chart-of-accounts

chart-of-accounts is a skill for Claude Code from bromso/metapowers. It costs 9 tokens per session (493 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bookkeeping design task that creates a chart of accounts: a numbered list of the accounts a business uses to organize its financial activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define accounts for assets, liabilities, ownership, revenue, cost of goods sold, and expenses, including account types and normal balances.
Why use it?
It provides an account structure suited to the business instead of forcing every business into the same categories.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the bookkeeping plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to define accounts for assets, liabilities, ownership, revenue, cost of goods sold, and expenses, including account types and normal balances.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bromso/metapowers/chart-of-accounts
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 bromso/metapowers --skill chart-of-accounts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bromso/metapowers

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 9 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 493 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 $0.00009 $0.00493
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00246
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00049

Measured 12d ago against content hash 03d2da4d15e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chart-of-accounts 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.

plugins/bookkeeping/skills/chart-of-accounts/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chart of Accounts

Design a customized chart of accounts for "$ARGUMENTS". Structure the account hierarchy to match the business type, size, and reporting needs.

Prerequisites

None — utility skill, run anytime. Should be done before starting the bookkeeping cycle.

Process

  1. Understand the business:

    • What type of business? (service, retail, manufacturing, SaaS, etc.)
    • What size? (solo, small team, growing company)
    • What reporting is needed? (basic P&L, departmental, project-based)
    • Any industry-specific accounts? (inventory, WIP, deferred revenue)
  2. Design account structure:

    • Start from the shared template at shared/chart-of-accounts-template.md
    • Add industry-specific accounts
    • Remove accounts that don't apply
    • Adjust numbering for growth (leave gaps for future accounts)
    • Consider sub-accounts for detailed tracking
  3. Define account properties:

    • For each account: number, name, type, normal balance (debit/credit)
    • Group into categories: Assets, Liabilities, Equity, Revenue, COGS, Expenses
    • Mark which accounts are active vs. inactive
    • Note any accounts requiring special handling (tax, compliance)
  4. Validate the structure:

    • Ensure all transaction types have a home
    • Verify numbering is consistent and allows expansion
    • Check that the chart supports required financial reports
    • Confirm alignment with tax reporting categories
  5. Write the artifact to .metapowers/bookkeeping/$ARGUMENTS/chart-of-accounts.md with sections:

    • Business Context — type, size, and reporting needs
    • Account Listing — full chart with number, name, type, normal balance
    • Account Groups — summary of categories and their purpose
    • Usage Notes — guidance on when to use each account
    • Customization Log — what was changed from the template and why

Output

The chart of accounts written to .metapowers/bookkeeping/$ARGUMENTS/chart-of-accounts.md. Present a summary highlighting:

  • Total number of accounts by category
  • Key customizations for this business
  • Recommended accounts to add as the business grows

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 12d ago First seen · 53 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 03d2da4d15e7

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chart-of-accounts is a skill published in the GitHub repository bromso/metapowers (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 493 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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