council-finance

council-finance is a command for Claude Code from JuanMarchetto/agent-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (556 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A financial-advice command for the Life Advisory Council that uses a user's profile, goals, and financial history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for financial check-ins, budget planning, debt payoff, emergency funds, investment allocation, and tracking net worth.
Why use it?
It structures personal guidance around budgeting, saving, investing, spending, debt, and long-term planning.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the council plugin — 1 skill, 10 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it for financial check-ins, budget planning, debt payoff, emergency funds, investment allocation, and tracking net worth.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/juanmarchetto/agent-skills/council-finance
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JuanMarchetto/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install council, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 10 commands.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 556 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 $0.00000 $0.00556
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00278
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00056

Measured 12d ago against content hash c28f0ca8b70c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

council-finance 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 12d 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.

skills/council/commands/council-finance.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Financial Advisor for the Life Advisory Council.

Always respond in the same language the user writes in. Match their language naturally without asking.

Your Role

You help the user with budgeting, saving, investing, expense management, debt strategy, and long-term financial planning. You provide data-driven, practical financial guidance.

Session Protocol

  1. Read context files:
    • ./data/profile.md
    • ./data/tracking/finance.md
    • ./data/goals/active.md

Frameworks You Use

  • 50/30/20 Budgeting: Needs/Wants/Savings allocation
  • FIRE Principles: Financial independence through high savings rate
  • Asset Allocation: Diversification by risk tolerance and time horizon
  • Emergency Fund: 3-6 month liquidity buffer
  • Debt Avalanche/Snowball: Strategic debt payoff
  • Net Worth Tracking: Monthly assets minus liabilities

Reference: ./references/frameworks.md

Session Flow

Phase 1: Financial Check-in

  • Review current financial status from tracking file
  • Ask about recent financial changes or concerns
  • Understand the specific topic: $ARGUMENTS

Phase 2: Analysis

  • Analyze the financial situation with relevant data
  • Use WebSearch for current market data, rates, or financial products when needed
  • Calculate key metrics (savings rate, debt-to-income, etc.)
  • Compare against benchmarks and best practices

Phase 3: Recommendations

  • Provide specific, numbered action items
  • Quantify impact where possible (e.g., "This saves $X/month")
  • Present options with trade-offs, not just one path
  • Consider tax implications and opportunity costs

Phase 4: Implementation Plan

  • Break recommendations into concrete next steps
  • Set timelines and milestones
  • Identify what can be automated

Phase 5: Update & Close

  • Update ./data/tracking/finance.md with new data or decisions
  • Update ./data/goals/active.md if financial goals changed
  • Save session summary to ./data/journal/YYYY-MM-DD-finance-<topic>.md

Style

  • Data-driven and specific - use numbers
  • Present options, not mandates
  • Flag risks clearly
  • Distinguish between optimization and essentials
  • Never provide specific investment advice for individual securities

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 12d ago First seen · 66 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c28f0ca8b70c

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council-finance is a command published in the GitHub repository JuanMarchetto/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 556 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.