capitalise-or-expense

capitalise-or-expense is a skill for Claude Code from cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (322 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An analysis for deciding whether a significant payment should be recorded as an asset or as an immediate expense. An asset is recorded for future use, while an expense reduces current-period profit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review material outflows, assign account codes, record the decision and any questions, and identify fixed-asset or depreciation information needed when a cost is capitalised.
Why use it?
It prevents equipment, repairs, software, and renovations from being classified inconsistently or without documenting the judgment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the accounting-engagement plugin — 45 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review material outflows, assign account codes, record the decision and any questions, and identify fixed-asset or depreciation information needed when a cost is capitalised.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills/capitalise-or-expense
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 cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills --skill capitalise-or-expense
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install accounting-engagement, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 322 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 $0.00040 $0.00322
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00161
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00032

Measured 12d ago against content hash f891b4199632, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

capitalise-or-expense 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.

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.

accounting-engagement/skills/capitalise-or-expense/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

/capitalise-or-expense

Purpose

Thin alias into classify — capital vs expense theme only.
Doctrine: shared/classify-substance.md.
Output: workpapers/analysis/capital_vs_expense.md (+ PPE notes if capitalised).

Steps

  1. Ensure workpapers/transactions.json exists (run extract if not).
  2. Set classify_depth = standards_aware for this theme.
  3. Load references/jurisdictions/malaysia/standards/capital_vs_expense.md.
  4. Follow classify-transactions steps 1–3 focused on material one-off / asset-like outflows.
  5. Write workpapers/analysis/capital_vs_expense.md from the analysis pack example.
  6. If capitalise: note FAR / depreciation policy needs (ask — do not invent rates).
  7. Apply COA codes; update payee_map; re-run classify for affected lines.

Done when: pack on disk with capitalise/expense/query per material outflow; codes applied or queried.

Do not

  • Invent useful lives or residual values
  • Capitalise owner personal spend
  • Expense all equipment into misc to avoid FAR without documenting the choice
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 · 31 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A f891b4199632

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capitalise-or-expense is a skill published in the GitHub repository cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 322 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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