Agent Skill
Payroll Operations skill
payroll-operationscbrock84/headcountplugins/people/skills/payroll-operations/SKILL.md
Runs the pay cycle so it is right, on time, and provable — the calendar and cutoffs, what feeds pay from the HRIS and time systems, gross-to-net and the deductions in it, multi-jurisdiction registration and tax filing, off-cycle payments and corrections, and the reconciliation to the general ledger. Use this to design or audit a payroll process, work out what happens when someone is paid wrong, or understand what changes when you hire in a new state or country.
always on
104 tokname + description
once used
810 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
12 KB
repo stars
2.1kGitHub
Install the Payroll Operations skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount --skill payroll-operations
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git /tmp/headcount mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/headcount/plugins/people/skills/payroll-operations ~/.claude/skills/payroll-operations
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 104 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 810 tok |
| Only if opened | 1 bundled files (2 KB) | varies |
Until it is used, payroll-operations costs about 13× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,363 tokens on every turn). Installing all 150 skills from cbrock84/headcount would load 11,321 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
What's inside
The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.
- Payroll operations
- The calendar is the control
- Know what feeds pay, and make the HRIS the source
- Gross to net, and what sits between
- Every new jurisdiction is a registration, not just a line item
- Corrections, off-cycles, and overpayments
- Reconcile every cycle, and reconcile the year
- Sources
- Never
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