Agent skill

Emergency Fund

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Size an emergency fund from essential spend and real risk factors — not a one-size 'six months' — with the funding timeline and where the money should sit.

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Install Emergency Fund

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill emergency-fund -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills emergency-fund --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/emergency-fund .claude/skills/emergency-fund && 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
emergency-fund
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
665 words
Files
2 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Size an emergency fund from essential spend and real risk factors — not a one-size 'six months' — with the funding timeline and where the money should sit.

  • Asked how big should my emergency fund be
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Programmatic Helper and Framework: The Sizing Rules, plus 8 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3
  • Do I have enough saved

What it does

Emergency Fund is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Size an emergency fund from essential spend and real risk factors — not a one-size 'six months' — with the funding timeline and where the money should sit. Use when asked how big should my emergency fund be, do I have enough saved, emergency fund or invest, or how many months of expenses do I need. Produces the risk-adjusted target from the script, the essential-spend worksheet, the funding plan, and the what-counts-as-an-emergency rules.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/emergency_fund.py`).

It sits in Education, covering Educational content. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked how big should my emergency fund be
  • Do I have enough saved
  • How many months of expenses do I need

Example prompts

  • “six months”
  • “/emergency-fund”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3

    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

Emergency Fund loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 114 tokens; SKILL.md has 665 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~114
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 665 words, ~1,337 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/emergency-fund/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
emergency-fund
description
Size an emergency fund from essential spend and real risk factors — not a one-size 'six months' — with the funding timeline and where the money should sit. Use when asked how big should my emergency fund be, do I have enough saved, emergency fund or invest, or how many months of expenses do I need. Produces the risk-adjusted target from the script, the essential-spend worksheet, the funding plan, and the what-counts-as-an-emergency rules.

Emergency Fund Skill

"Six months of expenses" is a slogan wearing a decimal — the real number depends on which expenses (essential, not total) and which risks (one income or two, steady or variable, how fast the job replaces itself). This skill computes the target from those inputs, builds the funding timeline, and writes the two rule-sets that make a fund work in practice: what counts as an emergency, and when to stop adding to the fund and start investing the surplus.

What This Skill Produces

  • The risk-adjusted target — base 3 months of essentials, plus priced risk adders, from the script
  • The essential-spend worksheet — the emergency budget, which is smaller than the current budget on purpose
  • The funding plan — gap, monthly rate, completion date, and what pauses (not stops) contributions
  • The two rule-sets — is-this-an-emergency, and the fund-is-full-now-what line

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • Essential monthly spend — housing, food, utilities, insurance, minimum debt payments, transport; NOT the current all-in lifestyle number (help build this if they only know the total)
  • The risk profile — single or dual income, income variability (freelance/commission/seasonal), dependents, how specialized the job market is
  • Current liquid savings and monthly saving capacity — for the gap and timeline
  • What they're funding instead — high-interest debt or an unmatched 401k competing for the same dollars changes the sequencing conversation

Programmatic Helper

bash
python3 scripts/emergency_fund.py --essentials 3400 --saved 4000 --monthly-save 500
python3 scripts/emergency_fund.py --essentials 3400 --saved 4000 --monthly-save 500 --single-income --variable-income --json

Deterministic: base 3 months + 1 (single income) + 2 (variable income) + 1 (dependents) + 1 (niche job market), capped by honesty — the flags are the risk conversation made explicit.

Framework: The Sizing Rules

  • Essentials, not lifestyle — the emergency budget already cancelled the subscriptions; sizing on total spend overshoots the target by months and delays being protected at all
  • Risk adders are facts, not fears — each flag maps to a real replacement-time or volatility mechanism; a dual-income steady-job household genuinely needs less than a solo freelancer, and telling both "six months" mis-serves both
  • Sequencing beats purity — a starter fund (~1 month) before attacking high-interest debt, the full fund after: 24% APR debt is itself an emergency, but zero buffer is how debt gets new charges
  • Liquidity is the product — the fund lives where it's reachable in days without penalty or market risk; yield is the tiebreaker, never the criterion; anything past the target is investing money wearing a savings label
  • Emergencies are involuntary, necessary, and unexpected — job loss, medical, the transmission; not the sale, the trip, or the holidays (those are sinking funds — name the distinction in the artifact)
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Output Format


Emergency Fund Plan: [household]

The Target

[Script output: months, adders, target, gap, months-covered-today, timeline]

The Essential Budget

CategoryMonthlyNotes
[The emergency-mode number, line by line]

The Funding Plan

[Monthly rate → completion date · what pauses contributions (a real emergency) vs. what doesn't (a sale) · the starter-fund sequencing if high-interest debt exists]

The Rules

It's an emergency if: involuntary, necessary, unexpected — all three. The fund is full when: [target] — after that, the same transfer redirects to [next goal], because past-target "safety" is just uninvested money.

Educational model, not financial advice — verify with a licensed professional before acting on it.


Quality Checks

  • The target is computed on essentials, with the worksheet shown
  • Every risk adder maps to a stated mechanism, not generic caution
  • The sequencing question (debt, match) is addressed when it applies
  • The all-three emergency test appears in the artifact
  • The stop-adding line exists — the fund has a ceiling, not just a floor

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not quote "3–6 months" as doctrine — compute this household's number and show why
  • Do not size on lifestyle spend — it delays protection to fund cancelled subscriptions
  • Do not chase yield with the emergency money — the fund's job is existing, not earning
  • Do not let the fund become the goal — past target, saving more is a comfort habit with a real opportunity cost
  • Do not shame the starter-fund compromise — one month of buffer changes lives before the spreadsheet is happy

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "How big should my emergency fund be?"
  • "Do I have enough saved?"
  • "How many months of expenses do I need?"

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (scripts) in skills/emergency-fund of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/emergency_fund.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Emergency Fund

What does Emergency Fund do?

Size an emergency fund from essential spend and real risk factors — not a one-size 'six months' — with the funding timeline and where the money should sit. Emergency Fund is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Size an emergency fund from essential spend and real risk factors — not a one-size 'six months' — with the funding timeline and where the money should sit.

When should I use Emergency Fund?

Emergency Fund fits situations like: asked how big should my emergency fund be; do I have enough saved; how many months of expenses do I need.

How do I install Emergency Fund in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill emergency-fund -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/emergency-fund in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/emergency-fund in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Emergency Fund in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill emergency-fund -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/emergency-fund in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/emergency-fund in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Emergency Fund 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill emergency-fund -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/emergency-fund, .gemini/skills/emergency-fund, .github/skills/emergency-fund and .opencode/skills/emergency-fund in your project.

What does Emergency Fund need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Emergency Fund needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Emergency Fund 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 Emergency Fund 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Emergency Fund use?

Emergency Fund 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 Emergency Fund use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Emergency Fund?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.