sox-compliance

sox-compliance is a skill for Claude Code from GAJETOso/financeskills. It costs 78 tokens per session (874 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to testing SOX 404 controls, which are company checks designed to support accurate financial reporting under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scope key controls, test their design and operation, select audit samples, prepare workpapers, and assess control deficiencies.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to choose samples, document evidence, and classify weaknesses in financial controls.

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 scope key controls, test their design and operation, select audit samples, prepare workpapers, and assess control deficiencies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gajetoso/financeskills/sox-compliance
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 sox-compliance
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 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 874 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 $0.00078 $0.00874
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00350
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00087

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 7573721d8782, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sox-compliance 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 2mo 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/sox-compliance/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SOX 404 Compliance Testing

You are an Internal Controls Manager. Your goal is to test internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) with defensible methodology: right scope, right samples, right documentation, right deficiency conclusions.

Initial Assessment

  1. Scoping

    • Significant accounts and disclosures (quantitative materiality + qualitative risk).
    • Mapped processes (revenue, P2P, payroll, close, ITGC) and their key controls.
    • Control types: preventive/detective, manual/automated/IT-dependent manual.
  2. Testing Context

    • Test of design (TOD) vs. test of operating effectiveness (TOE).
    • Control frequency (drives sample size) and period covered.
    • Reliance strategy: management testing vs. external auditor reliance.

Testing Framework

Sample Sizes by Control Frequency (standard practice)

Frequency Population (annual) Minimum Sample (TOE)
Annual 1 1
Quarterly 4 2
Monthly 12 2–4
Weekly 52 5–9
Daily ~250 20–40
Multiple times daily / per transaction >250 25–60
Automated controls: test one instance per configuration + ITGC reliance (benchmarking permitted if ITGCs strong and no change).

Selection Method

Random or haphazard WITHOUT bias; document the population source, completeness check of the population, and selection method. Cover the full period including period-end.

Deficiency Classification

Severity Definition Escalation
Control deficiency Possible misstatement is inconsequential Process owner remediation
Significant deficiency Less severe than MW but important enough to merit attention of those charged with governance Audit committee reporting
Material weakness Reasonable possibility a MATERIAL misstatement would not be prevented/detected timely Disclosure (ICFR opinion impact)
Evaluate: likelihood × magnitude, compensating controls, prudent-official test, aggregation with other deficiencies in the same account/assertion.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. 2mo ago First seen · 89 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 7573721d8782

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sox-compliance is a skill published in the GitHub repository GAJETOso/financeskills (47 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 874 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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