generate-workbook

generate-workbook is a skill for Claude Code from cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills. It costs 22 tokens per session (351 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An Excel workpapers pack is a structured workbook for reviewing accounting records and preparing client reports. It is generated with Python and can include ledgers, balances, financial statements and tax calculations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn classified transactions and year-end journal entries into an accounting workbook, check that balances agree, and optionally create a PDF report.
Why use it?
It creates a consistent review file without needing Microsoft Excel installed. It also keeps the source data in separate JSON workpapers so figures are not invented only in the spreadsheet.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 scripts/generate_workbook.py <input.json> <output.xlsx>.

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

Good fit Use it to turn classified transactions and year-end journal entries into an accounting workbook, check that balances agree, and optionally create a PDF report.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills/generate-workbook

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 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 351 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 $0.00022 $0.00351
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00176
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00035

Measured 12d ago against content hash 146ca1e3ab81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-workbook 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/generate-workbook/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

/generate-workbook

Purpose

Single-pass Excel working papers for human review and client packs.

Uses openpyxl (Python). Does not require Microsoft Excel to generate. Formulas are written as strings — values appear when the file is opened/recalculated.

See shared/excel_deliverables.md. Ledger SoR after finalisation: Beancount (export-beancount), not this xlsx.

Script

pip install openpyxl # or: pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 scripts/generate_workbook.py <input.json> <output.xlsx>

Expected sheets (minimum)

  1. Company Info
  2. Chart of Accounts
  3. Bank Transactions
  4. Payroll Summary
  5. Fixed Asset Register
  6. Journal Entries
  7. General Ledger
  8. Trial Balance
  9. Income Statement
  10. Balance Sheet
  11. Tax Computation
  12. Queries & Notes

Process

  1. Assemble classified data + ATB + YE JEs into the script’s input JSON format.
  2. Run the generator.
  3. Verify file opens; spot-check TB/BS.
  4. Machine truth remains in workpapers/*.json — do not invent numbers in Excel only.

PDF

Optional: scripts/generate_pdf_report.py (reads xlsx via openpyxl, needs reportlab).

Completion

Done when: workbook opens without corruption and key sheets tie to JSON workpapers/TB.

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 · 56 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 146ca1e3ab81

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generate-workbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 351 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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