crypto-tax-basics

crypto-tax-basics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nirholas/three.ws. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,373 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A practical guide to cryptocurrency taxes, covering taxable events, cost basis, DeFi activity, record keeping, and tax-loss harvesting. Cost basis is the amount used to calculate a gain or loss when an asset is sold.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps explain sales, swaps, staking, mining, airdrops, lending, borrowing, transfers, and methods for tracking gains and losses.
Why use it?
It helps users recognize transactions that may create tax obligations and organize the information needed for reporting.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nirholas/three.ws/crypto-tax-basics
Any agent
npx skills add nirholas/three.ws --skill crypto-tax-basics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nirholas/three.ws

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,373 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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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 $0.00051 $0.01373
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00687
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00137

Measured yesterday against content hash 4346d30d3aa0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crypto-tax-basics 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 yesterday.

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.

data/skills/portfolio/crypto-tax-basics/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Crypto Tax Basics Guide

A practical overview of cryptocurrency taxation for AI agents. Note: Tax laws vary by jurisdiction. Always recommend consulting a tax professional for specific advice.

Taxable Events in Crypto

Generally Taxable

Event Tax Type Notes
Selling crypto for fiat Capital gains Gain/loss = Sale price - Cost basis
Swapping token A for token B Capital gains Treated as sell A + buy B
Using crypto to buy goods/services Capital gains Treated as selling the crypto
Earning crypto (mining, staking rewards) Income Taxed as income at receipt
Receiving airdrop tokens Income Taxed at fair market value when received
DeFi interest/yield Income Taxed as income when received

Generally NOT Taxable

Event Notes
Buying crypto with fiat Not taxable until you sell
Transferring between your own wallets No gain/loss
Gifting (below thresholds) Gift tax may apply above limits
Holding No tax until you dispose

DeFi-Specific Tax Considerations

Lending & Borrowing

Action Tax Treatment
Supplying tokens to lending Generally not taxable (you retain ownership)
Receiving interest Income at receipt
Borrowing Not taxable (it's a loan)
Liquidation Capital gains event on collateral

Liquidity Provision

Action Tax Treatment
Adding liquidity May be taxable swap (depends on jurisdiction)
Receiving LP tokens Represents your pool share
Earning trading fees Income or capital gains (varies)
Removing liquidity May trigger capital gains
Impermanent loss Complex — may not be deductible until realized

Rebasing Tokens (USDs, stETH)

For auto-yield tokens like USDs by Sperax:

  • Each rebase that increases your balance is potentially taxable income
  • The new tokens have a cost basis equal to their value at receipt
  • When you eventually sell, capital gains are calculated from that basis

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 169 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 4346d30d3aa0

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crypto-tax-basics is a skill published in the GitHub repository nirholas/three.ws (110 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,373 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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