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plan-payroll

An AI agent skill from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins, scored 75 out of 100 by code.

75/ 100B

Code score by group

  • Spec20/20
  • Description17/20
  • Procedure15/15
  • 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

Runs the payroll-confidence chain end to end — forecasts cash across the payroll window with cash-flow-snapshot, ranks and drafts overdue-invoice reminders with invoice-chase to close any gap, then assembles timesheets, flags every anomaly, and stages the run with payroll-prep. On Gusto the run is staged for the owner to submit; on QuickBooks Payroll, or with no payroll system, the last step is a validated run sheet the owner keys in. This chain never presses the payroll button. Builds on the ledger (MYOB, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Xero, or Zoho Books), with Gmail or M365, PayPal, Square, Stripe,…

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/plan-payroll
License
Apache-2.0
GitHub stars
35,519
SKILL.md lines
89
Other files
0

Add plan-payroll to your agent

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

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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