budgeting-and-forecasting SKILL.md skillA
budgeting-and-forecasting from cbrock84/headcount is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/budgeting-and-forecasting@git:20260916.0e7cd01Pins git:20260916.0e7cd01 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cbrock84/headcount
- Path
plugins/finance/skills/budgeting-and-forecasting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260916.0e7cd01, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 3,444 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
Runs the planning cycle — annual budget, rolling forecast, consolidation of business unit inputs, and the variance analysis that explains actuals against plan. Use this to build or challenge a budget, run a forecast cycle, consolidate departmental submissions, explain why results diverged from plan, or improve forecast accuracy.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Budgeting and forecasting ## The budget is a commitment, the forecast is a belief Keep them separate. A budget re-cut every month is not a commitment; a forecast held to the original budget is not a belief. Both failures make the numbers useless for different reasons. ## Running the cycle 1. **Set the frame first** — targets, headcount envelope, and the assumptions everyone builds on (pricing, attrition, timing). Distributed teams building on different assumptions produces a consolidation that cannot be reconciled. 2. **Collect in a fixed template.** Free-form submissions cost more to normalize than to build. 3. **Challenge the inputs**, specifically: what is the volume driver, what is this per unit, what happens if it comes in at half. Budget submissions are negotiating positions and should be treated as such without hostility. 4. **Consolidate and find the gap** between bottom-up and top-down. There always is one. Close it explicitly by cutting something named, not by proportional trimming — proportional cuts damage the highest-return line as much as the lowest. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/budgeting-and-forecasting@sha256:f54b38e0cb2943e9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.0e7cd01, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3q7riqwoktaluimt)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 9 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260916.0e7cd01 latest | 2026-09-16 | 0e7cd01 | 3,444 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.0757404 | 2026-09-01 | 0757404 | 3,105 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.f80dcb5 | 2026-08-28 | f80dcb5 | 2,693 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3444 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
cbrock84/headcount · 2,543 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3q7riqwoktaluimt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/budgeting-and-forecasting GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f54b38e0cb2943e9bd79e8a70a6674bcdd5af04c246e1435530513dba4a39e53
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.