# The Monthly Report Skill Pack

Nine Claude Skills that take a contractor's progress claim, a pile of variations
and an EOT claim, and turn them into a monthly report you can sign.

By Chiang Ning. chiangning.net. Free to use and adapt.

## Running order

The skills are designed to run in sequence. Each one's output feeds the next.

| # | Skill | What it does |
|---|-------|--------------|
| 01 | `claim-check` | Assesses the progress claim against the schedule of values |
| 02 | `variation-log` | Logs every variation with its cost and time impact |
| 03 | `eot-check` | Tests the delay claim against the programme and the notice clause |
| 04 | `cost-report` | Rolls it into budget vs committed vs forecast |
| 05 | `programme` | Updates the programme and forecasts a defensible completion date |
| 06 | `risk-log` | Consolidates risks, RFIs and decisions, with owners and dates |
| 07 | `site-log` | Captions the photos and writes the progress narrative |
| 08 | `report-writer` | Assembles the report in your house format and voice |
| 09 | `write-a-skill` | Bottles the whole run, so next month is one command |

## How to install

1. Create a `skills` folder in your Claude project (or use your existing one).
2. Copy each skill's folder in, keeping the `SKILL.md` filename.
3. Restart the session. Claude will pick up the skills automatically.
4. Call one by name, for example: `run claim-check on this month's claim`.

The official Skills format and reference examples are at
https://github.com/anthropics/skills

## Before you use these

Every skill in this pack also lists open-source, publicly maintained
equivalents at the bottom of its `SKILL.md`. Most of them come from
https://github.com/datadrivenconstruction/DDC_Skills_for_AI_Agents_in_Construction
which is worth cloning whole if you work in construction.

If a real tool exists, use the real tool. These skills are for the judgement
layer around it: assessing, reconciling, writing.

## The honest limits

- These are contract administration aids, not legal or contractual advice.
- Nothing here replaces a quantity surveyor, a programmer or a lawyer.
- Every figure a skill produces must trace back to a source document. If a
  figure cannot be traced, the correct output is "not provided", never an
  estimate that reads like a fact.
- The assessment, and the signature at the bottom of the report, stay yours.

## Conventions

Written for Australian English, DD/MM/YYYY dates, and standard Australian
construction contract terminology (progress claim, variation, extension of
time, practical completion). Adapt the wording to your jurisdiction.