budget-plan

What problem does it solve?

Creating and validating project budgets is error-prone and time-consuming when stakeholders rely on qualitative estimates. This skill enforces hard guardrails and produces a reproducible .xlsx budget with explicit TBD placeholders where data is missing.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Draft-first budgeting: parses user input, fills a structured JSON schema, and renders a formatted .xlsx budget with line items, categories, owner, status, and variance.
• Guardrails and fidelity: never-invent costs, no reconciling placeholder lines, preserve fuzzy amounts, handle approved totals, and flag integrity issues.
• Use Case: Create a baseline budget for a migration with known line items and an approved total, generating a sponsor-ready document.

Quick Start

Describe the project situation in plain language to generate a baseline budget workbook using the budget-plan skill.