home-office

home-office is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Receiptor-AI/bookkeeping-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (2,124 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for calculating the US home-office tax deduction for self-employed people. It covers the simplified method and the actual-expense method, including Form 8829, the IRS form used for certain home-business expenses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess home-office eligibility, compare deduction methods, and prepare information for Schedule C or Form 8829.
Why use it?
It helps separate qualifying business use from personal use and organizes the expenses and depreciation that may be relevant. It also explains the regular-use and exclusive-use tests.

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 assess home-office eligibility, compare deduction methods, and prepare information for Schedule C or Form 8829.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/receiptor-ai/bookkeeping-skills/home-office
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 Receiptor-AI/bookkeeping-skills --skill home-office
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Receiptor-AI/bookkeeping-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,124 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 $0.00080 $0.02124
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01062
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00425
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00212

Measured 12d ago against content hash 04ad40027a30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

home-office 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/home-office/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Home Office Deduction

Calculate the business use of home deduction for self-employed individuals who work from home. This flows to Schedule C Line 30 via Form 8829.

Do you qualify?

Two requirements must both be met:

Regular use — You use the space for business on a regular basis. Occasional or incidental use doesn't count. Working from home most days of the week qualifies. Working from home once a month does not.

Exclusive use — The space is used exclusively for business. This is the requirement most people fail. A spare bedroom used only as your office qualifies. A kitchen table where you also eat dinner does not. A room that doubles as a guest bedroom does not. A dedicated desk in the corner of a room can qualify if that area is used for nothing else — but the IRS interprets this strictly.

Exception to exclusive use: If you use part of your home to store inventory or product samples, and your home is the sole fixed location of your business, the exclusive use test doesn't apply to the storage area. Daycare facilities also have a partial exception.

Additional requirement for employees: If you're a W-2 employee working from home, the home office deduction is NOT available on your federal return since TCJA 2018 (some states still allow it). This deduction is only for self-employed individuals (Schedule C filers) and certain statutory employees.

Method 1: Simplified method

The easy option. No tracking of actual home expenses required.

Calculation: $5 × square footage of your dedicated home office space, up to 300 square feet maximum.

Maximum deduction: $5 × 300 = $1,500 per year.

Advantages: No need to calculate actual expenses, no depreciation (which means no depreciation recapture if you sell your home later), no Form 8829 required, easy to calculate.

Disadvantages: The $1,500 cap leaves money on the table for people with high mortgage/rent or large offices. You can't carry forward any unused portion. You can still deduct mortgage interest and property taxes on Schedule A (they're not "used up" by the simplified method).

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 12d ago First seen · 146 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 04ad40027a30

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home-office is a skill published in the GitHub repository Receiptor-AI/bookkeeping-skills (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 2,124 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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