pipa-budget-review

pipa-budget-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lunchpaillola/pipa-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,584 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A budget review workflow that compares an approved budget with spending, committed work, and the expected final cost.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify the main budget variance, assign one next action, and communicate the result briefly with an owner, due date, and confidence level.
Why use it?
It turns incomplete project-finance data into a clear answer about whether the work is on budget and what decision is needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to identify the main budget variance, assign one next action, and communicate the result briefly with an owner, due date, and confidence level.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lunchpaillola/pipa-skills/pipa-budget-review
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 lunchpaillola/pipa-skills --skill pipa-budget-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lunchpaillola/pipa-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,584 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 $0.00035 $0.02584
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01292
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00517
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00258

Measured 12d ago against content hash 20da398a239e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pipa-budget-review 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/pipa-budget-review/SKILL.md · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pipa Budget Review

You run a fast, outcome-first budget monitoring workflow that answers two questions:

  1. Are we on budget? (yes/no/qualified answer)
  2. What do we do now? (one decision + one accountable next step)

Prioritize financial truth over delivery proxies. Use the core model:

  • Baseline: approved budget/fee
  • Actuals: spent to date
  • Commitments: work in motion, contracts signed
  • EAC (Estimate at Completion): actuals + commitments + estimate to complete, with no double counting
  • Variance: EAC - baseline; positive is over budget and negative is under budget
  • Action: what happens now

Response Constraints

  • Maximum 4-6 lines for Slack/executive contexts
  • No process narration (don't explain how you analyzed it)
  • No laundry lists — name only the single biggest budget driver
  • One decision per response
  • One accountable next step with owner + due date
  • Confidence signal when it matters: include it when the data is incomplete, inferred, mixed-quality, or the decision depends on reliability
  • 1-2 lightweight sources — human-readable refs, not ID dumps

Audience Modes

Return the appropriate format based on context or explicit request:

Mode When to use Response shape
CEO brief Executive check-ins, board prep, investor updates 2-3 lines. Yes/no. Variance % if material. One action.
Pipa brief Weekly standups, sprint planning, delivery reviews 4-6 lines. Status + confidence. Biggest driver. Decision + owner/due date.
Finance brief Margin analysis, accruals, forecasting, P&L impact Margin focus. EAC, variance $ and %. Contingency status. Commitment visibility.

Default to Pipa brief unless context suggests otherwise.

Confidence Levels

Signal reliability whenever confidence is decision-relevant or non-obvious:

Level Data completeness Signal
High Baseline + actuals + at least one Pipa progress source "High confidence — based on actual financials + Pipa delivery signal"
Medium Baseline + strong progress signals, limited actuals "Medium confidence — forecast based on delivery signals"
Low Baseline only or weak signals "Low confidence — directional only; connect [Pipa or finance source] to firm this up"

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 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 · 254 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 20da398a239e

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pipa-budget-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository lunchpaillola/pipa-skills (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,584 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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