payroll-advisor

payroll-advisor is a skill for Claude Code from VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic. It costs 32 tokens per session (5,210 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reference guide for payroll accounting and payroll-tax compliance across six jurisdictions. It covers wages, benefits, pensions, other employee obligations, and recognition of related expenses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when analyzing compensation expenses, accrued wages, bonuses, paid leave, employee benefits, pensions, post-retirement benefits, or payroll taxes.
Why use it?
It provides accounting rules and compliance guidance for recording employee costs and handling payroll obligations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the vanguard-frontier-agentic plugin — 193 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when analyzing compensation expenses, accrued wages, bonuses, paid leave, employee benefits, pensions, post-retirement benefits, or payroll taxes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/payroll-advisor
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 VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic --skill payroll-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vanguard-frontier-agentic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 193 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,210 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 $0.00032 $0.05210
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.02605
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00521

Measured 11d ago against content hash 30d9cb406824, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

payroll-advisor 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/accounting/payroll-advisor/SKILL.md · 315 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 315 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Payroll Advisor — Reference Skill

Purpose

Provide the complete multi-jurisdiction framework for payroll accounting advisory — from compensation expense recognition through pension obligations, OPEB, and payroll tax compliance across six major jurisdictions.


Part 1: Compensation Expense Recognition

Short-Term Employee Benefits (ASC 710 / IAS 19.9–21)

Short-term employee benefits are benefits expected to be settled wholly within twelve months after the end of the annual reporting period in which the employees render the related service. They include:

  • Wages and salaries
  • Social security contributions
  • Paid annual leave and paid sick leave
  • Profit-sharing and bonuses (if payable within twelve months)
  • Non-monetary benefits (medical care, housing, cars)

Recognition principle: Recognize the undiscounted amount of short-term employee benefits expected to be paid in exchange for service rendered during the period as an expense (unless capitalizable under another standard) and as a liability after deducting amounts already paid.

Source: IAS 19.11 / ASC 710-10-25-1

Accrued Compensation at Period End

At each balance sheet date, accrue:

Item Accrual Basis Standard
Unpaid wages (wages earned but not yet paid) Days elapsed since last payroll / number of days in pay period × total payroll ASC 710-10-25; IAS 19.11
Vacation / PTO — accumulating vesting Full balance of accrued days × pay rate (including payroll tax burden on employer) ASC 710-10-25-1; IAS 19.13
Vacation / PTO — accumulating non-vesting Accrue only if probable of being used before expiry IAS 19.16
Non-accumulating absences (sick leave — non-vesting) No accrual required; expense when taken IAS 19.15
Profit-sharing / bonus Constructive obligation test: see below IAS 19.19; ASC 710-10-25-9

Constructive obligation test for bonuses (IAS 19.19): An entity has a constructive obligation only if it has no realistic alternative but to make the payment. Factors: established pattern of past practice, published policy, or specific current-period commitment creating a valid expectation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 315 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 315 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 30d9cb406824

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payroll-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic (22 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 5,210 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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