# sales-pipeline-hygiene

Runs a checklist audit over an active pipeline snapshot: stale deals, close-date push anomalies and missing forecast-critical fields.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 21300 installs · ★ 1
- Author: Maya-Beth Finotti
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mbfinotti/revops-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/sales-pipeline-hygiene/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/sales-pipeline-hygiene

## What it does

The skill freezes a snapshot of open deals as of a stated date and runs rules against it. A deal counts as stale when Stage, Close Date or Amount has not changed — logged calls and emails do not qualify, since CRM activity does not prove the deal moved. Last-activity date serves as a second, independent trigger.

You get an exception list with one disposition per flagged deal, a remediation plan and a pass threshold. Ownership splits three ways: RevOps owns the definitions and the snapshot, the front-line manager owns the per-deal call, the rep owns the update. That split is what kills the argument — the manager arrives holding records that failed specific rules.

Before auditing, the skill asks what you can export from your system of record, which segments feed the pipeline, which rituals already exist and by what date the result must land. It does not rewrite stage definitions; that job belongs to `mbfinotti/revops-skills@pipeline-stage-definition-audit`. If stale deals make up more than 20-30% of pipeline value, the skill advises a pipeline amnesty before any enforcement.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill sales-pipeline-hygiene -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/sales-pipeline-hygiene/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/sales-pipeline-hygiene/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill sales-pipeline-hygiene -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/sales-pipeline-hygiene/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill sales-pipeline-hygiene -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/sales-pipeline-hygiene/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mbfinotti/revops-skills sales-pipeline-hygiene
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/sales-pipeline-hygiene/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill sales-pipeline-hygiene -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mbfinotti/revops-skills --path skills/sales-pipeline-hygiene
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/sales-pipeline-hygiene/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/revops-skills --skill sales-pipeline-hygiene -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/mbfinotti/revops-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/sales-pipeline-hygiene/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find deals that have not moved stages in months
- measure how much pipeline value is dead weight
- flag deals whose close date keeps slipping
- check which forecast-critical fields are empty
- clean the pipeline before a QBR

## Example prompts
- run a pipeline hygiene audit on the snapshot as of end of quarter
- show deals whose close date was pushed more than twice
- which forecast-critical fields are empty on open deals

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: sales-pipeline-hygiene
description: Run a periodic, checklist-based hygiene audit over an active pipeline snapshot - stale deals (no stage, close date, or amount change, not logged touches) flagged against segment-specific stage medians, close-date push-count anomalies, and missing forecast-critical fields - producing an exception list with a disposition per flagged deal, a remediation plan, and a pass threshold. Use whenever the user mentions pipeline hygiene, a stale deal audit, pipeline cleanup before a QBR, deals that keep pushing, a close date that keeps slipping, missing fields on deals, or "our pipeline is full of junk" - even if they never say "hygiene". Covers B2B and B2C/high-velocity/PLG. Do NOT use for rewriting stage definitions - use mbfinotti/revops-skills@pipeline-stage-definition-audit instead.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Maya-Beth Finotti
  version: "1.2.4"
---

# Pipeline Hygiene

Audit the deals sitting in the active pipeline right now - stale deals, close-date push anomalies, missing forecast-critical fields - and turn the findings into an exception list with one disposition decision per flagged deal, a remediation and communication plan, and a measurable pass threshold. Ownership is split three ways, not shared (ORM):

- RevOps owns the definitions, the snapshot, the automation, and the pre-published data package.
- The front-line manager owns the per-deal disposition and the coaching conversation.
- The rep owns the update and the evidence.

The split is what removes the argument - the manager arrives holding specific records that failed specific rules, not a general complaint. Splitting it the other way produces meetings that run on time and change nothing.

The audit's load-bearing definitional choice comes first: **meaningful activity means a change to Stage, Close Date, or Amount - not logged calls or emails** (ORM). Logged touches are activity in the CRM sense, but they do not indicate the deal moved, so a rule built on them can be satisfied without any progression - which is exactly how stale pipeline survives review after review. This is a live practitioner disagreement (many tools key on last-activity date); default to the field-change definition and use last-activity as a second, independent trigger - together, never interchangeably.

## Scope Boundaries

State these in the deliverable so the audit does not drift:
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