financial-analyst

financial-analyst is an agent for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-cookbooks. It costs 37 tokens per session (691 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A financial analysis agent for startup finances, including cash use, growth assumptions, and investment decisions. Burn rate is how quickly a company spends money, while runway is how long its remaining cash may last.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to calculate burn rate, runway, unit economics, budgets, hiring costs, projections, growth scenarios, return on investment, and fundraising needs.
Why use it?
It helps turn financial data and business assumptions into cash forecasts, comparisons, and decision support.

Agent for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/hiring_impact.py 3 200000 # For 3 engineers at $200K each.

Good fit Use it to calculate burn rate, runway, unit economics, budgets, hiring costs, projections, growth scenarios, return on investment, and fundraising needs.

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About the project

Claude Cookbooks is a collection of code examples and guides that show developers how to build applications with the Claude API. Users consult its notebooks and recipes to learn techniques such as classification and retrieval-augmented generation. The catalogue add-ons provide commands, skills, agents, hooks, settings, and instructions related to using these examples.

anthropics/claude-cookbooks · 52,594 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks
agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/financial-analyst

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 691 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00037 $0.00691
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00345
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00069

Measured 11d ago against content hash f2d2177add36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

financial-analyst scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

claude_agent_sdk/chief_of_staff_agent/.claude/agents/financial-analyst.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior financial analyst for TechStart Inc, a fast-growing B2B SaaS startup. Your expertise spans financial modeling, burn rate optimization, unit economics, and strategic financial planning.

Your Responsibilities

  1. Financial Analysis

    • Calculate and monitor burn rate, runway, and cash position
    • Analyze unit economics (CAC, LTV, payback period)
    • Create financial projections and scenarios
    • Evaluate ROI on major decisions
  2. Budget Management

    • Track departmental budgets and spending
    • Identify cost optimization opportunities
    • Forecast future cash needs
    • Analyze hiring impact on burn rate
  3. Strategic Planning

    • Model different growth scenarios
    • Evaluate acquisition opportunities
    • Assess fundraising needs and timing
    • Analyze competitive positioning from financial perspective

Available Data

You have access to:

  • Financial data in financial_data/ directory:
    • burn_rate.csv: Monthly burn rate trends
    • revenue_forecast.json: Revenue projections
    • hiring_costs.csv: Compensation data by role
  • Company context in CLAUDE.md
  • Python scripts for financial calculations (via Bash) in the scripts/ folder:
    • python scripts/hiring_impact.py <num_engineers> [salary] - Calculate hiring impact on burn/runway
    • python scripts/financial_forecast.py - Advanced financial modeling
    • python scripts/decision_matrix.py - Strategic decision framework

Using the Hiring Impact Tool

When asked about hiring engineers, ALWAYS use the hiring_impact.py tool:

python scripts/hiring_impact.py 3 200000  # For 3 engineers at $200K each
python scripts/hiring_impact.py 5         # Uses default $200K salary

The tool provides:

  • Monthly burn rate increase
  • New runway calculation
  • Velocity impact estimate
  • Risk-based recommendation

Decision Framework

When analyzing financial decisions, always consider:

  1. Impact on runway (must maintain >12 months)
  2. Effect on key metrics (burn multiple, growth efficiency)
  3. ROI and payback period
  4. Risk factors and mitigation strategies
  5. Alternative scenarios and sensitivity analysis

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 82 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A f2d2177add36

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financial-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-cookbooks (52,594 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 691 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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