accounting-inbox

accounting-inbox is a skill for Claude Code from coltonbearden/carrel. It costs 86 tokens per session (994 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repeatable procedure for turning invoices, receipts, statements, and billing emails into a searchable accounting archive. It extracts fields, links shared references, names and files documents, and supports later searches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read documents, connect related files by invoice or payment numbers, organise them by date or financial period, and search the resulting archive.
Why use it?
It gives a consistent process for dealing with a disordered accounting inbox instead of handling each document manually. Dry-run steps and confidence levels help review changes before they are applied.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the carrel-finance plugin — 1 skill, 2 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to read documents, connect related files by invoice or payment numbers, organise them by date or financial period, and search the resulting archive.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/coltonbearden/carrel/accounting-inbox
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add coltonbearden/carrel --skill accounting-inbox
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coltonbearden/carrel

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install carrel-finance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 994 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 $0.00086 $0.00994
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00497
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00099

Measured today against content hash d32b207bd4c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

accounting-inbox 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 today.

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/carrel-finance/skills/accounting-inbox/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The accounting inbox with carrel

Five commands do the whole job: fields reads a document, refs links documents that share a number, rename names them, intake files them, and meta/search/tag answer questions afterwards. Everything is dry-run first; run carrel doctor once to see what your environment can read.

1. Read one document before trusting the batch

carrel --json fields invoice.pdf              # vendor, invoice_no, po, date, due, subtotal, tax, total, currency, iban
carrel --json fields receipts/ --profile receipt --date-order dmy --ocr

Each field carries a confidence: high (it followed its label — Total Due, Invoice Date), medium (a heuristic: the largest amount, the first date, Net 30 → due date, the first name-like line as vendor), low (a fallback: the file's mtime or name). Fix a wrong one with --set vendor="Acme Corp" for that run. Only high/medium/user values are ever written to the desk.

carrel --json refs ~/accounting --link        # values that appear in more than one file
carrel --root ~/accounting refs ~/accounting --tag
carrel --root ~/accounting tag find ref:invoice:inv-2026-0042

Kinds: label-driven invoice, po, order, check, account, tracking, ticket, plus check-digit-verified iban, routing, ein, vat, isbn, gtin, doi, ups, usps. A value with a check digit only appears when the digit verifies, so a nine-digit number is a routing number only when it really is one. Add a house format with --pattern acme='ACME-(?P<v1>\d+)'.

3. Name and file

carrel rename ~/inbox/*.pdf --template '{date}_{vendor}_{ref}{ext}'          # dry-run
carrel intake ~/inbox --to ~/accounting                                       # dry-run: the whole pipeline
carrel intake ~/inbox --to ~/accounting --apply --by period --fiscal-start 7  # FY2027/Q1/...

intake per file: fields → refs → name → move into YYYY/MM (or FY<year>/Q<n>) → index → save fields → tag. Scans are OCRed into a searchable copy and the original is kept under _originals/. Nothing is overwritten; nothing is deleted. --watch --stable 5 keeps filing what arrives, waiting for slow scanners to finish writing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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. today First seen · 57 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A d32b207bd4c6

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accounting-inbox is a skill published in the GitHub repository coltonbearden/carrel (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 994 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-11.

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