payroll

payroll is a skill for Claude Code from bromso/metapowers. It costs 9 tokens per session (427 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A payroll process for tracking employee and contractor pay, deductions, taxes, employer contributions, and total employment cost.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather worker details, calculate regular pay, overtime and bonuses, account for leave and deductions, and determine employee and employer totals.
Why use it?
It organises the calculations needed to move from pay rates and hours or salaries to gross pay, deductions, and net pay.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the bookkeeping plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to gather worker details, calculate regular pay, overtime and bonuses, account for leave and deductions, and determine employee and employer totals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bromso/metapowers/payroll
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 payroll
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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README.md
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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 427 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 $0.00427
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00043

Measured 6d ago against content hash 514a6eca429a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

payroll 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 6d 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/payroll/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Payroll

Track employee wages, deductions, and payroll obligations for "$ARGUMENTS". Calculate gross and net pay, withholdings, and employer contributions.

Prerequisites

None — utility skill, run anytime.

Process

  1. Gather employee information:

    • List all employees and contractors
    • Record: name, role, pay type (salary, hourly), rate, pay frequency
    • Note tax filing status and allowances
    • Identify any special deductions (benefits, garnishments, retirement)
  2. Calculate gross pay:

    • Salaried employees: annual salary / pay periods
    • Hourly employees: hours worked x rate
    • Include overtime, bonuses, commissions as applicable
    • Track paid time off and sick leave balances
  3. Calculate deductions:

    • Employee withholdings: income tax, social security, medicare
    • Employee contributions: health insurance, retirement (401k/pension), union dues
    • Employer obligations: employer share of payroll taxes, insurance, workers' comp
    • Other: garnishments, loan repayments
  4. Determine net pay:

    • Gross pay minus all employee deductions
    • Verify against minimum wage requirements
    • Calculate employer total cost per employee
  5. Write the artifact to .metapowers/bookkeeping/$ARGUMENTS/payroll.md with sections:

    • Payroll Summary — table with gross, deductions, and net per employee
    • Withholdings Detail — breakdown of each deduction type
    • Employer Costs — taxes and contributions paid by employer
    • Totals — aggregate payroll cost for the period
    • Upcoming Obligations — tax deposits and filing deadlines

Output

The payroll report written to .metapowers/bookkeeping/$ARGUMENTS/payroll.md. Present a summary highlighting:

  • Total payroll cost (employee + employer)
  • Net pay distributed
  • Upcoming tax deposit deadlines
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. 6d ago First seen · 51 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 514a6eca429a

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payroll 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 427 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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