checking-gst-hst

checking-gst-hst is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlexTeplovCPA/it-contractors-skills. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fact-organizing guide for Canadian IT contractors dealing with GST/HST, a Canadian sales tax charged on many goods and services. It organizes registration, tax collection, and input-tax-credit information for review or handoff to an accountant.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize income, invoices, expenses, and prior GST/HST information before entering the facts yourself or sending them to a CPA.
Why use it?
It helps collect the relevant business facts without pretending to make the final tax or filing decision.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to organize income, invoices, expenses, and prior GST/HST information before entering the facts yourself or sending them to a CPA.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexteplovcpa/it-contractors-skills/checking-gst-hst
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add AlexTeplovCPA/it-contractors-skills --skill checking-gst-hst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlexTeplovCPA/it-contractors-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,413 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.
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 $0.00097 $0.01413
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00707
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00141

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8f40e1c36fb6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

checking-gst-hst 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 11d 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.

skills/checking-gst-hst/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Checking GST/HST

Review GST/HST registration, collection, and input tax credit facts for a Canadian IT contractor.

Core Rules

  • Organize and flag GST/HST facts, do not advise on compliance positions.
  • Do not determine final registration obligation.
  • Do not calculate net tax owing.
  • Do not determine final ITC eligibility.
  • Do not determine the correct GST/HST rate for any supply.
  • Preserve uncertainty where facts are incomplete.
  • Do not state that the user is or is not required to register.
  • Do not state that the user's GST/HST return is correct.
  • Do not state that the user is ready to file.
  • Use this phrase where relevant: "That is outside what this workflow covers. It is a question for a CPA before you file."

Inputs

Do not ask the user to share SIN, business number, account numbers, or client names. Use general descriptions and rounded amounts.

Accept any of:

  • output from identifying-income-sources
  • output from organizing-t2125-gross-business-income
  • prior year GST/HST return summary
  • invoice summaries or client contract descriptions
  • expense records for ITC purposes
  • user explanation in chat

Minimum useful input:

  • some indication of annual business revenue
  • description of the type of services provided
  • any known GST/HST registration details

Read from the shared input schema where available: case_id, tax_year, engagement_mode, user_profile, facts.business_activity, facts.gst_hst, documents.gst_hst_records, form_context, review_state.

Read from prior skill outputs where available: identifying-income-sources, organizing-t2125-gross-business-income.

Workflow

1. Confirm GST/HST review is relevant

Check whether the user earns income from a business activity in Canada. If income appears entirely employment income or exempt, note this and return an appropriate status.

2. Organize registration facts

Identify:

  • whether the user is currently registered for GST/HST
  • whether the user has a GST/HST number
  • approximate annual revenue across all business income sources
  • whether any income may be from zero-rated or exempt supplies

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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. 11d ago First seen · 163 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 8f40e1c36fb6

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checking-gst-hst is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlexTeplovCPA/it-contractors-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,413 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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