Tools

Data analysis plugin: writes queries in each SQL dialect, explores datasets, runs statistical tests, charts with Python and builds interactive HTML dashboards, then reviews methods and conclusions before sharing. Connects to Snowflake, BigQuery and other warehouses. Official from Anthropic.

Checks hours before payroll for US small businesses: totals regular time, overtime and PTO from Gusto, QuickBooks Payroll or timesheets, and flags missed punches, overtime anomalies, rate changes and mid-period hires or exits. Prepares only, never runs payroll. Official from Anthropic.

Methodology reference for US SOX 404 internal control audits: scoping significant accounts, sampling methods, workpaper and evidence standards, and classifying deficiencies, significant deficiencies and material weaknesses. Not audit or legal advice; needs professional review. By Anthropic.

Anthropic's official data skill that guides agents to write, translate and optimize SQL across Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, PostgreSQL and other warehouse dialects, including CTEs, window functions and analytical aggregations.

Finance and accounting plugin: prepares journal entries, reconciles accounts, generates income statements, runs variance analysis, manages month-end close and supports SOX audit testing. Can pull data from ERPs and data warehouses. Official from Anthropic.

Breaks budget-versus-actual, year-over-year and month-over-month variances into volume, price and mix drivers, filters by materiality thresholds, writes variance commentary and provides waterfall breakdowns for monthly business reviews. From Anthropic's official finance plugin.

Anthropic's official small-business skill for bills: reads vendor, amount and due date from email, PDFs or photos, dedupes, codes to accounts, matches POs and drafts a payment plan. Posting and paying each need approval; it never auto-pays. Works with QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite or file export.

Performance review season helper: generates self-review and manager review templates and calibration materials, summarizes rating distributions and promotion cases, and rewrites vague feedback into specific behavioral examples. Works in plain chat. Official from Anthropic.

Tracks the hiring funnel through sourcing, screening, interviews, debrief and offer, watching stage time and conversion, source effectiveness, offer acceptance and time to hire. With an ATS connected it pulls candidate data and updates status. A brief skill from Anthropic's human-resources plugin.

For internal auditors running SOX tests: lists key controls by area (revenue, procure-to-pay, payroll, close, ITGC) and period, sets sample sizes, samples from your population, and generates test workpaper templates and deficiency assessments. Needs professional review. Official from Anthropic.

Generates people analytics reports from employee data: headcount snapshots, voluntary and involuntary attrition, diversity metrics, spans of control and flight risk, with findings and recommendations for leadership. Needs an uploaded employee CSV or a connected HRIS. Official from Anthropic.

Answers employee policy questions in plain language, such as PTO, benefits, expenses, travel and remote work, with sources cited. Paste the handbook into the chat, or connect Notion, Confluence or another knowledge base to search automatically, cutting repeat HR questions. Official from Anthropic.

Tax prep for US small business owners: estimates quarterly taxes from QuickBooks, Xero or an uploaded P&L, and at year end lists contractors paid over $600 for 1099-NEC, flagging missing W-9s, for your accountant. US federal only; books must be closed. Not tax advice. From Anthropic.

Adds a searchable, copyable text layer to scanned PDFs, with automatic deskew, rotation and size optimization, outputting PDF/A by default. Built on Tesseract, supports 100+ languages and runs fully locally.

Runs the cognee memory engine as an MCP server whose remember, recall and forget tools write documents and conversations into a knowledge graph and vector store for cross-session retrieval. Start it with Docker or uv first; needs an LLM API key by default, or connect to Cognee Cloud.

Office command-line tool built for AI agents: a single binary that creates, reads and edits Word, Excel and PowerPoint files without Office installed, and renders them to HTML or PNG so agents can check the layout.

Writes conversations and business data into Graphiti's temporal knowledge graph so agents can retrieve long-term memory by entity, fact and time. Open source from Zep; start FalkorDB or Neo4j and the server with Docker first, and configure an LLM API key.

Built-in gws CLI skill: lets agents create Google Forms, add or edit questions in bulk, publish and read responses, handy for sign-ups, surveys and class feedback. Needs gws with a Google account authorized via your own Google Cloud project; not an officially supported Google product.

HR coordinator persona skill for the gws CLI: schedules onboarding sessions in Calendar, uploads onboarding docs to shared Drive, announces new hires in Chat, and turns email requests into tasks and bulk notices. Needs gws with OAuth via a Google Cloud project; not officially supported by Google.

Official CLI (actual) for the local-first budget app Actual Budget: query and edit accounts, transactions, categories, payees, rules and budgets on your sync server, with JSON output and CSV export for agent bookkeeping. Needs Node.js 22+ plus your server URL, password and budget Sync ID.

Helps finance teams with ratio analysis, DCF valuation, budget variance analysis and rolling forecasts, using bundled Python scripts so the numbers can be recomputed. Needs Python locally and financial data prepared as JSON; have a professional review the results.

Chief people officer perspective for HR and founders: hiring plans and headcount costs, salary bands and equity design, org structure, performance calibration and retention. Includes two local Python scripts; pay examples use USD and US city tiers. Have comp and equity plans reviewed.

Helps HR and hiring managers design structured interviews: plans rounds by role and level, builds question banks, competency matrices and scoring rubrics, and suggests ways to reduce interviewer bias and recalibrate. Examples focus on tech roles; optional local Python scripts.

A virtual executive team for founders: 33 skills act as CEO, CFO, CMO, CTO, legal and other advisors on strategy decisions, board materials, financial scenarios, M&A and org diagnostics, with Python analysis scripts. Persona subagents require the separate c-level-agents plugin.