Today's Agent Skill: Vendor Proposal Scorer
What It Does
Evaluating vendor proposals is tedious, inconsistent, and prone to recency bias — whoever pitches last often wins on vibes. This skill gives your agent a structured scoring rubric to objectively compare multiple proposals against your criteria before a single human hour is spent in review. The result is a ranked matrix your team can act on in minutes, not days.
How It Works
The skill ingests one or more vendor proposal documents alongside a set of weighted evaluation criteria you define once. It scores each proposal per criterion, flags information gaps where vendors went silent, and produces a ranked comparison table with per-score justifications. Disqualifying conditions (e.g., SOC 2 compliance) are checked first to eliminate non-starters before any scoring begins.
How to Deploy It
Drop a SKILL.md file containing this content into your agent's skills directory, or paste it into any SKILL.md-compatible system prompt. Trigger it by sharing your proposals and criteria in natural language — the agent handles extraction, weighting, and ranking from there.
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## Description
Automatically scores and ranks vendor proposals against user-defined weighted criteria. Produces a structured comparison matrix with per-criterion scores, flags information gaps, and outputs a ranked summary with rationale — eliminating evaluation inconsistency across reviewers.
## Trigger
User shares one or more vendor proposals (attached files or pasted text) alongside evaluation criteria. Phrases like "score these proposals," "compare these vendors," "rank these bids," or "evaluate these RFP responses" activate this skill.
## Input
- One or more vendor proposal documents (files or pasted text)
- Evaluation criteria (user-provided list, or agent infers from RFP if present)
- Optional: weight per criterion (e.g., "price is most important")
- Optional: disqualifying conditions (e.g., "must support SOC 2")
## Steps
1. Check disqualifying conditions first; eliminate non-qualifying vendors before scoring.
2. Parse each remaining proposal to extract claims relevant to each criterion.
3. If no criteria are provided, infer the top 3–5 from RFP language or ask the user.
4. Score each vendor per criterion on a 1–5 scale with a one-sentence justification.
5. Apply user-supCopy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.