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What the real finance-coworker skill actually does

This page exists to keep this site's claims traceable to one source: the installed finance-coworker skill's own description field. Nothing on this site describes finance mechanics beyond what that skill states.

Verbatim description

Cost tracking + vendor spend coworker for the knowledge-engineering chassis. Owns finance.jsonl queue, cost approval gates, third-party spend tracking, and routes to 8 finance plugin skills (journal-entry, reconciliation, variance-analysis, financial-statements, sox-testing, audit-support, close-management, journal-entry-prep). Use this skill WHENEVER the operator says /finance-coworker, "track cost", "vendor spend", "budget gate", "cost entry", "approve spend", "finance queue", or when another coworker (pm-coworker, sales-coworker, operations-coworker) sends a mailbox message to finance-coworker. Also fire when a new third-party service is provisioned and needs a cost entry before spend is incurred.

How this differs from subagentroles.com's role_finance_coworker row

subagentroles.com's row answers the job-function/responsibility question: who does Finance report to (product-management orchestrator), who does it delegate to (nobody -- no finance-subagent exists), and where is that documented (apps/coworkers-desktop-buddy/COWORKERS-PLATFORM.md). This site answers a narrower, more mechanical question: what does the actual installed finance-coworker skill do when triggered -- what queue does it read/write, what phrases trigger it, and which 8 plugin skills does it hand work off to.

The 8 plugin skills it routes to

Named verbatim in the skill's own description, nothing added or reordered:

1. journal-entry
2. reconciliation
3. variance-analysis
4. financial-statements
5. sox-testing
6. audit-support
7. close-management
8. journal-entry-prep

See the live facts board for these as structured, queryable rows.