What is close-status-digest?

A status digest for a financial close, the process of finalizing an accounting period's numbers. It combines email and chat updates to show what is complete, in progress, blocked, or at risk, with owners and next steps.

Use it to report month-end, quarter-end, or year-end close status and identify work that may slip.

It avoids manually checking many conversations to determine whether the close is on track. It makes delays and ways to unblock them visible.

close-status-digest — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by microsoft

About the project

microsoft/cat-agent-skills is a static website that catalogs reusable instruction sets and related packages for AI agents. People use it to search, filter, rate, and download skills for Cowork, Copilot Studio, and Scout, along with Copilot plugins and Scout automations. The catalogue entries are the skills, instructions, plugins, and settings displayed by the site.

microsoft/cat-agent-skills · 101 stars · on GitHub

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 microsoft/cat-agent-skills --skill close-status-digest

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/cat-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,307 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00141	$0.01307
Opus 5.5	$0.00056	$0.00523
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00028	$0.00261
Haiku 4.5	$0.00014	$0.00131

Measured 2d ago against content hash c969e127413e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

close-status-digest 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 2d 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.

submissions/finance-for-cowork/skills/close-status-digest/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Close Status Digest

Answers "where are we on close?" in about thirty seconds — a health call first, then what landed, what's stuck, and what could slip in the next day or two.

When NOT to Use

Preparing journal entries, accruals, or reconciliations — that's the close work itself
Accounting policy or technical guidance → read the policy source directly
Ordinary non-close daily status → outside this skill's scope
Post-close variance narrative → use variance-commentary

Hand off rather than overlap:

Prep for a specific review meeting — use forecast-review-prep instead.
A slide prep pack for a review — use pptx instead.
Post-close variance narrative — use variance-commentary instead.
Recurring close calendar and deliverables email — use quarterly-workback instead.
Supplier or vendor risk and performance review — outside this skill's scope.

Workflow

1. Anchor the close period

Establish which close this is — a month-end, quarter-end, or year-end, and which period. Take it from the user's words if given; otherwise ask once with core-AskUserQuestion, offering the current and prior period as options. Do not proceed without a period anchor — an unanchored digest silently mixes cycles.

2. Identify who matters for this close

Resolve the people involved from the user's own recent activity rather than a fixed list: the frequent correspondents on close threads, the meeting organizers for close-related events, and anyone the user names. Use me_profile-SearchPeople to resolve names to addresses. Never assume a particular controller, accountant, or manager is involved.

3. Gather signal — run these in parallel

Default window is the last 48-72 hours.

m365_search-SearchM365 with sources=["email","teams"] on close vocabulary — close, cutoff, accrual, journal entry, reconciliation, lock, sign-off — plus the period name
outlook-ListMessages filtered to each close participant identified in step 2
outlook_calendar-ListCalendarView for close-related meetings today and tomorrow
m365_teams-ListChannelMessages for any channel the user has pointed at

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

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.

2d ago First seen · 124 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A c969e127413e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

close-status-digest is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/cat-agent-skills (101 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 1,307 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-11-06.

Finance and fintech Project management

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