WHAT THIS FILE IS
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owner-packet-builder.skill — Turns last year's actuals into pre-filled, ready-to-send
budget request packets for every department head.

A .skill file is Anthropic's packaging format for Claude Skills. It is a
standard ZIP archive, nothing more. If you are reading this in a text
editor, you are looking at the raw bytes of that archive — this build is
intentionally uncompressed so the contents stay human-readable.

LOOK INSIDE YOURSELF
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Rename the file from .skill to .zip and extract it, or run:  unzip owner-packet-builder.skill
Every file inside is plain-text markdown — the instructions Claude reads.
There is no executable code in this package.

WHAT'S INSIDE
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  SKILL.md
  references/classification-rubric.md
  references/packet-template.md
  references/message-templates.md
  README.txt (this file)

WHAT IT DOES
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Budget season goes wrong in the first week: finance emails a blank template to twenty
department heads who do this once a year and don't work in finance. Three weeks of
chasing follows.

This skill fixes the kickoff. It classifies every line in last year's actuals as
committed, discretionary, or one-time — then states the committed ones, excludes the
one-time ones, and asks about only the discretionary ones. Each owner gets their real
starting number and no more than three questions.

WHAT YOU GIVE IT
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  Required:     last twelve months of actuals by cost center (.xlsx, .csv, or pasted)
  Recommended:  your top-down guardrail per department
  Optional:     headcount roster, known contracts and renewal dates

WHAT YOU GET BACK
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  One pre-filled packet per department, with no more than three asks
  A send-ready Slack or email message per owner, with the deadline attached
  Every line tagged committed / discretionary / one-time, with the reason
  A master tracker: who was asked for what, and when it's due

HOW TO USE IT
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Upload this file as-is to Claude: Settings -> Skills -> Add.
Or add it in Claude Cowork or Claude Code.

From Aleph (getaleph.com), the FP&A platform.
The full guide: https://www.getaleph.com/claude-skills-library
Questions: marketing@getaleph.com
