financial-decisions

financial-decisions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from VladimirWrites/nestegg.money. It costs 47 tokens per session (816 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for using finance calculators to reason about choices such as mortgage payments, investing, job offers, retirement, and financial independence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to calculate loan costs, investment returns, taxes, retirement timelines, and comparisons between financial options.
Why use it?
It avoids mental arithmetic and makes the assumptions behind money calculations explicit, including inputs that may change over time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to calculate loan costs, investment returns, taxes, retirement timelines, and comparisons between financial options.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vladimirwrites/nestegg.money/financial-decisions
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 VladimirWrites/nestegg.money --skill financial-decisions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VladimirWrites/nestegg.money

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 816 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 $0.00047 $0.00816
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00408
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00082

Measured 11d ago against content hash b159173662a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

financial-decisions 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/financial-decisions/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Financial Decisions with nestegg Calculators

The nestegg MCP server (https://nestegg.money/mcp) provides deterministic finance calculators. Whenever a money question needs arithmetic — compounding, amortization, tax, returns — call a tool instead of computing in your head. Your reasoning stays yours; the numbers come from tools.

Ground rules

  1. Never estimate what a tool can compute. If a calculation spans more than one step or involves compounding, call the tool.
  2. Ask for missing load-bearing inputs instead of assuming them. A mortgage needs amount, rate, and term or payment. A German salary needs tax class and the Krankenkasse's actual Zusatzbeitrag (rates change yearly — the year-average default is only right for rough estimates). If the user doesn't know a value, say what you defaulted and why it matters.
  3. State assumptions with the answer. Every result includes the inputs it used; surface the ones the user didn't give explicitly (e.g. "assuming the 2026 average surcharge of 2.9%").
  4. Rates are inputs, not lookups. The tools fetch nothing live. The one exception: the de-* tools carry official German statutory data for recent tax years.
  5. Keep results compact. amortization returns per-year summaries by default; only request detail: "monthly" when the user asks for a schedule, and paginate with offset.

Workflows

Mortgage: overpay or invest?

  1. loan-payoff with the loan and the extra monthly amount → interest saved, months saved.
  2. contributions (or compound-interest) with the same monthly amount, the user's expected return, and the loan's remaining term → investment end value.
  3. Compare: investment gain vs interest saved, over the same horizon. Name the crossover return rate and the risk asymmetry (paying down debt is a guaranteed return at the loan rate).

German job offer / salary

  1. de-net-salary for each offer with year, gross, tax class, Bundesland, children, church tax, and the actual Zusatzbeitrag.
  2. Compare net monthly figures; note the marginal effects (a raise crossing a contribution ceiling changes less than expected).
  3. For capital income use de-abgeltungsteuer; for part-time bands de-midijob; for the state-pension effect of a salary de-rentenpunkte.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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 · 61 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A b159173662a4

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financial-decisions is a skill published in the GitHub repository VladimirWrites/nestegg.money (4 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 816 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 2026-08-31.

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