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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 rules

No documented load rule failed.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Preview, Frontier tenants only

Passes documented load rules

No 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.

Agent Skills spec notes
Compatible isn't the same as safe. These verdicts only say whether a skill's files follow Microsoft's documented load rules. The checker reads files and never runs them, and it doesn't review what a skill or its scripts actually do. Read a skill's instructions and scripts before you add it to an agent.

Standards signals

Meets the agentskills.io required fields.

FrontmatterPresent and parsed
Spec: frontmatter
nameMeets the spec (1-64 chars, a-z 0-9 hyphens)
Spec: name
descriptionPresent, 1-1,024 characters
Spec: description
compatibilityAbsent or under 500 characters
Spec: compatibility
Name matches folderYes (payroll-prep)
Spec: name
allowed-toolsUsed 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 repoanthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
Pathsmall-business/skills/payroll-prep/SKILL.md
Commit checked33d3dea41a34
Repo licenseApache-2.0
Files6
ScriptsNone
Instructions15,245 characters
Deepest folder1 below the skill folder
Rules version2026-10-22

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Is this wrong or out of date? Email us. Skills data built 2026-10-23; rules as of 2026-10-22.

Rule-based checks of public files against Microsoft's documented load rules, not tested in Copilot Studio or Microsoft 365 Copilot. Independent project, not affiliated with Microsoft.