# finance-expert

A skill for any task that touches an amount of money: balances, refunds, payouts, reconciliation, reporting. It carries a money model and double-entry rules.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 6400 installs · ★ 43
- Author: pcl-stdlib
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/personamanagmentlayer/pcl/tree/HEAD/stdlib/domains/finance-expert/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-12
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/finance-expert

## What it does

The skill kicks in whenever money shows up in a task: a balance, a charge, a refund, a payout, a transfer, an invoice, a fee, a tax, an FX conversion, an interest accrual, a journal entry, a trial balance, a chargeback, a P&L or a valuation model. It brings a normative money model — minor units, rounding and allocation policy, FX, ISO 4217 — and a double-entry ledger contract: chart of accounts, posting rules, immutability, corrections by reversal.

Four modes sit inside. DESIGN covers a new system, product or flow that holds or moves money, from the money model through posting rules and flow state machines to controls. REVIEW handles a PR touching amounts or an inherited system, ranking findings by monetary blast radius. OPERATE is reconciliation, period close, breaks and incidents on money. ANALYZE is FP&A, unit economics, a valuation or an investor number.

A regulatory map comes along: PCI DSS, PSD2/PSD3, SOX, IFRS 15/9, Basel, MiCA, DORA, AML/KYC, plus two executable audit harnesses. The skill declares dependencies on `fintech-expert`, `trading-expert`, `regtech-expert`, `security-expert`, `api-design-expert`, `banking-expert` and `accountant-expert` — worth checking before you install, because the review gets thinner without them. Its first rule is blunt: do not introduce a second authoritative record. If money is already booked somewhere, your system reconciles to it.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill finance-expert -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/finance-expert/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/finance-expert/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill finance-expert -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/finance-expert/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill finance-expert -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/finance-expert/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install personamanagmentlayer/pcl finance-expert
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/finance-expert/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill finance-expert -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/personamanagmentlayer/pcl --path stdlib/domains/finance-expert
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/finance-expert/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill finance-expert -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/personamanagmentlayer/pcl/tree/HEAD/stdlib/domains/finance-expert/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- design an append-only double-entry ledger with a chart of accounts
- stop a retried payment from charging twice
- reconcile breaks between a PSP, the bank and internal records
- close a period and post corrections by reversal
- build a unit-economics model with sourced assumptions

## Example prompts
- review this PR, it changes how refunds are calculated
- design a ledger for marketplace seller payouts
- our PSP totals and our database don't match, find the break

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: finance-expert
version: 3.0.0
description: >-
  Designs, reviews, operates and audits systems that hold, move, account for and report money —
  ledgers, payments, banking and open finance, reconciliation and close, risk, fraud, AML,
  markets and portfolio accounting, and corporate finance/FP&A. Brings a normative money model
  (minor units, rounding and allocation policy, FX, ISO 4217), a double-entry ledger contract
  (chart of accounts, posting rules, immutability, corrections by reversal), delivery semantics
  for money events (idempotency keys, at-least-once webhooks, holds and settlement finality),
  reconciliation and period close, controls (limits, separation of duties, approvals, audit
  trail), the regulatory map (PCI DSS, PSD2/PSD3, SOX, IFRS 15/9, Basel, MiCA, DORA, AML/KYC),
  and two executable audit harnesses. Use it whenever a task touches an amount of money — a
  balance, a charge, a refund, a payout, a transfer, an invoice, a fee, a tax, an FX conversion,
  an interest accrual, a journal entry, a trial balance, a settlement file, a chargeback, a P&L,
  an ARR or unit-economics number, a valuation model — and whenever someone says "just add an
  amount field", "just sum the transactions", or "the numbers don't match".
category: domains
tags:
  [
    finance,
    ledger,
    double-entry,
    accounting,
    payments,
    banking,
    open-banking,
    reconciliation,
    fx,
    risk,
    fraud,
    aml,
    kyc,
    compliance,
    fpa,
    valuation,
    trading,
  ]
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Write
  - Edit
  - Bash
  - Grep
  - Glob
  - WebSearch
dependencies:
  [
    fintech-expert,
    trading-expert,
    regtech-expert,
    security-expert,
    api-design-expert,
    banking-expert,
    accountant-expert,
  ]
author: pcl-stdlib
license: MIT
metadata:
  legacy-category: industry-specializations
---

# Finance Expert

Money is not a number. A number can be recomputed; money is a claim, recorded at a point in time,
owed by someone to someone, in a currency, under an accounting policy, subject to a regulator, and
irreversible once it moves. Almost every serious defect in a financial system comes from having
modelled the number and not the claim: a `float` column, a balance that is a mutable row, a retry
```
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