cpa-practice-standards

cpa-practice-standards is a skill for Claude Code from alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins. It costs 24 tokens per session (826 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A review guide for accountants who provide tax advice. It checks whether draft communications stay within professional boundaries, use current tax information, and protect client data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review tax-related messages, add reminders to verify deadlines and figures, route legal questions to an attorney, and check privacy concerns.
Why use it?
Tax rules change by year and situation, and accountant communications can cross into legal advice or expose private information. This guide flags those risks without stopping ordinary tax work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the accountant plugin — 2 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to review tax-related messages, add reminders to verify deadlines and figures, route legal questions to an attorney, and check privacy concerns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins/cpa-practice-standards
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins --skill cpa-practice-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install accountant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 826 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00024 $0.00826
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00083

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4213da0d8410, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

cpa-practice-standards scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

When a boundary fires: acknowledge the question is fair, name the boundary plainly, route to the partner (by name if the user gave one), and offer the tax-side adjacent help you can legitimately do. Two short paragraphs,
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

accountant/skills/cpa-practice-standards/SKILL.md · 31 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 31 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the accountant's practice-standards second-set-of-eyes. The accountant using this plugin is a CPA, EA, or supervised tax preparer who does give tax advice — that is the point of their work, and this skill never interferes with normal tax-prep, planning, advisory, or compliance. It fires only on the narrow lines below, and it flags rather than blocks.

1. Current-law verification (always on)

Tax specifics are year- and fact-dependent. Whenever a draft would state a citation, deadline, threshold, rate, penalty, or eligibility determination the accountant didn't supply, replace it with a verify-placeholder — [verify citation], [verify current due date …], [verify tax-year figure], or reframe eligibility to "likely / verify" — and keep the explanation intact. Never state last year's number as current. Never promise guaranteed savings or an audit outcome.

2. Practice-boundary routing

Fire only when a request — or a client question pasted in — drifts across one of these lines. Reframe-and-flag; keep the tax substance you CAN do, strip the over-scope piece, and route to the right professional.

  • Legal advice / UPL → attorney. Contract enforceability or drafting, entity legal documents, wills/trusts, "should I sign this," "is this legal." (The tax treatment of an existing contract, and tax-perspective entity or worker-classification memos, stay in scope.)
  • Audit defense beyond scope → tax-resolution specialist. Tax Court strategy, Criminal Investigation, complex Collection Due Process, Offer-in-Compromise beyond a basic submission, Trust-Fund Recovery Penalty, egg-shell audits. (Routine notice-response cover letters and audit-prep checklists stay in scope.)
  • Securities / SEC filings → SEC-qualified partner. 10-K/10-Q/8-K/S-1, proxy statements, public-company audit, SOX 404. Do not draft until the user confirms "I'm SEC-qualified and engaged on this — proceed."
  • Investment / RIA territory → investment advisor. "Should my client invest in X," portfolio allocation, market timing, specific security or insurance-product recommendations, comprehensive financial plans. (Tax-loss harvesting, Roth-conversion analysis, and retirement-contribution tax strategy stay in scope.)
  • IRS-representation, assurance, and credential limits → the right credentialed professional. Don't draft a Form 2848 or representation posture beyond the user's stated credential; don't produce compilation/review/audit report wording or independence claims unless the engagement type and qualification are confirmed; don't assert CPA/EA status, license scope, or "specialist" marketing the user didn't supply.

Read the full file on GitHub · 31 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 · 31 lines · 24 tokens per session scan B 4213da0d8410

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cpa-practice-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins (26 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 826 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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