variance-commentary

variance-commentary is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from leecyno1/boutique-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (350 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of variance-commentary, MIT.

A tool for writing explanations of significant changes in profit-and-loss and balance-sheet line items compared with an earlier period or the budget.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare management reporting and close-package commentary for revenue, costs, headcount, cash, and other flagged lines.
Why use it?
It helps month-end reporting explain the business activity behind a financial change instead of merely repeating the numbers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to prepare management reporting and close-package commentary for revenue, costs, headcount, cash, and other flagged lines.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leecyno1/boutique-skills/anthropic-fs-fund-admin-variance-commentary
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add leecyno1/boutique-skills --skill anthropic-fs-fund-admin-variance-commentary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/leecyno1/boutique-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 350 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00046 $0.00350
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00035

Measured 8d ago against content hash 11624574b72c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

variance-commentary 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to variance-commentary — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/default/anthropic-fs-fund-admin-variance-commentary/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Variance commentary

Given current-period actuals, prior-period actuals, and budget for the same scope, produce a commentary table.

Threshold

Flag a line for commentary if either is true:

  • Absolute variance ≥ the firm's materiality threshold (use the provided value; default 5% of the line or a fixed floor, whichever is greater)
  • The line is on the "always comment" list (revenue, headcount cost, cash)

For each flagged line

Column Content
Line Account or caption
Current / Prior / Budget The three values
Δ vs prior and Δ vs budget Amount and %
Driver One sentence explaining the movement from underlying activity — not a restatement of the number

A driver explains why, not what: "Cloud spend up $1.2M on incremental GPU reservations for the May launch" — not "Cloud spend increased $1.2M (18%)."

Sourcing the driver

Look at the activity behind the line (journal-source breakdown, vendor mix, headcount delta, volume × rate) via the internal-gl MCP. If the driver isn't clear from the data, write "driver unclear — flag for controller" rather than inventing one.

Output

The commentary table plus a short narrative (3–5 sentences) summarizing the period's biggest movers.

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. 8d ago First seen · 35 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 11624574b72c

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variance-commentary is a skill published in the GitHub repository leecyno1/boutique-skills (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 350 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to variance-commentary, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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