sox-testing

sox-testing is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins. It costs 65 tokens per session (2,018 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of work materials for testing internal financial controls under SOX 404, the part of the Sarbanes-Oxley law covering controls over financial reporting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Selecting test samples, preparing workpapers and assessing controls in areas such as revenue, purchasing, payroll, financial close and IT controls.
Why use it?
It helps organise control tests and document evidence, findings and possible control weaknesses for audit review.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see [CONNECTORS.md](../../CONNECTORS.md)..

Part of the finance plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Selecting test samples, preparing workpapers and assessing controls in areas such as revenue, purchasing, payroll, financial close and IT controls.

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About the project

Knowledge Work Plugins is an open-source collection of Claude extensions organized around roles such as productivity, sales, and customer support. Each plugin combines role-specific guidance, connectors, commands, and sub-agents so knowledge workers can use Claude with their team’s tools and processes. The catalogue entries are examples of, or workflows from, this plugin collection.

anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins · 23,911 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/knowledge-work-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/sox-testing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install finance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,018 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 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 13 Mar 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 $0.00065 $0.02018
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01009
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00404
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00202

Measured 4d ago against content hash 5e5939a070a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sox-testing 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 4d 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:

finance/skills/sox-testing/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SOX Compliance Testing

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.

Important: This command assists with SOX compliance workflows but does not provide audit or legal advice. All testing workpapers and assessments should be reviewed by qualified financial professionals before use in audit documentation.

Generate sample selections, create testing workpapers, document control assessments, and provide testing templates for SOX 404 internal controls over financial reporting.

Usage

/sox <control-area> <period>

Arguments

  • control-area — The control area to test:
    • revenue-recognition — Revenue cycle controls (order-to-cash)
    • procure-to-pay or p2p — Procurement and AP controls (purchase-to-pay)
    • payroll — Payroll processing and compensation controls
    • financial-close — Period-end close and reporting controls
    • treasury — Cash management and treasury controls
    • fixed-assets — Capital asset lifecycle controls
    • inventory — Inventory valuation and management controls
    • itgc — IT general controls (access, change management, operations)
    • entity-level — Entity-level and monitoring controls
    • journal-entries — Journal entry processing controls
    • Any specific control ID or name
  • period — The testing period (e.g., 2024-Q4, 2024, 2024-H2)

Workflow

1. Identify Controls to Test

Based on the control area, identify the key controls. Present the control matrix:

Control # Control Description Type Frequency Key/Non-Key Risk Assertion
[ID] [Description] Manual/Automated/IT-Dependent Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly/Annual Key High/Medium/Low [CEAVOP]

Control types:

  • Automated: System-enforced controls with no manual intervention
  • Manual: Controls performed by personnel with judgment
  • IT-dependent manual: Manual controls that rely on system-generated data

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 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. 4d ago First seen · 219 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 5e5939a070a2

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sox-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins (23,911 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 2,018 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 2026-09-03.

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