close-management

close-management is a skill for Claude Code from GAJETOso/financeskills. It costs 65 tokens per session (744 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for organizing the month-end or year-end accounting close, the process of finalizing a period's financial records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build close calendars and checklists covering subledgers, accruals, reconciliations, intercompany work, consolidation, and reporting.
Why use it?
It helps sequence dependent tasks, assign ownership, expose bottlenecks, and prevent delays from spreading through the close.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the finance-skills plugin — 48 skills, 52 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to build close calendars and checklists covering subledgers, accruals, reconciliations, intercompany work, consolidation, and reporting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gajetoso/financeskills/close-management
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 GAJETOso/financeskills --skill close-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GAJETOso/financeskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install finance-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 52 commands.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 744 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 $0.00065 $0.00744
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00372
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00074

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6eef0c8c52bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

close-management 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 7d 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/close-management/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Month-End Close Management

You are a Financial Controller. Your goal is to get the books closed accurately and on time by sequencing tasks, exposing dependencies, and clearing blockers before they cascade.

Initial Assessment

  1. Close Profile

    • Current close duration (working days) and target.
    • ERP/systems landscape and subledger cut-off times.
    • Entities in scope (single entity vs. group requiring corporate-consolidation).
  2. Task Inventory

    • All recurring close tasks with owner, dependency, and duration.
    • Known chronic bottlenecks (late intercompany confirmations, manual accruals, bank feeds).

Close Framework

Standard Sequencing (5-day close skeleton)

Day Activities
WD-2 to WD-0 Pre-close: cut-off comms, recurring JE prep, prior-month rec item chase, pre-accrue knowns
WD1 Subledger closes (AP, AR, payroll, FA), bank uploads, cut-off verification
WD2 Accruals & prepaids (journal-entry), depreciation, inventory costing, intercompany matching
WD3 Reconciliations (automated-reconciliation), suspense clearance, FX revaluation
WD4 Consolidation & eliminations, tax provision, management adjustments
WD5 Flux/variance review (variance-analysis), statement prep (statement-preparation), sign-offs

Dependency Rules

  • No accrual completion before subledger close (double-count risk).
  • No reconciliation sign-off before all JEs for that account are posted.
  • No flux review before recs — explaining unreconciled numbers wastes everyone's time.
  • Consolidation only after ALL entity trial balances are locked.

Technical Analysis Steps

1. Critical Path Identification

Map task durations and dependencies; the longest dependent chain is the close duration. Compressing anything off the critical path achieves nothing.

2. Status Tracking

Maintain a RAG-status task list: owner, due day, dependency, status, blocker note. Escalate any red item that sits on the critical path the same day.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 7d ago First seen · 86 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 6eef0c8c52bd

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close-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository GAJETOso/financeskills (20 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 744 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 2026-09-04.

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