stp-automation

stp-automation is a skill for Claude Code from JoelLewis/finance_skills. It costs 118 tokens per session (5,845 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to straight-through processing, meaning a transaction completes from start to finish without human intervention. It explains how to measure that rate and replace review-everything workflows with checks focused on exceptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for measuring automated completion rates, analysing manual steps, and comparing robotic process automation, direct software connections, or a combination of both.
Why use it?
It helps operations teams identify where people still touch transactions and distinguish genuinely unattended processing from partial automation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the client-operations plugin — 8 skills shipped together

not rated 184repo +5 1mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 118 tokens original MIT

Good fit It is for measuring automated completion rates, analysing manual steps, and comparing robotic process automation, direct software connections, or a combination of both.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joellewis/finance_skills/stp-automation
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 JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill stp-automation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install client-operations, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,845 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 12 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00118 $0.05845
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.02923
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.01169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00585

Measured 12d ago against content hash 251610f223ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stp-automation 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 12d 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.

plugins/client-operations/skills/stp-automation/SKILL.md · 261 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

STP & Automation

Core Concepts

1. STP Fundamentals

Straight-through processing is the end-to-end automated completion of a business process without manual intervention: a transaction enters the system at one end and exits as a completed, booked, and confirmed event at the other with no human touching it along the way. True STP means zero manual intervention for the happy path; a process with a human review or approval at a midpoint is partially automated, not STP.

STP rate calculation. The fundamental metric is:

STP Rate = Automated Completions / Total Volume * 100

An "automated completion" is a transaction or workflow instance that passed through every step without manual intervention. If a trade requires a human to confirm a counterparty identifier before it can settle, that trade is not STP even though every other step was automated. The denominator is total volume, including both automated and exception items.

Industry benchmarks by process type. STP rates vary significantly by domain and firm maturity:

  • Equity trade processing (listed, domestic): 90-98% for mature firms
  • Fixed income trade processing: 70-85% (lower due to less standardized identifiers and settlement conventions)
  • Account opening (simple individual/joint accounts): 60-80%
  • Account opening (complex entity/trust accounts): 20-40%
  • Corporate actions (mandatory events): 80-90%
  • Corporate actions (voluntary events): 30-50%
  • Reconciliation (position and cash): 85-95% auto-match rates
  • Settlement instruction matching: 75-90%

These ranges reflect the spectrum from mid-tier broker-dealers to large custodian banks. A firm's position within the range depends on data quality, system integration maturity, and the complexity of its product mix.

The business case for STP compounds across four dimensions: cost reduction (per-transaction labor cost becomes fixed infrastructure cost), speed (seconds instead of queuing and handoff delays — directly reducing settlement risk), error reduction (consistent rules instead of re-keying and judgment variance), and scalability (volume spikes at quarter-end or corporate action clusters do not require proportional staffing).

Read the full file on GitHub · 261 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. 12d ago First seen · 261 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 251610f223ec

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stp-automation is a skill published in the GitHub repository JoelLewis/finance_skills (184 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 5,845 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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