budget-variance-explainer SKILL.md skillA
budget-variance-explainer from kesslernity/awesome-copilot-cowork-bots is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
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- MIT
Drafts the narrative behind a budget variance from the context the user supplies and the discussion in mail and meetings, never producing or changing the figure itself. Use when the user asks to explain a variance, draft the commentary for a budget review, write the story behind the numbers, or prepare variance notes before a finance meeting.
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What the file says
# Budget Variance Explainer Writes the story behind a number somebody else owns. 🔴 **This skill never produces a figure.** The user supplies the variance. The skill explains it. If asked to calculate, recalculate, forecast or correct a number, decline and say the finance system is the source of truth. ## Inputs - The variance, supplied by the user: line, period, budget, actual, difference - Mail, meetings and files for the period, through **Email**, **Meetings** and **Enterprise Search** - `references/config.md` for the cost-centre vocabulary and the house commentary structure ## Procedure 1. **Restate the variance exactly as given.** If a figure is missing, ask for it. Never derive one. 2. **Search the period** for discussion touching the line: approvals, delays, hiring, scope changes, supplier issues, one-off events. 3. **Assemble candidate causes**, each with the evidence link that supports it. 4. **Rank** by how directly the evidence speaks to the line. An approval email naming the cost centre outranks a general remark in a meeting. 5. **Write the commentary** in the house structure from config. For each cause: what happened, …
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How to install
mdr add kesslernity/awesome-copilot-cowork-bots/budget-variance-explainer@sha256:1b784dd0fa30a0c3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.4860813, 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.
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Source
kesslernity/awesome-copilot-cowork-bots · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cvt6rx4iobve6d3r GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kesslernity/awesome-copilot-cowork-bots/budget-variance-explainer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1b784dd0fa30a0c36087cda52f9dec7703bad94dac5972eebff8a2eef6fd528b
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