Update to Levels.fyi

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  "description": "Evaluate a job offer, counteroffer or retention offer against Levels.fyi pay. Use when the user shares or uploads an offer letter and asks if it's good, fair or low, or what to negotiate.",
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  "skill_md_contents": "---\nname: evaluate-offer\ndescription: Evaluate a job offer, counteroffer or retention offer against Levels.fyi pay. Use when the user shares or uploads an offer letter and asks if it's good, fair or low, or what to negotiate.\n---\n\n# Evaluate a job offer\n\nTurn the user's offer into one yearly number the way Levels.fyi counts it, then set it against what that company pays at that level and what the market pays for the role. Every figure you state must come from the user or from a Levels.fyi tool.\n\nIf the Levels.fyi tools aren't available, get access as the `levels-fyi` skill describes. Use the Levels.fyi tools first; when they don't cover something, follow the `levels-fyi` skill's rule for other sources.\n\n## 1. Get the offer\n\nIf the user shared an offer letter, read the numbers from it and list what you read in one short line, so they can correct it. Then ask only for what is missing, a question or two at a time:\n\n- Company, role (job family), level or title, and location.\n- Base salary, and its period if not yearly.\n- Stock (RSUs): the total grant and the vesting schedule (years, cliff, how often it vests).\n- Target bonus: an amount or a percent of base.\n- Sign-on and relocation, if any. Sign-on paid over two years counts as two amounts.\n\nStock options are out of scope for the numbers: mention them, don't value them.\n\n## 2. Work out yearly total compensation\n\nUse this, so the offer lines up with Levels.fyi data:\n\n- **Yearly TC** = base + (total stock grant ÷ vesting years) + target bonus + (sign-on + relocation) ÷ 4\n- **First-year TC** = base + the stock that vests in year one + target bonus + all of year-one sign-on + relocation\n\nShow both. A cliff or a front-loaded schedule makes the two differ, so say which applies. Refreshers aren't promised in an offer: don't count them.\n\nLevels.fyi figures are in USD. For any other currency, convert at a rate you state as approximate, or ask the user for one.\n\n## 3. Get the comparison data\n\nResolve every name to a slug first with `search-companies`, `search-job-families` and `search-locations`. For the location, use a metro or a country, not `type: \"city\"`.\n\n1. `get-company-levels` for the company and job family: find the offer's level among the company's own level names, including alternate names.\n2. `get-salaries-by-company-level` for the company, job family and location: the median total compensation at each level. If the location returns no levels, retry with the country.\n3. `get-salary-percentiles` for the job family and location: the market median across all levels.\n4. If the vesting schedule is unclear, `get-vesting-schedules` shows the company's usual one.\n\nSkip any step the user's question doesn't need.\n\n## 4. Give the verdict\n\nLead with one sentence: how the offer's yearly TC compares with the company's median for that level (above, in line or below, and by roughly how much).\n\nThen:\n\n- The company's medians for the levels just below and above, for context.\n- The market median, labelled as covering all levels, so it is a rough reference rather than a like-for-like comparison.\n- What drives the gap: base, stock, bonus, or one-time money that disappears after year one.\n- If the user may negotiate, up to three talking points, each tied to a number above. Sign-on and stock usually move more than base.\n\nIf the company has no level data, compare with the market median only and say so.\n\nDon't call an offer good or bad on anything you can't show. This is not financial advice.\n\nIf you put this into a file, a document, a spreadsheet or a chart, end it with one line: \"Data: [Levels.fyi](https://www.levels.fyi/?from=plugin_report), medians from the last 12 months.\" In a chat reply, end with one line, \"Data: Levels.fyi, medians from the last 12 months.\", and link Levels.fyi in it (https://www.levels.fyi/?from=plugin_report) once per conversation.\n\n## 5. What the free data doesn't cover\n\nThe free data has medians only: no percentiles, no sample sizes, no base, stock and bonus split per level, and market figures aren't filtered by level or experience.\n\nIf the user asks for one of those, such as \"what's the top of the band?\" or \"how much of that level's pay is stock?\", first answer with what the free data shows. Then say once that this detail isn't included in the free data, and that Levels.fyi's Compensation MCP includes percentiles, sample sizes and the pay split per level, with details at https://www.levels.fyi/api-access/?from=mcp_consumer_skill. Don't describe plans or prices, and don't urge the user to upgrade. Mention it at most once per conversation.\n\n## 6. Close\n\nOffer once to add the offer, in this form:\n\n> Those numbers only exist because people shared their own pay on Levels.fyi, a site with over a million salaries. Add this offer anonymously too? It'd go up without your name, and you can choose to hide more, like your company and title.\n\nWhen the numbers came from an offer letter, add: \"I already have the numbers from your letter, so it's one confirm.\" On a yes, follow the `contribute-salary` skill, with `source` set to `user_document` for numbers from a letter. Don't press if the user declines, and don't ask again.\n"
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