codexkit-finance-variance-story

codexkit-finance-variance-story is a skill for Codex from hoavdc/CodexKit. It costs 81 tokens per session (672 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A management explanation of why actual financial results differ from a budget or forecast. It connects changes in revenue, margin, costs, and cash to their underlying business drivers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing monthly business-review commentary, explaining budget or forecast variances, identifying effects such as price, volume, timing, or mix, and linking them to cash, margin, runway, owners, and future forecasts.
Why use it?
It replaces unexplained numbers with a concise account of what changed, whether the change is temporary, and what management should do next.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Preparing monthly business-review commentary, explaining budget or forecast variances, identifying effects such…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hoavdc/codexkit/codexkit-finance-variance-story
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 hoavdc/CodexKit --skill codexkit-finance-variance-story
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hoavdc/CodexKit

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 672 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 $0.00081 $0.00672
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00336
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00067

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1737ca528d0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codexkit-finance-variance-story 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/codexkit-finance-variance-story/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Finance Variance Story

Purpose

Convert raw financial movements into an explanation that managers can act on.

When to use

  • Actual results differ materially from budget or forecast.
  • A monthly business review needs finance commentary.
  • Leadership wants the story behind revenue, margin, cash, or cost movement.

When not to use

  • The request is for journal entries or bookkeeping.
  • Formal statutory accounting treatment is the main question.

Inputs

  • actuals, budget, forecast, or prior-period data
  • key business drivers and assumptions
  • notable one-offs, mix effects, or timing issues
  • audience: board, exec, functional leader, or finance team

Procedure

  1. Separate size, timing, volume, price, mix, and controllability effects where possible.
  2. Identify the 3-5 drivers that actually explain most of the movement.
  3. Connect the variance to cash, margin, runway, or operational implications.
  4. Distinguish structural change from one-off noise.
  5. Recommend actions, owners, and forecast implications.
  6. Flag missing data and confidence limits.

Output

  • executive summary of the variance story
  • driver table with impact and explanation
  • cash and margin implications
  • forward-looking actions and watchpoints
  • short management commentary in plain language

Definition of done

  • A non-finance leader can understand the business story.
  • The explanation distinguishes causes from symptoms.
  • Recommended actions follow from the analysis.

Examples

  • "Explain why gross margin missed plan this quarter and what actions we should take."
  • "Turn these budget versus actual numbers into management commentary for the board pack."

Quality Criteria

  • All claims reference specific frameworks, standards, or quantifiable data
  • Content matches the stated audience's expertise level
  • Recommendations are actionable — each includes a concrete next step
  • No unsupported assertions or generic filler language

Verification (4C)

Check Question
Correctness Do referenced frameworks and standards match their official definitions?
Completeness Are all key concepts covered without significant gaps for the stated audience?
Context-fit Would this be useful for someone new to this domain, or is it too advanced/too basic?
Consequence If a stakeholder acted on this immediately, what could they misinterpret?

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 85 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 1737ca528d0b

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codexkit-finance-variance-story is a skill published in the GitHub repository hoavdc/CodexKit (21 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 672 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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