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payroll-prep

An AI agent skill from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins, scored 70 out of 100 by code.

70/ 100B

Code score by group

  • Spec20/20
  • Description14/20
  • Procedure13/15
  • Done criteria4/15
  • Resources7/10
  • Scripts2/8
  • Safety7/7
  • Upkeep3/5

It loses the most points in Done criteria (11), the group that checks whether there is a checklist and a step that verifies the work.

What the author says it does

Gets payroll ready to run without anyone getting shorted: pulls timesheets from Gusto, QuickBooks Payroll, or an uploaded spreadsheet, totals regular, overtime, and PTO hours by person, flags every anomaly it finds — missed punches, overtime spikes, rate changes, mid-period hires and terminations, hours off the schedule — and stages the run for the owner to approve line by line before a dollar moves. Anomalies are always raised, never quietly corrected. Once the owner runs it, the journal posts to the ledger or goes to the bookkeeper. Reach for this whenever payroll comes up at all — "run pay…

This is the description in the skill's own SKILL.md, written by its author, not by SkillCheatSheet.

Repository
anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
Folder
small-business/skills/payroll-prep
License
Apache-2.0
GitHub stars
35,519
SKILL.md lines
140
Other files
5

Add payroll-prep to your agent

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill payroll-prep

The command uses the open skills CLI. A skill is instructions and scripts your agent will follow, so read it first: open the folder on GitHub at the commit that was scored.

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