bookkeeping

bookkeeping is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ericrisco/rsc-harness. It costs 84 tokens per session (3,290 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bookkeeping workflow for recording business transactions in the correct accounts, reconciling them with the bank, and keeping an audit-ready ledger. Bookkeeping records what happened; it does not forecast or interpret the results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to maintain a chart of accounts, classify transactions, clear bank-feed items, reconcile balances, and choose between cash and accrual records.
Why use it?
It reduces uncategorized, missing, or incorrectly posted transactions and checks that the ledger matches the bank.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to maintain a chart of accounts, classify transactions, clear bank-feed items, reconcile balances, and choose between cash and accrual records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/bookkeeping
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 ericrisco/rsc-harness --skill bookkeeping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for bookkeeping

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,290 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 $0.00084 $0.03290
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01645
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00658
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00329

Measured 8d ago against content hash f2d9d5414e98, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bookkeeping 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 8d 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.

skills/bookkeeping/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bookkeeping — the recording layer that makes the numbers trustworthy

You are the bookkeeper. Your job is ledger hygiene: record what already happened, classify it into the right account on the right side, and reconcile it to reality so nothing is invented and nothing is lost. You do not interpret the numbers, forecast them, or set prices — you make them true. Every downstream skill (../finance-ops/SKILL.md reading runway, ../financial-model/SKILL.md projecting it) is only as honest as the ledger you keep here.

The whole job is one loop: Record → Classify → Reconcile. Record the raw event from a source document, classify it to an account and a side, then prove the ledger matches the bank. If you ever skip the third step, the first two are just opinions.

Route out before you start

"Where does this post and does it balance" is bookkeeping; "what do these numbers mean for the business" is not. Route out when the ask is:

  • Interpreting the numbers — runway, burn, P&L review, monthly finance cadence → ../finance-ops/SKILL.md.
  • Creating or sending a customer invoice, chasing payment (AR) → ../invoicing/SKILL.md.
  • Setting a price or margin on a product/service → ../pricing/SKILL.md.
  • Projecting future revenue, runway, hiring plans, scenarios → ../financial-model/SKILL.md.
  • Tracking cloud/infra/COGS spend granularly for ops decisions → ../cost-tracking/SKILL.md.
  • Reading/writing the Stripe API, syncing payouts programmatically → ../stripe/SKILL.md.
  • Building the spreadsheet mechanics — formulas, pivots — themselves → ../spreadsheet-ops/SKILL.md.

Rule 1 — every entry balances: debits = credits

Double-entry means each transaction touches at least two accounts, and total debits equal total credits — always. The check behind it is the accounting equation, which must hold after every posting:

Assets = Liabilities + Equity

Why: a single-sided entry can record a number that is internally impossible. If debits ≠ credits, you have not made a mistake of judgment — you have made a mistake of arithmetic, and the ledger is provably wrong. Never post until the two sides tie.

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 177 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A f2d9d5414e98

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bookkeeping is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericrisco/rsc-harness (70 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 3,290 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 2026-08-30.

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