Advise finance accounting skills
Skill the-long-ride/skill-master/skills/advise-finance-accounting-skills
Routed skill-design catalog for AI agents with one /skill-master command, npm scaffolding, validation, and cross-runtime guidance.
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Use when a human wants to design, evaluate, or improve AI agent skills for finance, accounting, budgeting, forecasting, invoices, expense review, financial reporting, close workflows, or revenue operations analysis
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Finance And Accounting Skill Advisor
Overview
Advisor for designing, evaluating, and improving AI agent skills in the finance & accounting domain. Use this skill to turn a vague skill idea into a compact skill blueprint, not to perform the domain work itself.
When To Use
Use when a human asks to design, review, improve, migrate, publish, or validate an AI agent skill for finance & accounting. Use when trigger quality, workflow shape, failure recovery, output format, references, scripts, or validation need improvement. Do not use when the human wants the agent to directly perform the finance & accounting task instead of designing the skill.
Inputs And Tools
- User's skill idea, draft
SKILL.md, target runtime, example prompts, and any existing references, scripts, or assets. - Repository skill files, routing metadata, and validation reports when improving an existing repository.
- Read-only inspection first; ask before edits, publishing, running commands, or spawning agents.
Workflow
- Separate skill-design advice from target-domain execution.
- Identify the finance workflow: budget, forecast, close, invoice review, expense audit, variance analysis, revenue report, or board finance summary.
- Define source systems, accounting period, currency, entity, and reporting basis.
- Specify calculation rules, approvals, and materiality thresholds.
- Separate analysis from booking, payment, or approval actions.
- Define reconciliation and audit-trail requirements.
- Return a finance-skill blueprint with validation checks.
Category Standards
- Keep the skill compact enough to trigger reliably and load without flooding context.
- Prefer reusable reference files and scripts for heavy domain-specific details.
- Trace every number to a source or formula.
- Preserve accounting period, entity, and currency context.
- Do not approve payments, book journal entries, or change records without explicit authorization.
- Separate actuals, forecast, and assumptions.
- Flag anomalies and missing support.
- Include audit-friendly output.
Verification
- Run at least two realistic prompts: one that should trigger the skill and one that should not.
- Check that the skill asks for missing inputs before giving brittle advice.
- Confirm failure modes include recovery behavior, not only warnings.
- Confirm validation commands or manual checks are safe for the target runtime.
Checklist
- Examples show concrete input and expected output.
- Verification can be repeated by a human or another agent.
- Trigger description names finance, accounting, budget, forecast, invoice, expense, close, revenue, or reporting.
- Workflow defines source systems and period.
- Skill defines controls and approval boundaries.
- Failure modes cover missing receipts, formula errors, stale data, currency mismatch, and unauthorized payments.
- Output format includes sources, assumptions, and reconciliation status.
- Validation includes a mismatched-total example.
Nice To Have
- Trigger collision notes for adjacent skills.
- PASS/PARTIAL/FAIL verification rubric.
- Chart of accounts reference.
- Metric dictionary.
- Close checklist.
- Variance-analysis template.
- Approval matrix.
Example Skill Ideas
- Invoice review skill.
- Budget variance skill.
- Month-end close checklist skill.
- Revenue report skill.
Examples
Input: "Help me design a skill for finance & accounting workflows that reviews drafts and flags missing evidence." Output: A compact skill blueprint with trigger description, ordered workflow, resources, failure recovery, validation prompts, and output format.
Input: "This finance & accounting skill triggers too often and gives generic advice." Output: A revision plan that narrows triggers, moves heavy details to references, adds examples, and defines repeatable verification.
Failure Modes
- Numbers do not reconcile: show the difference and likely source.
- Supporting document is missing: mark the item unresolved.
- Payment or approval is requested: require authorization and summarize controls.
- Accounting treatment is unclear: recommend review by finance owner.
Human Verification
Score the revised skill before calling it ready:
Discovery: PASS | PARTIAL | FAIL
Content: PASS | PARTIAL | FAIL
Verification: PASS | PARTIAL | FAIL
Critical gaps:
1. <gap>
Required fixes:
1. <fix>
Decision: READY | NEEDS REVISION
Output Format
Return:
Skill concept: <name>
Finance workflow: <workflow>
Trigger description draft: <Use when...>
Source and period:
- <source>
Controls:
- <control>
Validation:
- <check>
Failure recovery:
- <mode and recovery>