lbo-model

lbo-model is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/financial-services. It costs 57 tokens per session (3,734 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An Excel skill for completing leveraged-buyout models, which estimate the returns from buying a company with a combination of debt and investor money.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for private-equity deal models, investment-committee materials, sources-and-uses schedules, operating forecasts, debt schedules, and returns analysis.
Why use it?
It fills in and checks model formulas while preserving the structure of an existing template, reducing errors in transaction analysis.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python /mnt/skills/public/xlsx/recalc.py model.xlsx.

Part of the model-builder plugin — 3 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it for private-equity deal models, investment-committee materials, sources-and-uses schedules, operating forecasts, debt schedules, and returns analysis.

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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 · 34,747 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/financial-services/lbo-model

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install model-builder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,734 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 pass 4 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium analysis-evasion · line 1
    Suspicious Unicode normalization or mixed-script content
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
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 $0.00057 $0.03734
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01867
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00747
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00373

Measured 9d ago against content hash 19749a568d69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lbo-model 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 9d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • lbo-model — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • lbo-model — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
plugins/agent-plugins/model-builder/skills/lbo-model/SKILL.md · 275 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 275 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


TEMPLATE REQUIREMENT

This skill uses templates for LBO models. Always check for an attached template file first.

Before starting any LBO model:

  1. If a template file is attached/provided: Use that template's structure exactly - copy it and populate with the user's data
  2. If no template is attached: Ask the user: "Do you have a specific LBO template you'd like me to use? If not, I can use the standard template which includes Sources & Uses, Operating Model, Debt Schedule, and Returns Analysis."
  3. If using the standard template: Copy examples/LBO_Model.xlsx as your starting point and populate it with the user's assumptions

IMPORTANT: When a file like LBO_Model.xlsx is attached, you MUST use it as your template - do not build from scratch. Even if the template seems complex or has more features than needed, copy it and adapt it to the user's requirements. Never decide to "build from scratch" when a template is provided.


CRITICAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLAUDE - READ FIRST

Environment: Office JS vs Python

If running inside Excel (Office Add-in / Office JS environment):

  • Use Office JS (Excel.run(async (context) => {...})) directly — do NOT use Python/openpyxl
  • Write formulas via range.formulas = [["=B5*B6"]] — Office JS formulas recalculate natively in the live workbook
  • The same formulas-over-hardcodes rule applies: set range.formulas, never range.values for anything that should be a calculation
  • Use range.format.font.color / range.format.fill.color for the blue/black/purple/green convention
  • No separate recalc step needed — Excel handles calculation natively
  • Merged cell pitfall: Do NOT call .merge() then set .values on the merged range (throws InvalidArgument — range still reports original dimensions). Instead: write value to top-left cell alone (ws.getRange("A7").values = [["SOURCES & USES"]]), then merge + format the full range (ws.getRange("A7:F7").merge(); ws.getRange("A7:F7").format.fill.color = "#1F4E79";)

Read the full file on GitHub · 275 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. 9d ago First seen · 275 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 19749a568d69

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lbo-model is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/financial-services (34,747 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 3,734 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.