internal-controls-design

internal-controls-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gokulb20/crewm8-cfo-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (3,048 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for preventing fraud and mistakes inside a startup through defined responsibilities, approvals, records, and monitoring.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps design approval rules, separate responsibilities where practical, document financial processes, maintain audit trails, review controls, and assess preparation for SOX requirements, which are formal internal-control rules for public companies.
Why use it?
It addresses the risk that a small team may give too much control to one person or lack evidence of how financial work was done.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: positional $N argument; built for openclaw.

Good fit It helps design approval rules, separate responsibilities where practical, document financial processes, maintain audit trails, review controls, and assess preparation for SOX requirements, which are formal internal-control rules for public companies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gokulb20/crewm8-cfo-skills/internal-controls-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add gokulb20/crewm8-cfo-skills --skill internal-controls-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gokulb20/crewm8-cfo-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,048 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 $0.00036 $0.03048
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01524
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00610
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00305

Measured 11d ago against content hash 51ad25946b77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

internal-controls-design 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 11d 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/reporting-compliance/internal-controls-design/SKILL.md · 258 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 258 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Internal Controls Design

Design, document, and maintain a startup-appropriate internal control environment. Implement segregation of duties, approval matrices, process documentation, audit trails, and monitoring. Goal: the right controls at the right time — enough to prevent fraud and errors without slowing the business down.

Purpose

Startups face a control paradox: at 10 people, you can't segregate duties because there aren't enough people — but at 10 people, a single fraud or error can destroy the company. This skill solves that problem by providing a stage-appropriate control framework. Instead of copying SOX requirements designed for billion-dollar companies, it gives startups the controls they actually need: cash protection first, then approval matrices, then process documentation, evolving as the company grows from seed to series B and beyond.

When to Use

  • "Design our internal controls"
  • "Who should approve what?"
  • "Do we have segregation of duties?"
  • "Document this financial process"
  • "Control environment review"
  • "Are we SOX-ready?" (if preparing for IPO)

Inputs Required

  • Current control environment assessment
  • Organizational chart with roles and responsibilities
  • Access list for all financial systems (accounting, banking, payroll)
  • Current approval processes and thresholds
  • Existing process documentation (if any)
  • Prior audit findings or control gaps (if applicable)

Quick Reference

Stage Control Level Focus Area
Pre-seed / Seed (< 15 people) Minimal viable Fraud prevention, cash controls, CEO reviews all payments > $500
Series A (15-50 people) Lightweight Approval matrix, basic segregation, documented processes
Series B (50-150 people) Structured Full segregation, audit trails, quarterly testing
Pre-IPO / Series C+ (150+ people) SOX-lite / SOX-ready Fully documented, tested, attested
Control Area Highest Risk Bare Minimum
Cash Fraud (#1 startup risk) Separate initiator, approver, reconciler
AP Duplicate payments, fictitious vendors Approval matrix, W-9 for new vendors
Payroll Ghost employees, wrong amounts CEO review of payroll register
Access Unauthorized transactions 2FA on all financial systems, termination checklist

Read the full file on GitHub · 258 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 258 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 51ad25946b77

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internal-controls-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository gokulb20/crewm8-cfo-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 3,048 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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