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Agent skill

Capital Allocation

by majiayu000 in majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Evaluates where to spend limited capital — investment appraisal, hurdle rates, payback, and comparing proposals that are not alike.

MITAuto-check passedSales & Support

Install Capital Allocation

skills CLI
$ npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill capital-allocation -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install majiayu000/claude-skill-registry capital-allocation --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/business/capital-allocation .claude/skills/capital-allocation && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
capital-allocation
GitHub stars
666
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~707 tokens
SKILL.md length
377 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
1,273
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Evaluates where to spend limited capital — investment appraisal, hurdle rates, payback, and comparing proposals that are not alike.

  • Tasks that involve Proposals and quotes
  • SKILL.md covers Appraise on incremental cash, Read payback for what it tells…, Interrogate the case, not the… and Look back, or the numbers stay…, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Capital Allocation is an agent skill from majiayu000/claude-skill-registry. Evaluates where to spend limited capital — investment appraisal, hurdle rates, payback, and comparing proposals that are not alike. Use this to evaluate an investment or major purchase, compare competing funding requests, set a hurdle rate, decide between building and buying, or review whether past investments delivered what was claimed.

Its SKILL.md is about 710 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `metadata.json`).

It sits in Sales & Support, covering Proposals and quotes. The repository describes itself as: Searchable Claude Code skills catalog with source-linked guides and generated registry artifacts. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Proposals and quotes

Example prompts

  • “Use the capital-allocation skill to evaluate where to spend limited capital — investment appraisal, hurdle rates, payback, and comparing proposals…”
  • “/capital-allocation”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2d14a69. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Capital Allocation loads about 707 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 377 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~90
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~707

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from majiayu000/claude-skill-registry at commit 2d14a69, republished under its MIT licence (© majiayu000). 377 words, ~707 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/capital-allocation/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
capital-allocation
description
Evaluates where to spend limited capital — investment appraisal, hurdle rates, payback, and comparing proposals that are not alike. Use this to evaluate an investment or major purchase, compare competing funding requests, set a hurdle rate, decide between building and buying, or review whether past investments delivered what was claimed.

Capital allocation

Choosing among investments is choosing what not to do. This is the appraisal of individual proposals; which businesses and bets the company should be in belongs to corporate-strategy:portfolio-strategy.

Appraise on incremental cash

Only cash flows that change because of the decision belong in the analysis:

  • Sunk costs are irrelevant. Money already spent is not a reason to continue, though it is reliably presented as one.
  • Allocated overhead is usually irrelevant. If the cost occurs anyway, it does not belong in the incremental case.
  • Opportunity cost is relevant, including the capacity consumed that then cannot serve anything else.
  • Working capital is a real outflow. Growth that consumes cash is not free because it is growth.

Discount for time and risk. A hurdle rate should reflect the risk of the specific proposal — applying one company-wide rate systematically overfunds risky projects and starves safe ones.

Read payback for what it tells you

Payback ignores everything after the threshold and so is a poor ranking tool. It is a good liquidity and uncertainty measure: how long capital is at risk, and how far into an uncertain future the case depends on.

Use net present value to decide, payback to understand exposure. A proposal with strong NPV whose returns all arrive in years four and five is a forecasting question as much as an investment one.

Show full SKILL.md (154 more words)Show less

Interrogate the case, not the sponsor

Every proposal arrives advocated for. The useful questions are structural:

  • What has to be true for this to work, and which of those is least certain?
  • What is the counterfactual — what happens if we do nothing?
  • Where is the optionality: can it be staged so a small commitment buys information before the large one?
  • Who is accountable for the benefit after approval?

Stage-gating dominates all-or-nothing commitment where uncertainty is high. Paying for information first is usually cheaper than being right by luck.

Look back, or the numbers stay fictional

Compare realized outcomes against the approved case, and make it routine rather than punitive. Where nobody looks back, forecasts drift optimistic because optimism is rewarded at approval and never tested afterwards.

Never

  • Include sunk cost in a forward case.
  • Apply one hurdle rate to proposals of different risk.
  • Rank by payback.
  • Approve a benefit with no owner after approval.

© majiayu000, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/business/capital-allocation of majiayu000/claude-skill-registry.

  • SKILL.md
  • metadata.json

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2d14a69

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, which our catalogue first saw on October 8, 2026.

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Questions about Capital Allocation

What does Capital Allocation do?

Evaluates where to spend limited capital — investment appraisal, hurdle rates, payback, and comparing proposals that are not alike. Capital Allocation is an agent skill from majiayu000/claude-skill-registry. Evaluates where to spend limited capital — investment appraisal, hurdle rates, payback, and comparing proposals that are not alike.

When should I use Capital Allocation?

Capital Allocation fits situations like: tasks that involve Proposals and quotes.

How do I install Capital Allocation in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill capital-allocation -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/business/capital-allocation in majiayu000/claude-skill-registry) into .claude/skills/capital-allocation in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Capital Allocation in Codex?

Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill capital-allocation -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/business/capital-allocation in majiayu000/claude-skill-registry) into .agents/skills/capital-allocation in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Capital Allocation in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill capital-allocation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/capital-allocation, .gemini/skills/capital-allocation, .github/skills/capital-allocation and .opencode/skills/capital-allocation in your project.

What does Capital Allocation need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Capital Allocation is instructions for the agent only.

Does Capital Allocation access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Capital Allocation safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Capital Allocation use?

Capital Allocation is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Capital Allocation use?

About 707 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Capital Allocation?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Capital Allocation: Doc Coauthoring (aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore, 195 stars), Audit Onboarding Proposal (hoangnb24/repository-harness, 1.2k stars), No Negative Echo (LB623/no-negative-echo, 897 stars) and GEO Service Proposal Generator (zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude, 11k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Capital Allocation?

majiayu000 (a GitHub user) maintains it in majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, which has 666 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,273 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: majiayu000/claude-skill-registry on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.