countbean-accounting

countbean-accounting is a skill for Claude Code from CPUtester5465/countbean-plugin. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,320 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bookkeeping guide for Countbean, which uses Beancount, a plain-text double-entry accounting system. It explains account categories, naming, balances, and safe data entry.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to categorise transactions, choose account names, write balanced postings, and safely add or correct financial data in a Countbean book.
Why use it?
It helps prevent invalid or unbalanced financial records when recording, importing, or correcting transactions.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the countbean plugin — 1 skill, 7 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to categorise transactions, choose account names, write balanced postings, and safely add or correct financial data in a Countbean book.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cputester5465/countbean-plugin/countbean-accounting
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 CPUtester5465/countbean-plugin --skill countbean-accounting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CPUtester5465/countbean-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install countbean, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 7 commands, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,320 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00054 $0.01320
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00660
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00132

Measured 9d ago against content hash b0b097967c1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

countbean-accounting 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.

plugin/skills/countbean-accounting/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing correct books in a Countbean book

A Countbean book is a Beancount ledger. Every write goes through the MCP server, which runs bean-check and only commits valid, balancing entries. Your job is to produce correct Beancount syntax so writes are accepted the first time.

The five account types

Every account starts with one of these roots. Sign convention matters:

Root Normal balance Goes up when…
Assets positive (debit) money comes in (cash, bank, receivables)
Liabilities negative (credit) you owe more (credit card, loans)
Equity negative (credit) opening balances, retained earnings
Income negative (credit) you earn (income is recorded as a negative number)
Expenses positive (debit) you spend

Accounts are Colon:Separated:Title-Case, each segment starting with a capital letter or digit, e.g. Assets:Checking, Expenses:Food:Groceries, Income:Consulting, Liabilities:Visa.

The one rule: postings must sum to zero

Each transaction has ≥2 postings that net to zero. You can leave one posting's amount blank and Beancount infers it.

2026-08-01 * "Blue Bottle" "Oat latte"
  Expenses:Coffee      6.50 USD
  Assets:Checking     -6.50 USD

Income example — note the negative on the Income leg:

2026-08-01 * "Stripe" "Invoice #204"
  Assets:Checking    1800.00 USD
  Income:Consulting              ; inferred as -1800.00 USD

Paying a credit card (transfer between two of your accounts, no income/expense):

2026-08-02 * "Payment — Visa"
  Liabilities:Visa     300.00 USD
  Assets:Checking     -300.00 USD

Flags

  • * = cleared/confirmed. Use for anything you're sure about.
  • ! = pending/needs review. Use when a category is a guess or a match is uncertain — this surfaces it in Fava and in reports instead of silently guessing wrong.

Opening accounts

Open an account before it's first used (the server routes open directives automatically):

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 9d ago First seen · 125 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A b0b097967c1a

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countbean-accounting is a skill published in the GitHub repository CPUtester5465/countbean-plugin (45 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,320 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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