Sales Agent Skills for Prospecting to Closing
Sales skills for AI agents cover the full pipeline: prospecting to find people who might have the problem you solve, qualifying whether an opportunity is real or just a polite conversation, discovery that gets their situation in their own words before you pitch, proposing an offer that maps to the pain you heard, negotiating terms rather than just price, and closing plus expanding into the next sale inside the same account. Use the ranked list by starting where your pipeline is weakest, not where it is most comfortable. Read each skill's description against the sub-topic it belongs to, and pick one that matches the stage you are actually stuck at. If two look close, prefer the one whose scope is narrower.
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Start with these.
Sales is a pipeline: find, qualify, discover, propose, negotiate, close — then expand if you earned it.
These are the closest matches for this work. Start with the first one and open it to install.
- Rank 01View Agent SkillDirect
prospecting
NotableWhen the user wants to find, qualify, and build a list of prospects to reach out to, across B2B SaaS, general B2B, or local small businesses. Also use when the user mentions "prospecting," "build a prospect list," "find leads," "lead list," "outbound list," "target account list," "ICP-fit accounts," "find local businesses," "find my first customers," "design partners," "signal-based outbound," "buying signals," "intent data," "job change alerts," "waterfall enrichment," "Clay table," "lookalike accounts," "catch-all emails," "account tiering," or "research this account before I reach out." Always verify emails before they reach a sequence, and never scrape LinkedIn. Define audiences in Sales Navigator and pull contacts from licensed data. Covers list building, signals, enrichment, verification, and account research. For the outreach itself (copy, sending setup, LinkedIn, cadences, replies), see cold-email. For researching competitors, see competitor-profiling.
57,450 · popularity - Rank 02View Agent SkillDirect
sales-discovery-questions
Builds a sequenced sales discovery question set - pain, root cause, impact, urgency - sized to the call, with follow-up ladders and branch triggers.
8,005 · popularity - Rank 03View Agent SkillDirect
sales-objection-handling
Diagnoses what a sales objection really means and writes spoken rebuttal scripts for price, timing, competitor, authority, status-quo, and trust objections.
8,041 · popularity - Rank 04View Agent SkillDirect
cold-email
NotableWrite B2B cold emails and follow-up sequences that get replies. Use when the user wants to write cold outreach emails, prospecting emails, cold email campaigns, sales development emails, or SDR emails. Also use when the user mentions "cold outreach," "prospecting email," "outbound email," "email to leads," "reach out to prospects," "sales email," "follow-up email sequence," "nobody's replying to my emails," or "how do I write a cold email." Covers subject lines, opening lines, body copy, CTAs, personalization, and multi-touch follow-up sequences. For warm/lifecycle email sequences, see emails.
109,195 · popularity - Rank 05View Agent SkillDirect
firecrawl-lead-research
Produces pre-meeting lead intelligence briefs with company research, recent news, talking points, pain points, and outreach angles before a sales call.
31,166 · popularity - Rank 06View Agent SkillDirect
sales-forecast-diagnostic
Diagnoses why a sales forecast is unreliable - stage inflation, sandbagging, stale close dates, zombie deals - separating data, behavior, and demand problems.
6,584 · popularity - Rank 07View Agent SkillDirect
persona-sales-ops
Manages sales workflows via Google Workspace: tracking deals in sheets, scheduling calls, client comms, meeting prep, and weekly pipeline digests.
28,960 · popularity - Rank 08View Agent SkillDirect
Lead Research Assistant
Researches company and contact information for sales outreach, producing company briefs, contact profiles, pain points, and outreach angles with fit scores.
4,136 · popularity
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- Rank 09View Agent SkillDirect
sales-outreach-personalization
Turns prospect signals into ranked personalization angles for outreach, each pairing a sourced signal with the problem it implies and a one-line hook.
8,031 · popularity - Rank 10View Agent SkillDirect
sales-outbound-sequence
Plans a touch-by-touch outbound cadence - channel, day, touch count, spacing, multi-threading, exit and recycle rules - with pre-committed metric thresholds.
8,005 · popularity - Rank 11View Agent SkillDirect
cold-call-opener
Writes the opening 5-30 seconds of a live outbound cold call with a tailored opener, testable variants, delivery notes, and a measurement plan.
7,728 · popularity - Rank 12View Agent SkillDirect
sales-icp-definition
Defines the ideal customer profile at sales-leadership altitude with firmographic, technographic, behavioral, and intent criteria plus a weighted scoring rubric and disqualifiers.
8,237 · popularity - Rank 13View Agent SkillDirect
sales-pipeline-coverage-modeling
Models pipeline coverage relative to quota using win-rate-derived ratios, segment targets, timing, seasonality, and pipeline-gap math.
8,237 · popularity - Rank 14View Agent SkillDirect
sales-enablement
NotableWhen the user wants to create sales collateral, pitch decks, one-pagers, objection handling docs, or demo scripts. Also use when the user mentions 'sales deck,' 'pitch deck,' 'one-pager,' 'leave-behind,' 'objection handling,' 'deal-specific ROI analysis,' 'demo script,' 'talk track,' 'sales playbook,' 'proposal template,' 'buyer persona card,' 'help my sales team,' 'sales materials,' or 'what should I give my sales reps.' Use this for any document or asset that helps a sales team close deals. For competitor comparison pages and battle cards, see competitors. For marketing website copy, see cop
102,692 · popularity - Rank 15View Agent SkillDirect
sales-call-review
Scores one sales call transcript against an anchored rubric - opener, discovery, objection handling, close - quoting the transcript and naming one focus behavior.
8,016 · popularity - Rank 16View Agent SkillDirect
sales-meeting-recap
Turns raw sales call notes into a structured recap email with owned next steps and mutual close plan items, restating buyer pain in their own words.
8,013 · popularity - Rank 17View Agent SkillDirect
deal-value-calc
Builds the ROI and business case for one deal: value drivers, full investment, ROI, payback, three conservative-first cases, and a forwardable one-page case.
7,729 · popularity - Rank 18View Agent SkillDirect
cold-email-subject-line-tester
Generates, scores, and split-tests email subject lines with angle-distinct variants, a numeric scorecard, and a test plan with sample size and decision metric.
7,738 · popularity - Rank 19View Agent SkillDirect
sales-account-tiering
Designs the account tier layer downstream of a fit score: cutoffs, tier names, rep-to-account capacity caps, coverage model per tier, and recalibration cadence.
8,208 · popularity - Rank 20View Agent SkillDirect
sales-account-segmentation
Designs the account segmentation model between ICP and tiering: signal layers, weighted fit score calibrated from closed-won deals, whitespace mapping, and CRM encoding.
8,000 · popularity - Rank 21View Agent SkillDirect
revops
NotableWhen the user wants help with revenue operations, lead lifecycle management, or marketing-to-sales handoff processes. Also use when the user mentions 'RevOps,' 'revenue operations,' 'lead scoring,' 'lead routing,' 'MQL,' 'SQL,' 'pipeline stages,' 'deal desk,' 'CRM automation,' 'marketing-to-sales handoff,' 'data hygiene,' 'leads aren't getting to sales,' 'pipeline management,' 'lead qualification,' or 'when should marketing hand off to sales.' Use this for anything involving the systems and processes that connect marketing to revenue. For cold outreach emails, see cold-email. For email drip ca
98,379 · popularity - Rank 22View Agent SkillDirect
cold-email-deliverability
Reviews a cold email draft and sending setup for deliverability: SPF/DKIM/DMARC, sender reputation, body mechanics, and legal compliance by region.
7,759 · popularity - Rank 23View Agent SkillDirect
Pipedrive Automation
Automates Pipedrive CRM workflows including deal management, pipeline tracking, stage automation, activity tracking, and sales reporting.
4,054 · popularity - Rank 24View Agent SkillDirect
sales-kickoff
Router for a 27-skill sales collection that routes a sales task to the right skill and bootstraps a shared sales-context artifact.
8,172 · popularity - Rank 25View Agent SkillPossible
sales-market-sizing
Estimates TAM, SAM, and SOM for a market to ground sales capacity, territory, and quota planning.
8,220 · popularity - Rank 26View Agent SkillPossible
sales-quota-setting
Designs how sales quotas are derived via top-down/bottom-up reconciliation, ramp-adjusted capacity modeling, over-assignment cushion, and territory allocation.
8,017 · popularity - Rank 27View Agent SkillPossible
sales-hiring
Employer-side hiring workflow for SDR/BDR and AE roles with scorecards, structured interview loops, mock-call work samples, and 30-60-90 ramp plans.
8,202 · popularity - Rank 28View Agent SkillPossible
sales-org-structure
Designs a sales organization's structure: role mix, topology, SDR-to-AE ratio, hunter/farmer split, span of control, and segment specialization.
8,001 · popularity - Rank 29View Agent SkillPossible
sales-comp-design
Designs sales compensation plan structure: pay mix, performance measures, accelerator curves, SPIFs, draws, and role plans for SDR, AE, and CSM seats.
7,988 · popularity - Rank 30View Agent SkillPossible
sales-career
Coaches one person through landing and growing a sales career, covering interview prep, skill-gap roadmaps, and offer evaluation.
8,197 · popularity - Rank 31View Agent SkillPossible
sales-radar
Builds a personalized watch list of sales information sources - podcasts, newsletters, communities, and people to follow - matched to role and time budget.
8,191 · popularity - Rank 32View Agent SkillPossible
co-selling-strategy
Designs the operating model for direct sales and partner sellers collaborating on shared deals: deal registration, credit/attribution split, and rules of engagement.
3,945 · popularity - Rank 33View Agent SkillPossible
partner-channel-conflict
Writes channel conflict rules of engagement between direct sales and partners: account segmentation, deal registration, escalation ladders, and governance.
4,126 · popularity - Rank 34View Agent SkillPossible
sales-funnel-blueprint
NotableTurn an offer into a concrete multi-step sales funnel spec - page-by-page structure, price ladder, copy outline and the metrics each step must hit. Use when asked to build a sales funnel, marketing funnel, landing page flow, lead magnet funnel, webinar funnel, tripwire or VSL funnel, when planning a product launch page flow, or when someone asks "what pages do I need" for selling something online.
54,576 · popularity - Rank 35View Agent SkillPossible
customer-research
Conducts and synthesizes customer research from transcripts, surveys, reviews, and interviews to ground positioning and messaging.
105,518 · popularity - Rank 36View Agent SkillPossible
competitor-profiling
NotableWhen the user wants to research, profile, or analyze competitors from their URLs. Also use when the user mentions 'competitor profile,' 'competitor research,' 'competitor analysis,' 'profile this competitor,' 'analyze competitor,' 'competitive intelligence,' 'competitor deep dive,' 'who are my competitors,' 'competitor landscape,' 'competitor dossier,' 'competitive audit,' or 'research these competitors.' Input is a list of competitor URLs. Output is structured competitor profile markdown files. For creating comparison/alternative pages from profiles, see competitors. For sales-specific battle
75,314 · popularity - Rank 37View Agent SkillPossible
marketing-mindset
A marketer's operating mindset for growth and client-acquisition tasks including cold outreach, positioning, and evaluating marketing ideas.
50,138 · popularity - Rank 38View Agent SkillPossible
affiliate-onboarding-sequence
Designs the onboarding sequence that carries a newly approved affiliate from approval to first tracked conversion, with touch plan and activation nudges.
4,073 · popularity - Rank 39View Agent SkillPossible
joint-gtm-planning
Plans one joint go-to-market motion with a chosen partner: joint value proposition, co-marketing campaign shape, launch sequencing, budget, and lead-sharing agreement.
4,018 · popularity - Rank 40View Agent SkillPossible
sales-to-cs-handoff
Designs the sales-to-CS handoff process after a deal closes: data transfer, timing SLAs, kickoff pattern, and CS acceptance step.
6,436 · popularity
What this topic covers
Each sub-topic groups Agent Skills for a specific situation.
- Prospect
- Find people who might have the problem you solve.
- Qualify
- Is this a real opportunity, or a polite conversation?
- Discover
- Their situation, in their words, before you pitch.
- Propose
- A specific offer that maps to the pain you heard.
- Negotiate
- Terms, not just price.
- Close & expand
- The signature, and the next sale inside the same account.
Frequently asked questions
- Which sales stage should I automate first?
- Start with the stage where deals stall most often for you. Prospecting and qualifying are common entry points because they run on repeatable criteria, while discovery and negotiation depend more on judgment you may want to keep.
- How is this list ordered?
- It is ranked by observed search demand, with direct matches to the Sales topic placed first and a cap on how many skills any single publisher can occupy. That keeps the top of the list varied rather than dominated by one source.
- Can one skill cover the whole pipeline?
- The sub-topics run from prospect through close and expand, and each is a distinct job. A skill scoped to qualifying is not the same tool as one scoped to proposing, so expect to combine several rather than load a single catch-all.
- What separates qualifying from discovery?
- Qualifying answers whether this is a real opportunity or a polite conversation. Discovery comes after, and its job is getting their situation in their words before you pitch.
How to install an Agent Skill
Start with the first skill on this page. Claude Code reads a SKILL.md once it is in the skills directory:
- Claude Code — copy the SKILL.md for prospecting into ~/.claude/skills/prospecting/ for yourself, or .claude/skills/prospecting/ to share it with a project.
- From the registry — run npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills@prospecting.
- Or download prospecting from its source and place that SKILL.md in the directory above.
How to choose Check the source and the skill’s own instructions before you install. Official and Notable describe where a skill comes from.