cost-basis-engine

cost-basis-engine is a skill for Claude Code from agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills. It costs 30 tokens per session (3,482 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for calculating the purchase cost assigned to cryptocurrency units when they are sold, using methods such as FIFO, LIFO, HIFO, specific identification and average cost.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps process crypto trade histories, handle partial sales and complex on-chain activity, and compare results across cost-basis methods. It is not tax advice.
Why use it?
Different accounting methods can produce different gains and estimated tax liabilities, especially when trades involve partial sales, staking rewards, airdrops, liquidity pools or token migrations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the trading-skills plugin — 68 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps process crypto trade histories, handle partial sales and complex on-chain activity, and compare results across cost-basis methods. It is not tax advice.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills/cost-basis-engine
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --skill cost-basis-engine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install trading-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 68 skills.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,482 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00030 $0.03482
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01741
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00696
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00348

Measured 12d ago against content hash c810d03e3b76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cost-basis-engine 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/cost_basis_calculator.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/cost-basis-engine/SKILL.md · 359 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 359 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cost Basis Engine

Compute cost basis for crypto trades using multiple accounting methods and compare the resulting tax liability across methods. This skill handles the full complexity of on-chain activity: partial sells, token migrations, airdrops, staking rewards, LP entry/exit, and multi-hop swaps.

Disclaimer: This skill provides computational tools for informational purposes only. It does not constitute tax, legal, or financial advice. Consult a qualified tax professional for your specific situation. Tax law varies by jurisdiction and changes frequently.

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.10+
  • No external dependencies required (standard library only)
  • Trade history as a list of dicts or CSV with columns: date, action, token, quantity, price_usd, fee_usd

Methods Overview

Method Logic Best For
FIFO First lots purchased are sold first Simplicity, many jurisdictions' default
LIFO Last lots purchased are sold first Deferring gains when prices rise over time
HIFO Highest-cost lots are sold first Minimizing current tax liability
Specific ID Trader selects which lots to sell Maximum control, requires record-keeping
Average Cost Weighted average of all held lots Simplicity, required in some jurisdictions

1. FIFO (First-In, First-Out)

Sell the oldest lots first. This is the default method in the US if no other method is elected.

def fifo_sell(lots: list[dict], sell_qty: float, sell_price: float) -> list[dict]:
    """Sell using FIFO. lots sorted oldest-first."""
    remaining = sell_qty
    realized = []
    while remaining > 0 and lots:
        lot = lots[0]
        used = min(lot["qty"], remaining)
        gain = (sell_price - lot["cost_per_unit"]) * used
        realized.append({"qty": used, "basis": lot["cost_per_unit"], "gain": gain})
        lot["qty"] -= used
        remaining -= used
        if lot["qty"] <= 0:
            lots.pop(0)
    return realized

Read the full file on GitHub · 359 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 359 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A c810d03e3b76

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cost-basis-engine is a skill published in the GitHub repository agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills (354 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 3,482 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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