Tools

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.

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.

Drafts offer letters from role, level, location and comp package, listing base salary, equity, signing bonus and first-year total, plus talking points for the hiring manager's negotiation. The template follows US company conventions; have legal review before sending. 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.

Compliance skill from Anthropic's official operations plugin: maps controls, owners and evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS, schedules audits, runs gap analyses, and outputs audit-readiness checklists and evidence collection plans. Have legal or compliance experts review.

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.

Month-end reconciliation for small businesses: matches QuickBooks or Xero line by line against PayPal, Stripe and Shopify payouts, flags likely duplicates and missing receipts, explains the P&L in plain terms and exports a close package (Excel and PDF). CSVs work too. Official from Anthropic.

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.

Everyday software engineering plugin: standup summaries, code review, structured debugging, architecture decision records, incident response and pre-deploy checks. Official from Anthropic, built mainly for Cowork but also usable in Claude Code.

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.

Processes large tool outputs in a sandbox and returns only the results to context; logs session events in SQLite with FTS5 so work continues after context compaction. Supports Claude Code, Codex and a dozen other clients. ELv2 licensed.

Vercel's official deployment skill: checks the git remote, project link and CLI login, then deploys a preview (default) or production via git push or vercel deploy. When login isn't possible in a sandbox, it can create a claimable preview link.

Vercel's official cost and performance skill: gathers production metrics, usage and project config, investigates only the routes and files the metrics point to, and returns ranked, doc-backed recommendations. Supports Next.js, SvelteKit and Nuxt; needs Vercel CLI v53+ logged in and linked.

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.

Daemonless, rootless container and pod manager with a Docker-compatible CLI for building, running and pushing OCI images. On macOS and Windows it runs inside a podman machine VM.

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.

Fast vulnerability scanner driven by YAML templates: uses a community template library to detect known vulnerabilities over HTTP, DNS, TCP, SSL and more, supports custom templates and plugs into CI/CD. Use only on targets you're authorized to test.

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.