categorize-transactions

categorize-transactions is a skill for Claude Code from norman-finance/norman-mcp-server. It costs 45 tokens per session (581 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bookkeeping workflow for reviewing uncategorized bank transactions, matching them with invoices, and checking accounting entries. It supports both freelancers and small companies using different category systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find uncategorized transactions, suggest categories from their details and past patterns, assign the right category, and reconcile the records.
Why use it?
It helps turn unorganized bank activity into categorized records and highlights entries that still need verification.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Part of the norman-finance plugin — 20 skills, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to find uncategorized transactions, suggest categories from their details and past patterns, assign the right category, and reconcile the records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/norman-finance/norman-mcp-server/categorize-transactions
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add norman-finance/norman-mcp-server --skill categorize-transactions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/norman-finance/norman-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install norman-finance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 581 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00045 $0.00581
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00291
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00058

Measured 11d ago against content hash e7a46eed3544, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

categorize-transactions 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 11d 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/categorize-transactions/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Help the user categorize and organize their bank transactions.

First: determine account type

Call get_company_details and check isSme:

  • Freelance (isSme: false): Use categorize_transaction — AI detects the freelance category automatically.
  • SME / GmbH / UG (isSme: true): Use list_company_categories to find DATEV categories by code. If the right category isn't provisioned, use search_skr_by_code or suggest_skr_category to search the full SKR catalog, then create_company_category to add it.

Workflow

  1. Fetch uncategorized transactions: Call search_transactions to find transactions that need attention. Look for unverified or uncategorized entries.

  2. Smart categorization: For each transaction, suggest a category based on:

    • The transaction description / reference text
    • The counterparty name
    • The amount and pattern (recurring = likely subscription)
    • Similar past transactions
  3. Assign the category:

    • Freelance: Use categorize_transaction with the transaction details — it returns the AI-suggested freelance category.
    • SME: Use update_transaction with company_category_id to assign a DATEV category. If the needed category isn't in list_company_categories, search the full SKR03/SKR04 catalog with search_skr_by_code (by number) or suggest_skr_category (by description, uses AI). Then create_company_category to add it.
  4. Invoice matching: When a transaction looks like an incoming payment:

    • Call list_invoices to find matching unpaid invoices (by amount or client)
    • Use link_transaction to connect the payment to the invoice
  5. Document attachment: Remind the user to attach receipts for expenses:

    • Use upload_bulk_attachments for multiple receipts
    • Use link_attachment_transaction to connect receipts to transactions
  6. Verification: After categorizing, use change_transaction_verification to mark transactions as verified.

Present transactions in batches of 10-15 for manageable review. Show: Date, Amount, Description, Suggested Category.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 11d ago First seen · 47 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A e7a46eed3544

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categorize-transactions is a skill published in the GitHub repository norman-finance/norman-mcp-server (54 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 581 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 2026-08-30.

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