generate-budget

generate-budget is a skill for Claude Code from KirKruglov/claude-project-manager. It costs 159 tokens per session (2,238 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A detailed project budget arranged by project phase and cost category, with a separate contingency reserve for unexpected costs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create project-budget.xlsx covering team, infrastructure, and go-to-market costs from preliminary-estimate.xlsx and resource-plan.md.
Why use it?
It turns a preliminary estimate and staffing plan into a more specific spending baseline. This makes planned costs easier to review and track.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the project-manager plugin — 21 skills, 8 commands, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to create project-budget.xlsx covering team, infrastructure, and go-to-market costs from preliminary-estimate.xlsx and resource-plan.md.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kirkruglov/claude-project-manager/generate-budget
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add KirKruglov/claude-project-manager --skill generate-budget
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KirKruglov/claude-project-manager

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install project-manager, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 8 commands, 3 MCP servers.

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Per session 159 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,238 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 $0.00159 $0.02238
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.01119
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00448
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00224

Measured 12d ago against content hash e0ba1aaaa157, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-budget 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.

skills/generate-budget/SKILL.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: generate-budget

Generates a detailed IT project budget during the planning phase (Phase 2). Reads the preliminary estimate (preliminary-estimate.xlsx) and resource plan (resource-plan.md), builds a line-item budget by phase and cost category. Output: project-budget.xlsx — one baseline scenario with a contingency reserve. Mode B: agent prepares draft, PM reviews.


Triggers

Russian: «сформируй бюджет проекта», «подготовь детальный бюджет», «сделай бюджет по фазам», «бюджет проекта», «детализируй бюджет» English: "generate project budget", "create budget", "project budget", "detailed budget", "budget by phase", "budget breakdown"


Language Detection

Determine the language of the user's request:

  • If the request is in Russian → use templates with the -ru suffix, respond in Russian
  • Otherwise → use templates with the -en suffix, respond in English

Input

Data Required Source
Preliminary estimate yes 01-initiation/preliminary-estimate.xlsx
Resource plan yes 02-planning/resource-plan.md
Project charter no 01-initiation/project-charter.md
Hard constraints no input/constraints.md
Risk register no 01-initiation/risk-register.md — for reserve calibration

Output

File Project path Format
project-budget.xlsx 02-planning/ .xlsx

File structure — 3 sheets (Summary, Budget Detail, Resource Detail) — defined in templates/project-budget-{lang}.md.


Instructions

Step 1 — Check Dependencies

Guard-rail — check request type. If the request contains: WBS, task decomposition, man-hours per task, work breakdown by assignee — respond: "generate-budget produces a line-item budget by phase and cost category, not a detailed WBS. For task decomposition use generate-project-plan — it builds a plan with tasks, timelines, and assignees. Once the plan is approved, generate-budget will calculate the financial side based on the resource plan." Do not start the workflow. Do not check for files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 246 lines · 159 tokens per session scan A e0ba1aaaa157

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generate-budget is a skill published in the GitHub repository KirKruglov/claude-project-manager (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 159 tokens to every session and 2,238 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.