Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add akiotanaka847/qaio-desktop --skill explain-my-variancegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akiotanaka847/qaio-desktopWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00121 | $0.01733 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00060 | $0.00866 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00024 | $0.00347 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00173 |
Grade A, and why
explain-my-variance 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Explain My Variance
Actuals vs. budget vs. prior period vs. same-period prior year. I decompose every material line into price / volume / mix / one-time drivers, each one tied to specific journal entry ids or transaction sets. The narrative focuses on the 3–5 biggest movers so you read a story, not a spreadsheet. Anything I can't explain, I label as residual rather than make up a cause.
When to use
- "why was operating expenses up in March" / "what drove revenue miss".
- "compare actuals to budget for {period}".
- "run variance analysis on {period}".
- Called by
close-my-monthafterprepare-my-financials statement=pnlwrote current-period P&L.
Connections I need
I run external work through Composio. Before this skill runs I check that the categories below are linked. Missing → I name the category, ask you to connect it from the Integrations tab, stop.
- No external connections required. I work entirely from your existing journal entries, P&Ls, and budget file.
This skill never blocks on a missing connection.
Information I need
I read your bookkeeping context first. For every required field that's missing I ask ONE plain-language question (best modality: connected app > file drop > URL > paste) and wait.
- The period to analyze — Required. Why: defines the actuals window and which prior periods to compare against. If missing I ask: "Which period are we running variance on, e.g. March 2025 or Q1 2025?"
- A finished P&L for the period — Required. Why: variance compares this period's P&L lines against baselines. If missing I ask: "Have we closed and generated the P&L for that period yet? If not, let's run that first."
- A chart of accounts — Required. Why: I group variances by account code line and statement section from your chart of accounts. If missing I ask: "Do we have a chart of accounts yet? If not, let's draft one first."
- A current budget — Optional. Why: lets me run actuals vs. budget alongside actuals vs. prior period. If you don't have one I keep going and note "no budget on file" in the report.
- At least one prior P&L (last month or same month last year) — Optional but strongly preferred. Why: gives me a baseline to compare against. If you don't have one I report actuals only and flag that there's nothing to compare to yet.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 84 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A 009bcdce7555
explain-my-variance is a skill published in the GitHub repository akiotanaka847/qaio-desktop (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 1,733 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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