finance_skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

finance_skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from JoelLewis/finance_skills. It costs 984 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for a single repository containing 91 Claude Code skills for financial services, including investing, compliance, advisory work, and trading operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when maintaining or navigating the finance-skills repository, especially its plugin manifests, marketplace catalog, skill directories, and domain organization.
Why use it?
They explain where the repository’s plugins and skills live and establish the filesystem as the source of truth for its catalog.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

This is JoelLewis/finance_skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on finance_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 finance_skills configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to JoelLewis/finance_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.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills

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CLAUDE.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Finance Skills — Project Instructions

What This Is

A mono-repo of Claude Code skill plugins for financial services. Skills teach Claude domain knowledge so it can assist with finance questions, build financial tools, and flag compliance concerns. The plugin catalog lives in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json; per-plugin manifests live in plugins/<name>/.claude-plugin/plugin.json. Skill lists and counts are derived from the plugins/*/skills/ directories — the filesystem is the source of truth.

Current State

91 skills across 7 plugin domains, organized under plugins/:

  • core (3 skills) — math foundations (returns, TVM, statistics)
  • wealth-management (38 skills) — investment knowledge, asset classes, portfolio construction, personal finance
  • compliance (17 skills) — US securities regulatory guidance (FINRA, SEC, ERISA, FinCEN, CFA Institute GIPS)
  • advisory-practice (12 skills) — advisor-facing systems, onboarding, CRM, portfolio management, proposals, billing
  • trading-operations (9 skills) — order lifecycle, execution, settlement, margin, exchange connectivity, operational risk
  • client-operations (8 skills) — account opening, maintenance, transfers, reconciliation, corporate actions, STP
  • data-integration (4 skills) — reference data, market data, integration patterns, data quality

Skills are installed into a project's .claude/skills/ via install.sh.

Working With Skills

Skill Structure

Each skill is a directory in plugins/<plugin-name>/skills/ containing a SKILL.md and optionally a scripts/ subdirectory with Python reference implementations. The SKILL.md teaches domain knowledge; scripts provide runnable computation.

Template

All skills follow this template:

  • No Purpose, Layer, or Direction sections in the body. Triggering is carried entirely by the frontmatter description; the body starts with domain content (Core Concepts).
  • Core Concepts — the domain knowledge
  • Worked Examples — concrete scenarios with analysis. When the body exceeds ~250 lines, move worked examples to references/examples.md inside the skill directory and link to them from the body.
  • Common Pitfalls — mistakes to avoid
  • Cross-References — links to related skills
  • Time anchoring: any indexed threshold, rate, limit, or effective date carries an as-of anchor (e.g. "$X as of 2026", "effective March 2026"). Never state an inflation-indexed number bare.
  • Script-bearing skills include a ## Running the script section with the exact invocation (arguments and expected output) and a --verify mode that self-checks the script's outputs against the SKILL.md examples.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 10d ago First seen · 81 lines · 984 tokens per session scan A b9b0152c8ed4

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finance_skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository JoelLewis/finance_skills (184 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 984 tokens to every session, about $0.0049 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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