Every skill that follows — discovery, qualification, champion, close — operates on a deal that already exists. Prospecting is how the deal comes to exist at all, and it is the single most-avoided activity in the craft. "The number one reason for failure in sales is an empty pipeline, and the root cause of an empty pipeline is the failure to prospect" (Jeb Blount, Fanatical Prospecting). Reps procrastinate on it because it's uncomfortable and the rejection is immediate — so they bury themselves in admin, "research," and warm deals until the pipe runs dry 90 days later. The professional treats…
Prospect And Open is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the prospecting sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/prospect-and-open/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when the pipeline is thin or you need to open NEW conversations — proactively build a target list, sequence multi-touch outreach (call/email/social), open a cold conversation, and earn the first meeting. The most-avoided core craft of selling: no prospecting = an empty pipe = the #1 reason sellers fail.
The Prospect And Open 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 149,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/prospect-and-open curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/prospect-and-open/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/prospect-and-open/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/prospect-and-open/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/prospect-and-open/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\prospect-and-open\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/prospect-and-open/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. Prospect And Open is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Sales 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{prospect-and-open-2026,
author = {wastedcode},
title = {Prospect And Open [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/prospect-and-open/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-07-11 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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