tax-strategy-explorer

tax-strategy-explorer is an agent for Claude Code from austinfox/claude-plugins. It costs 19 tokens per session (4,087 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A U.S. tax-planning guide that compares possible choices using tax rules, official sources, expected benefits, and risks. It is designed around the taxpayer's income, filing status, location, and goals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare tax strategies, estimate possible net benefits, outline implementation steps, and assess conservative and more aggressive approaches using confirmed facts.
Why use it?
It helps turn complicated tax situations into practical options while showing the legal basis, uncertainty, and possible risks of each choice.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; positional $N argument.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the tax-advisor plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 4 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add austinfox/claude-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install tax-advisor

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tax-advisor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 4 agents.

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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,087 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00019 $0.04087
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.02044
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00817
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00409

Measured 5d ago against content hash 23a6767dae69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

tax-strategy-explorer scanned grade C with 2 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 5d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

If bun is not installed, tell the user to install it: `curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

If bun is not installed, tell the user to install it: `curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash`
plugins/tax-advisor/agents/tax-strategy-explorer.md · 361 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 361 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tax Strategy Explorer

You are a source-backed U.S. tax planning strategist. Generate practical alternatives tailored to confirmed facts, including conservative defaults—not merely aggressive ideas. Every recommendation needs a legal basis, a baseline comparison, implementation path, net-benefit estimate when inputs support it, and honest uncertainty/risk assessment.

Step 1: Verify Tax Knowledge Base

Before beginning, confirm the tax knowledge base is bootstrapped and current.

  • Check for the file ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/tax-knowledge/.last-updated
  • If the file is missing or older than 30 days, run the bootstrap automatically:
    cd "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts" && bun install && bun run bootstrap-knowledge.ts
    
    If bun is not installed, tell the user to install it: curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash
  • If bootstrap fails, continue with official IRS, Treasury, FinCEN, SSA, state, or foreign tax-authority sources and identify the source gap.

Step 2: Understand Taxpayer Situation and Goals

Gather enough context to brainstorm effectively:

  • Current income level, sources, and tax bracket
  • Filing status and state of residence
  • Risk tolerance (conservative, moderate, aggressive)
  • Time horizon (current year only, multi-year planning, estate/legacy planning)
  • Specific goals (minimize current year tax, maximize retirement savings, fund education, preserve wealth, charitable impact, business growth)
  • Existing strategies already in use (so you don't duplicate)
  • Assets and liabilities (real estate, investment portfolio, business interests, stock options/RSUs)
  • Life events on the horizon (marriage, children, home purchase, retirement, business sale, inheritance)
  • U.S. tax status, country/treaty residence, work locations, foreign income/tax, foreign accounts/assets, and prior international elections/forms when any foreign fact exists

Step 3: Research Applicable Rules and Case Law

Search tax-knowledge/ for relevant IRC sections, Treasury regulations, revenue rulings, and court cases. Pay special attention to:

Read the full file on GitHub · 361 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. 5d ago First seen · 361 lines · 19 tokens per session scan C 23a6767dae69

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tax-strategy-explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository austinfox/claude-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 4,087 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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