capital-allocation SKILL.md skillA
capital-allocation 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/capital-allocation@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/capital-allocation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260916.0e7cd01, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 29, 2026
- Size
- 3,172 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
Evaluates where to spend limited capital — investment appraisal, hurdle rates, payback, and comparing proposals that are not alike. Use this to evaluate an investment or major purchase, compare competing funding requests, set a hurdle rate, decide between building and buying, or review whether past investments delivered what was claimed.
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
# Capital allocation Choosing among investments is choosing what not to do. This is the appraisal of individual proposals; which businesses and bets the company should be in belongs to `corporate-strategy:portfolio-strategy`. ## Appraise on incremental cash Only cash flows that change because of the decision belong in the analysis: - **Sunk costs are irrelevant.** Money already spent is not a reason to continue, though it is reliably presented as one. - **Allocated overhead is usually irrelevant.** If the cost occurs anyway, it does not belong in the incremental case. - **Opportunity cost is relevant**, including the capacity consumed that then cannot serve anything else. - **Working capital is a real outflow.** Growth that consumes cash is not free because it is growth. Discount for time and risk. A hurdle rate should reflect the risk of the specific proposal — applying one company-wide rate systematically overfunds risky projects and starves safe ones. ## Read payback for what it tells you Payback ignores everything after the threshold and so is a poor ranking tool. It is a good *liquidity …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/capital-allocation@sha256:552f5f9a1bce1239The 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 29, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 9 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260916.0e7cd01 latest | 2026-09-16 | 0e7cd01 | 3,172 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.2464776 | 2026-08-29 | 2464776 | 2,833 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.42b4a27 | 2026-08-29 | 42b4a27 | 2,833 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 (3172 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_hjrmudpysjtflydm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/capital-allocation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/552f5f9a1bce12398c99dc7ce8ea9f3673bb1d75ba7b395e364b8572eb880eb6
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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