payroll-processing

payroll-processing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gokulb20/crewm8-cfo-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,950 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A payroll workflow for calculating employee and contractor pay from gross earnings to take-home pay. It includes tax withholding, benefit deductions, contractor payments, and payroll filing preparation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to calculate net pay, process a pay period, apply tax and benefit deductions, prepare payroll records, and handle contractor payments.
Why use it?
It helps prevent incorrect payments, unexpected payroll costs, and missed tax or compliance steps.

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 Use it to calculate net pay, process a pay period, apply tax and benefit deductions, prepare payroll records, and handle contractor payments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gokulb20/crewm8-cfo-skills/payroll-processing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add gokulb20/crewm8-cfo-skills --skill payroll-processing
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 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,950 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 $0.00028 $0.01950
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00975
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00195

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1462e8299f9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

payroll-processing 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 10d 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/financial-operations/payroll-processing/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Payroll Processing

Purpose

Every employee and contractor must be paid correctly and on time, with all tax withholdings, benefits deductions, and compliance filings handled accurately. This skill calculates gross-to-net pay, applies federal/state/local tax tables, handles benefits deductions, and prepares the payroll register for review. Without it, payroll errors lead to compliance penalties, employee dissatisfaction, and cash flow surprises.

When to Use

  • "Run payroll for this period"
  • "Review payroll before processing"
  • "Calculate net pay for these employees"
  • "Process contractor payments"
  • "File payroll taxes"
  • "Update benefit deductions"

Inputs Required

  1. Employee roster — name, salary/hourly rate, pay frequency, tax withholding elections (W-4), benefit elections, state of employment.
  2. Pay period data — hours worked (hourly), PTO taken, commissions/bonuses earned, expense reimbursements.
  3. Prior payroll register — last period's numbers for sanity check.
  4. Tax rate tables — federal, state, local for each employee location.
  5. Benefits elections — health, dental, vision, 401(k) deferrals, HSA/FSA.

Quick Reference

Calculation Formula / Rule Why It Matters
Gross Pay (Salaried) Annual salary / Pay periods per year Base for all deductions
Gross Pay (Hourly) Hours worked × Rate (OT at 1.5× over 40 hrs) Accurate for variable-hour employees
Federal Income Tax Withholding IRS Pub 15-T tables based on W-4 and taxable wages Largest single withholding; errors trigger penalties
FICA (Social Security + Medicare) SS: 6.2% up to wage base / MC: 1.45% (0.9% additional over $200k) Mandatory employer + employee portions
Benefits Deductions Pre-tax: 401(k), medical, HSA / Post-tax: Roth 401(k), life insurance Correct treatment prevents tax filing errors
Net Pay Gross − Taxes − Deductions + Reimbursements What employees actually receive
Total Employer Cost Gross pay × 1.25–1.4× (incl. employer taxes, benefits, workers comp) True cost of headcount for planning

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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. 10d ago First seen · 151 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 1462e8299f9f

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payroll-processing is a skill published in the GitHub repository gokulb20/crewm8-cfo-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,950 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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