# workflow-automation

A skill for designing human-in-the-loop processes: task routing, approval chains, maker-checker controls and SLA monitoring.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 646 installs · ★ 218
- Author: JoelLewis
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/client-operations/skills/workflow-automation/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-07-18
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/joellewis-workflow-automation

## What it does

The skill walks through modelling an operations process as a formal structure: steps, decision points, roles and data flows. It covers BPM fundamentals for financial operations, BPMN 2.0 notation, decomposition into sub-processes, and state machines. That last part fits items with a fixed set of states where a transition only fires when a guard condition passes.

Routing gets its own section. Role-based and skill-based assignment, round-robin, workload-based distribution, queue priority and capacity planning from historical volumes. Then approval chains: a delegation of authority matrix keyed to dollar thresholds and risk level, plus the four-eyes maker-checker pattern. If a large transfer in your setup can be initiated and approved by one person, that is worth a look.

Use it when picking a workflow engine or BPM platform (Camunda, Pega, ServiceNow), when adding audit trails for SEC Rule 17a-3/17a-4 or FINRA supervisory obligations, or when moving off email-and-spreadsheet tracking. Zero-touch automation rates and STP measurement live in the separate `stp-automation` skill.

## Requirements
- Works with: ServiceNow

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill workflow-automation -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill workflow-automation -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill workflow-automation -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install JoelLewis/finance_skills workflow-automation
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill workflow-automation -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills --path plugins/client-operations/skills/workflow-automation
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill workflow-automation -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/JoelLewis/finance_skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/client-operations/skills/workflow-automation/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- model an approval process as a state machine with valid transitions
- build a delegation of authority matrix by dollar threshold and risk
- route tasks by skill profile and current workload
- define escalation rules for items nearing an SLA breach
- add an audit trail for SEC and FINRA supervisory requirements

## Example prompts
- model the account opening process in BPMN 2.0 with swim lanes per role
- draft an approval matrix for cash disbursements by amount threshold
- what states and guard conditions should a transfer request have before ACATS submission

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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description: "Design human-in-the-loop workflow orchestration for securities operations: task routing, approval chains, and SLA monitoring. Use when building multi-level approval chains with dollar thresholds and delegation of authority, enforcing four-eyes (maker-checker) controls, defining escalation rules for aging work items approaching SLA breach, designing human-in-the-loop gates, selecting a workflow engine or BPM platform (Camunda, Pega, ServiceNow), modeling a process as a state machine, adding audit trails for SEC Rule 17a-3/17a-4 or FINRA supervisory obligations, or migrating from email-and-spreadsheet tracking. For zero-touch automation rates and STP measurement, see stp-automation."
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# Workflow Automation

## Core Concepts

### 1. BPM Fundamentals for Financial Operations

Business process management (BPM) is the discipline of modeling, executing, monitoring, and improving operational processes. In securities operations, BPM applies to every repeatable process that involves multiple steps, multiple participants, or decision points: account opening, account maintenance requests, transfer processing, corporate action elections, reconciliation break resolution, and billing exception handling.

**Process modeling.** A workflow begins as a process model — a formal representation of the steps, decision points, roles, and data flows in an operational process. The model serves three purposes: (1) it documents how the process works for training, audit, and examination purposes, (2) it provides the blueprint for automation, and (3) it establishes the baseline for measurement and improvement.

**Process modeling notation.** BPMN 2.0 is the industry standard for process modeling; model operational processes with tasks, decision gateways, start/intermediate/end events, and swim lanes per responsible role so that handoffs between operations, compliance, and external systems are explicit and visible.

**Process decomposition.** Complex operations workflows are decomposed into sub-processes. An account opening workflow decomposes into: data collection, KYC verification, document review, custodian submission, confirmation processing, and account activation. Each sub-process can be modeled, automated, and measured independently while the parent process orchestrates the sequence.
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