trial-balance

trial-balance is a skill for Claude Code from bromso/metapowers. It costs 12 tokens per session (367 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A report listing every account balance from the general ledger, split into debits and credits. The totals should match because double-entry accounting records each transaction on both sides.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing an unadjusted trial balance, checking that debits equal credits, investigating differences, and recording corrections.
Why use it?
It provides an early check for missing, duplicated, misplaced, or incorrectly entered ledger transactions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the accounting plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Preparing an unadjusted trial balance, checking that debits equal credits, investigating differences, and recording corrections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bromso/metapowers/trial-balance
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 trial-balance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bromso/metapowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install accounting, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 367 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 $0.00012 $0.00367
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00183
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00037

Measured 9d ago against content hash ced5f18aa6ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trial-balance 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.

plugins/accounting/skills/trial-balance/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Trial Balance

Prepare an unadjusted trial balance for "$ARGUMENTS". List all ledger account balances and verify that total debits equal total credits.

Prerequisites

Read .metapowers/accounting/$ARGUMENTS/03-ledger.md for the ledger account balances.

Process

  1. Extract account balances:

    • List every account from the general ledger with its closing balance
    • Place debit balances in the debit column and credit balances in the credit column
    • Order accounts by category: assets, liabilities, equity, revenue, expenses
  2. Calculate totals:

    • Sum all debit balances
    • Sum all credit balances
    • Compare totals — they must be equal
  3. Investigate discrepancies:

    • If totals do not match, check for:
      • Transposition errors (digits swapped)
      • Slide errors (decimal point shifted)
      • Omitted or double-posted entries
      • Entries posted to the wrong side
    • Document any corrections made
  4. Write the artifact to .metapowers/accounting/$ARGUMENTS/04-trial-balance.md with sections:

    • Unadjusted Trial Balance — all accounts with debit and credit columns
    • Balance Verification — total debits, total credits, and difference (should be zero)
    • Error Log — any discrepancies found and corrections applied

Output

The trial balance written to .metapowers/accounting/$ARGUMENTS/04-trial-balance.md. Present a summary highlighting:

  • Total debits and total credits
  • Whether the trial balance is in balance
  • Any errors detected and corrected
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 · 44 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A ced5f18aa6ab

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trial-balance is a skill published in the GitHub repository bromso/metapowers (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 367 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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