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Payroll Prep

Category: General  ·  Sub-category: business-ops  ·  Last updated:
Gets payroll ready to run without anyone getting shorted: pulls timesheets from Gusto, QuickBooks Payroll, or an uploaded spreadsheet, totals regular, overtime, and PTO hours by person, flags every anomaly it finds — missed punches, overtime spikes, rate changes, mid-period hires and terminations, hours off the schedule — and stages the run for the owner to approve line by line before a dollar moves. Anomalies are always raised, never quietly corrected. Once the owner runs it, the journal posts to the ledger or goes to the bookkeeper. Reach for this whenever payroll comes up at all — "run payroll," "payroll is due," "check the timecards," "did everyone clock out," "how many hours did the crew put in," "why is payroll so high this week," "I need to pay the guys Friday" — and use it after cash-flow-snapshot when the owner is worried about whether payroll clears.
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Get the hours right before anyone gets paid.

What this skill does

Payroll Prep is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the business-ops sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/payroll-prep/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Payroll Prep Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 211,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/payroll-prep
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/payroll-prep/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/payroll-prep/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/payroll-prep/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/payroll-prep/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\payroll-prep\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Payroll Prep Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/payroll-prep/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Payroll Prep skill do?
Gets payroll ready to run without anyone getting shorted: pulls timesheets from Gusto, QuickBooks Payroll, or an uploaded spreadsheet, totals regular, overtime, and PTO hours by person, flags every anomaly it finds — missed punches, overtime spikes, rate changes, mid-period hires and terminations, hours off the schedule — and stages the run for the owner to approve line by line before a dollar moves. Anomalies are always raised, never quietly corrected. Once the owner runs it, the journal posts to the ledger or goes to the bookkeeper. Reach for this whenever payroll comes up at all — "run payroll," "payroll is due," "check the timecards," "did everyone clock out," "how many hours did the crew put in," "why is payroll so high this week," "I need to pay the guys Friday" — and use it after cash-flow-snapshot when the owner is worried about whether payroll clears.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Payroll Prep skill?
Use Payroll Prep when your Claude Code task falls under the General category — specifically in the business ops area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Payroll Prep" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/general/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Payroll Prep skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Payroll Prep is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

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APA
anthropics. (2026). Payroll Prep [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/payroll-prep/
BibTeX
@misc{payroll-prep-2026,
  author    = {anthropics},
  title     = {Payroll Prep [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/payroll-prep/}
}

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