payroll-prep
Gets payroll ready to run without anyone getting shorted: pulls timesheets from Gusto, QuickBooks Payroll, or an uploaded spreadsheet, totals regular, overtime, and PTO hours by person, flags every anomaly it finds — missed punches, overtime spikes, rate changes, mid-period hires and terminations, hours off the schedule — and stages the run for the owner to approve line by line before a dollar moves. Anomalies are always raised, never quietly corrected. Once the owner runs it, the journal posts to the ledger or goes to the bookkeeper. Reach for this whenever payroll comes up at all — "run payroll," "payroll is due," "check the timecards," "did everyone clock out," "how many hours did the crew put in," "why is payroll so high this week," "I need to pay the guys Friday" — and use it after cash-flow-snapshot when the owner is worried about whether payroll clears.
Agent Skill from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
Copilot Studio
Passes documented load rulesNo documented load rule failed.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Preview, Frontier tenants only
Passes documented load rulesNo documented load rule failed.
An agent can have at most 8 skills. Custom skills aren't available in tenants that use Microsoft Purview Information Barriers.
- Warning: No experimental allowed-tools field (SPEC-ALLOWED-TOOLS)
uses allowed-tools
rule · Agent Skills specification
Standards signals
Meets the agentskills.io required fields.
| Frontmatter | Present and parsed Spec: frontmatter |
| name | Meets the spec (1-64 chars, a-z 0-9 hyphens) Spec: name |
| description | Present, 1-1,024 characters Spec: description |
| compatibility | Absent or under 500 characters Spec: compatibility |
| Name matches folder | Yes (payroll-prep)Spec: name |
| allowed-tools | Used Note: experimental in the spec; support varies by agent. Spec: allowed-tools |
Observed from the public SKILL.md at the commit above on 2026-10-23. Not a certification: AAIF and the Agent Skills project don't certify skills. Validate your own skill with skills-ref validate.
| Source repo | anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins |
| Path | small-business/skills/payroll-prep/SKILL.md |
| Commit checked | 33d3dea41a34 |
| Repo license | Apache-2.0 |
| Files | 6 |
| Scripts | None |
| Instructions | 15,245 characters |
| Deepest folder | 1 below the skill folder |
| Rules version | 2026-10-22 |
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