trade/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\negotiation-trade\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/negotiation-trade/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. Negotiation Trade 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{negotiation-trade-2026,
author = {ndesv21},
title = {Negotiation Trade [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/negotiation-trade/}
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