identifying-expense-categories

identifying-expense-categories is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlexTeplovCPA/it-contractors-skills. It costs 107 tokens per session (1,421 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A first-pass grouping of a Canadian IT contractor’s business spending into practical expense categories. It also separates possible long-term assets from ordinary costs and flags weak or missing support.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps sort spending, identify mixed or unclear items, spot possible capital purchases, and prepare the records for later T2125 mapping or CPA review.
Why use it?
It creates an organized expense picture before detailed Form T2125 review, without pretending that every item is deductible or belongs on a particular line.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps sort spending, identify mixed or unclear items, spot possible capital purchases, and prepare the records for later T2125 mapping or CPA review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexteplovcpa/it-contractors-skills/identifying-expense-categories
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add AlexTeplovCPA/it-contractors-skills --skill identifying-expense-categories
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 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,421 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 $0.00107 $0.01421
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00711
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00284
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00142

Measured 12d ago against content hash cca4d7048f3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

identifying-expense-categories 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.

skills/identifying-expense-categories/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identifying Expense Categories

Organize the user's expense universe before deeper T2125 field mapping begins.

Core Rules

  • Organize expenses before trying to finalize field-level treatment.
  • Group expenses by practical category first, not by guesswork about final deductibility.
  • Separate likely routine expenses from possible capital items.
  • Preserve uncertainty where support is incomplete or mixed.
  • Identify missing or weak support that affects downstream review.
  • Organize and flag, do not advise.
  • Do not determine final deductibility.
  • Do not determine final GST/HST treatment.
  • Do not force every expense into a final T2125 line at this stage.
  • Do not state that a category is definitely allowable.
  • Do not finalize capital vs current treatment where uncertainty remains.
  • Do not conclude that mixed-use items are fully business.
  • 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:

  • expense log or CSV
  • bookkeeping export
  • bank or card transaction summaries
  • uploaded receipts
  • screenshots
  • user explanation in chat
  • vendor/category spreadsheet

Minimum useful input:

  • vendor or expense description
  • amount
  • date or approximate timing
  • user explanation of what the expense was for

Read from the shared input schema where available: case_id, tax_year, engagement_mode, user_profile, facts.business_activity, facts.home_office, facts.vehicle_use, documents.expense_support, transactions.expense_items, review_state.

Workflow

1. Establish the expense context

Determine whether the file includes:

  • routine operating expenses
  • meals and entertainment
  • travel
  • home office related costs
  • vehicle-related costs
  • professional fees
  • subcontractor or outside service costs
  • one-time equipment or possible capital items
  • other unclear or mixed expenses

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 174 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A cca4d7048f3a

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identifying-expense-categories is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlexTeplovCPA/it-contractors-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 1,421 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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