journal-entries

journal-entries is a skill for Claude Code from cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (522 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for turning classified financial activity into double-entry journal entries, where each transaction records equal debits and credits. It then produces a preliminary trial balance, a report that checks whether the accounting entries balance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to post bank inflows and outflows, include opening balances, create a journal file and roll the results into a trial balance.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive manual posting and catches entries that do not balance. This gives the ledger a structured basis for later financial reports.

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/post_journals.py \.

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

Good fit Use it to post bank inflows and outflows, include opening balances, create a journal file and roll the results into a trial balance.

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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/journal-entries

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 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 522 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 $0.00039 $0.00522
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00261
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00052

Measured 12d ago against content hash b1e3b9cd6d3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

journal-entries 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/journal-entries/SKILL.md · 71 lines

What it actually says

/journal-entries

Purpose

Convert classified activity into double-entry journals. Main job: post. Engine posts; agent judges openings/exceptions.

Load shared/kernel-contract.md and shared/guardrails.md.

Step 1 — Post (required)

python3 scripts/post_journals.py \
 --client-dir <client> \
 --bank-code 1000 \
 --opening-from-bank

# or with explicit openings pack
python3 scripts/post_journals.py \
 --transactions workpapers/transactions.json \
 --output workpapers/journals.json \
 --openings workpapers/journals_opening.json \
 --bank-code 1000

npx @cynco/accounting-skills post <client> --opening-from-bank
Input Rule
Classified transactions.json Every line has account_code (or fail)
Inflow DR bank · CR code
Outflow DR code · CR bank
Openings --openings file or --opening-from-bank (equity offset)

Prefer the script over line-by-line chat postings (scripts).

Done when: journals.json written and every JE balances (script exit 0).

Step 2 — Roll preliminary TB (required)

python3 scripts/roll_tb.py --client-dir <client> --preliminary
npx @cynco/accounting-skills tb <client> --preliminary

TB totals only via roll_tb — never typed by the agent.

Done when: tb_preliminary.json exists and difference == 0 (or must stop recorded).

Manual / non-bank journals

Client-supplied or payroll/sales books: append balancing JEs to journals.json (same schema), then re-run roll_tb. Each JE must balance or the roll fails.

Gates

  • Every JE: Σ DR = Σ CR
  • No blank accounts
  • Prelim TB difference = 0

Output

workpapers/journals.json + workpapers/tb_preliminary.json. Next: bank recon → YE → roll_tb --adjusted.

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 · 71 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A b1e3b9cd6d3b

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journal-entries is a skill published in the GitHub repository cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 522 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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