initiating-coverage

initiating-coverage is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/financial-services. It costs 90 tokens per session (7,335 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured workflow for creating an equity research initiation report, which is a first detailed report on a company by an investment analyst.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a company, build its financial model, estimate its value, create charts, or assemble the final report one task at a time.
Why use it?
It separates company research, financial modelling, valuation, charts, and report assembly so each stage can be checked before the next one begins.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Part of the equity-research plugin — 3 skills, 9 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to research a company, build its financial model, estimate its value, create charts, or assemble the final report one task at a time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/financial-services/initiating-coverage
About the project

Claude for Financial Services is a collection of agents, skills, commands, plugins, and data connectors for investment banking, equity research, private equity, and wealth-management workflows. Financial professionals use it to draft models, memos, research notes, and reconciliations for review by qualified people. The catalogue contains components from these workflows, including agents, skills, plugins, commands, and instructions.

anthropics/financial-services · 34,793 stars · on GitHub

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 anthropics/financial-services --skill initiating-coverage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install equity-research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 9 commands.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,335 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
  • Socket pass 4 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 4 May 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 $0.00090 $0.07335
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.03667
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.01467
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00734

Measured today against content hash 9d21c6e460bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

initiating-coverage 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 today.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/vertical-plugins/equity-research/skills/initiating-coverage/SKILL.md · 784 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 784 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Initiating Coverage

Create institutional-quality equity research initiation reports through a structured 5-task workflow. Each task must be executed separately with verified inputs.

Overview

This skill produces comprehensive first-time coverage reports following institutional standards (JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley format). Tasks are executed individually, each verifying prerequisites before proceeding.

Default Font: Times New Roman throughout all documents (unless user specifies otherwise).


⚠️ CRITICAL: One Task at a Time

THIS SKILL OPERATES IN SINGLE-TASK MODE ONLY.

If User Requests Full Pipeline

When user requests:

  • "Create a coverage initiation report for [Company]"
  • "Write an initiation report for [Company]"
  • "Do the entire equity research process for [Company]"
  • "Complete all 5 tasks for [Company]"
  • Any request that implies running multiple tasks or the entire workflow

REQUIRED RESPONSE:

  1. Ask which specific task to perform:

    I can help you create an equity research initiation report for [Company].
    This involves 5 separate tasks that need to be completed individually:
    
    1. Company Research - Research business, management, industry
    2. Financial Modeling - Build projection model
    3. Valuation Analysis - DCF and comparable companies
    4. Chart Generation - Create 25-35 charts
    5. Report Assembly - Compile final report
    
    Which task would you like to start with?
    
  2. When user explicitly requests all tasks together:

    I understand you'd like to complete the entire initiation report pipeline.
    Currently, this skill supports executing one task at a time, which allows
    for better quality control and review at each stage.
    
    We're working on a seamless end-to-end workflow that will make this process
    more automated, but for now, we'll need to complete each task separately.
    
    Would you like to start with Task 1 (Company Research)?
    
  3. Never automatically assume which task to start - always ask user to confirm.

Read the full file on GitHub · 784 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. today First seen · 784 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 9d21c6e460bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

initiating-coverage is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/financial-services (34,793 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 7,335 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 2026-09-12.

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