Your Personal Finance Manager for Canadians — an AI financial planning partner that conducts thorough financial interviews, builds complete plans, generates interactive dashboards, and provides ongoing coaching. Use this skill whenever someone asks about budgeting, saving, investing, debt strategy, retirement…
Automates budget vs actual variance analysis in Excel with flagging, commentary, and executive summaries. Targets FP&A teams and financial reporting workflows. Use when asked to analyze budget variance, compare actual vs forecast, create a variance report, or explain budget differences. Trigger with "analyze budget…
Systematically test Monarch Money MCP tools in read-only mode (27 tools, 58 tests) or write-enabled mode (all 44 tools, 110 tests). Account-agnostic (discovers IDs at runtime) and self-cleaning (deletes everything it creates in write mode). Batches each phase into a subagent so large tool payloads stay out of the…
Quarterly financial health assessment. Use when the user asks for a full financial review, health check, "how am I doing", quarterly review, ratio check, financial assessment, or wants to know if they're on track. Also use when more than 30 days have passed since the last health check. Compares current state against…
Answer "what should I do with my next dollar?" Apply the financial order of operations to the user's ACTUAL situation. Use when someone asks what to do with money, how to allocate a paycheck, where to put savings, whether to pay debt or invest, what to do with a bonus/raise/windfall/tax refund, or any variant of "I…
Financial advisor intake — run when a user first sets up this project, says "onboard", "set up my profile", "get started", "intake", "configure my finances", or when CLAUDE.md has no Client Context section. Conducts a structured interview modeled on the CFP Board's 7-step process and writes personalized context to…
Helps plan and fund a large, specific, one-time savings goal with a dollar target and timeline — house down payment, car, wedding, sabbatical. Use when a user says "I'm saving for a house down payment", "how much do I need to save monthly for X", "help me set a savings target with a deadline", or "I want to buy a car…
Helps build a sustainable debt-payoff plan that fits inside a real budget instead of fighting it. Use when a user says "help me pay off my credit cards", "snowball or avalanche, which should I do", "how do I set up a debt goal", "I keep going into debt for emergencies while paying off debt", or "what order should I…
Guides building an emergency fund from zero, or strengthening a thin one, with staged achievable milestones. Use when a user says "I have no emergency fund", "how much should I have saved for emergencies", "help me build a safety net", "I keep raiding savings for car repairs", or "where do I start with an emergency…
Guided YNAB month-close session (Balance → Plan) over the MCP for YNAB tools — blocker-aware gaps, float attribution, donor-first coverage, balance-forward ledger. Use when the user wants to close out a month, do their monthly YNAB catch-up, check credit-card coverage, or asks for /month-close.