it-contractors-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

it-contractors-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from AlexTeplovCPA/it-contractors-skills. It costs 1,941 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository guide for client-facing AI workflows that help Canadian IT contractors organize tax information for CPA review or tax software. It defines the project’s scope and limits, including that it does not give tax advice or replace a CPA.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or editing the repository’s contractor tax-preparation workflows, summaries, form mappings, missing-item checks, or CPA handoff materials.
Why use it?
It helps agents handle sensitive tax workflows consistently while avoiding unsupported conclusions about filing positions, accuracy, or completeness.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

This is AlexTeplovCPA/it-contractors-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on it-contractors-skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything it-contractors-skills configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to AlexTeplovCPA/it-contractors-skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlexTeplovCPA/it-contractors-skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlexTeplovCPA/it-contractors-skills

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CLAUDE.md · 483 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 483 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md - Claude adapter for it-contractors-skills

This is Claude-facing repository guidance for it-contractors-skills.

The canonical workflows live in skills/*/SKILL.md. They are platform-neutral and should remain usable by Codex, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or another capable AI agent.

Claude-specific setup notes belong in this file or in docs/platforms/claude.md, not inside canonical skill workflows.


Client-facing AI workflow skills for Canadian IT contractors.

This repository contains structured preparation workflows for users who want to:

  • organize their tax information
  • prepare for CPA review
  • or enter their return into tax software themselves

These workflows organize, map, and flag information. They do not:

  • provide tax advice
  • verify completeness or accuracy
  • determine final filing positions
  • replace CPA judgment

Built by Alex Teplov, CPA.


Repository Purpose

This repository helps a Canadian IT contractor move from messy inputs to a structured result.

End outputs may include:

  • grouped-by-form self-entry summary
  • CPA handoff summary
  • missing items and open questions summary

This is a client-facing system, even if the internal design is modular and form-aware.


Repository Scope

Use this repository for:

  • collecting and organizing tax documents
  • identifying income sources
  • identifying expense categories
  • mapping likely amounts to T1 and T2125 fields
  • gathering GST/HST facts
  • organizing instalments and tax payments
  • organizing foreign and platform income
  • preparing summaries for self-entry or CPA handoff

Do not use this repository for:

  • generic self-employed workflows
  • e-commerce workflows
  • accountant internal review workflows
  • bookkeeping sign-off workflows
  • legal or technical tax analysis
  • final filing decisions

Core Strategy

This repository uses a layered skill design.

Broad intake skills

Organize the overall file.

Examples:

  • collecting-tax-documents
  • identifying-income-sources
  • identifying-expense-categories

Read the full file on GitHub · 483 lines

Changes

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it-contractors-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository AlexTeplovCPA/it-contractors-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,941 tokens to every session, about $0.0097 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 2026-08-31.

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