Tools

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.

Reorder planning for small merchants: reads sales and stock from Shopify, Square, NetSuite or CSV, projects stockout dates from 7- and 28-day velocity, sizes reorders from 60-day usage plus lead time, drafts POs and supplier emails, and flags dead stock. Nothing is sent unapproved. By Anthropic.

Anthropic's official business operations plugin: vendor evaluations, process docs (flowcharts, RACI, SOPs), change requests, capacity planning, status reports and runbooks. Works without external tools and does more with ITSM and project management tools connected.

Writes stakeholder updates by audience and cadence: weekly or monthly reports, launch announcements or risk escalations, and can rewrite the same progress as an executive summary, an engineering deep dive or a customer-facing version. From Anthropic's official product-management 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.

Plans a sprint: estimates team capacity around time off and meetings, sets scope, goals and P0 versus stretch items, handles carryover from the last sprint, and outputs a sprint plan document. Works without any connected tools. From Anthropic's official product-management plugin.

Synthesizes user feedback from interview notes, surveys and support tickets into themes ranked by frequency and impact, and outputs structured insights and roadmap recommendations. Can pull data from knowledge bases or meeting transcripts. From Anthropic's official product-management plugin.

Account reconciliation following accounting methodology: GL to subledger, bank reconciliations and intercompany balances, with reconciling items categorized, aged and escalated. Part of Anthropic's official finance plugin; results need professional review.

Helps accountants prepare month-end journal entries: debit/credit treatment for accruals, prepaid amortization, depreciation, payroll and revenue recognition, plus required support and review checklists, following US GAAP. Not financial advice; review before posting. From Anthropic's finance plugin.

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.

Pulls verbatim customer quotes on a topic from call transcripts, meeting notes and emails, tagging each with speaker, account and date, and summarizes recurring themes into voice-of-customer findings for product and marketing. Connect Gong, email or drive, or upload transcripts. By Anthropic.

Runs compliance checks on planned features, marketing campaigns or business initiatives: identifies applicable regulations such as GDPR and CCPA, required approvals and risks, and concludes go, go with conditions, or needs further review. From Anthropic's legal plugin; not legal advice.

Official Slack (Salesforce) plugin in Anthropic's knowledge work marketplace: connects Slack's hosted MCP to search and send messages, read channels and threads, and manage canvases, with commands for channel digests, standup updates and announcements. Needs workspace admin approval.

Packages customer issues that need engineering, product or leadership into an escalation brief with scope, repro steps, business impact, asks and deadline, and decides who to escalate to. Support and CRM connectors add context automatically. Part of Anthropic's official customer-support plugin.

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.

Helps finance teams run month-end close: a close checklist sequenced from T+1 to T+5, task dependencies and critical path, a progress tracker and tips to shorten the close, useful for close calendars and status tracking. Needs professional review. Part of Anthropic's official finance plugin.

Anthropic's official knowledge work plugin: manages tasks in TASKS.md, remembers colleagues, projects and internal jargon with two-tier memory, and generates a local dashboard. Can sync to-dos with calendar, email and chat tools.

Produces monthly, quarterly or annual income statements with prior-period, year-over-year and budget comparisons, flagging material variances. Includes balance sheet and cash flow formats plus GAAP presentation and period-end adjustment references. From Anthropic's finance plugin; get it reviewed.

Creates, updates or reprioritizes a product roadmap: decides what moves when new work comes in, shifts timelines after dependency slips, or builds a Now/Next/Later view from scratch. Reads existing items from your project management tool when connected. From Anthropic's product-management plugin.