"algo-risk-altman-z"

"algo-risk-altman-z" is a skill for Claude Code from charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,644 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of algo-risk-altman-z, MIT.

A financial calculation that estimates a company’s risk of bankruptcy from five financial ratios. The original version was designed for publicly traded manufacturing companies, with variants for other company types.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to screen companies for financial distress, support quick credit checks, and monitor companies held in an investment portfolio.
Why use it?
It provides a quick screening signal from financial statements, but using the wrong version for a private, service, or financial company can mislead you.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to screen companies for financial distress, support quick credit checks, and monitor companies held in an investment portfolio.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill/algo-risk-altman-z
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill --skill algo-risk-altman-z
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,644 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00072 $0.01644
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00822
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00329
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00164

Measured 12d ago against content hash e817db130df3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

"algo-risk-altman-z" 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/altman_z.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

This is a copy

88% identical to algo-risk-altman-z — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/algo-risk-altman-z/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Altman Z-Score

Overview

Altman Z-Score is a linear discriminant model predicting bankruptcy probability from five financial ratios. Z = 1.2X₁ + 1.4X₂ + 3.3X₃ + 0.6X₄ + 1.0X₅. Zones: Z > 2.99 (safe), 1.81-2.99 (grey), Z < 1.81 (distress). Originally for public manufacturing firms; variants exist for private and non-manufacturing.

When to Use

Trigger conditions:

  • Screening companies for bankruptcy risk
  • Quick credit assessment using publicly available financials
  • Monitoring portfolio companies for financial distress signals

When NOT to use:

  • For financial institutions (banks, insurers) — different capital structures
  • When detailed credit scoring is needed (use logistic regression credit models)

Algorithm

IRON LAW: Z-Score Was Calibrated for PUBLIC MANUFACTURING Firms
Applying the original formula to private firms, service companies, or
emerging markets WITHOUT using the appropriate variant produces
misleading results. Use Z'-Score for private firms, Z''-Score for
non-manufacturing and emerging markets.

Phase 1: Input Validation

Extract from financial statements: working capital, retained earnings, EBIT, market cap (or book equity for private), total assets, total liabilities, sales. Gate: All five inputs available, from same reporting period.

Phase 1.5: Variant Selection (MANDATORY)

Before touching any formula, pick the right variant — this is the single most common mistake when applying Altman Z.

Firm description Variant Script flag
Public manufacturing firm Original Z --variant original
Private manufacturing firm (no market cap) Z' --variant private
Non-manufacturing — SaaS, services, retail, tech, finance-light Z'' --variant non_manufacturing
Emerging-market firm of any kind Z'' --variant non_manufacturing

If the user description contains any of these tags: "SaaS", "cloud", "software", "services", "retail", "e-commerce", "platform", "tech", "emerging market", "BRICS", "non-manufacturing" → use Z''. Do not default to the original Z just because that's the "classic" formula.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 120 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A e817db130df3

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"algo-risk-altman-z" is a skill published in the GitHub repository charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill (25 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,644 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to algo-risk-altman-z, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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