Finance
Budget & Runway
A plain-language budget and runway for your release, tour, or year.
What you walk away with
- Budget by category (recording, marketing, travel, gear, fees)
- Runway: months of funds at your current spend
- Answer to your spend question ("can I afford X?")
- One recommended money move
What the agent asks you
- The project or period
- Money in (income) and money out (expenses) — rough is fine
- The decision you're facing
How it runs
- 1Gather the numbers
- 2Categorize
- 3Calculate runway
- 4Answer the question
Guardrails
- General information, not tax advice — confirm with a CPA or tax professional.
- Uses only the numbers you give — no guessing your finances
- Never invents facts about you — it asks.
- Never collects or stores your SSN.
Inside the package
Own this skill and download it as a portable package — a SKILL.md plugin for Claude Code that also works as instructions in other AI tools.
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---
name: "budget-planning"
version: "2.0.0"
title: "Budget & Runway"
description: "A plain-language budget and runway for your release, tour, or year."
desk: "business"
category: "Finance"
author: "Artispreneur / ROSTR Runtime"
license: "Personal & Commercial Use License for Artists"
execution_mode: "autonomous_with_review"
inputs:
- "The project or period"
- "Money in (income) and money out (expenses) — rough is fine"
- "The decision you're facing"
deliverables:
- "Budget by category (recording, marketing, travel, gear, fees)"
- "Runway: months of funds at your current spend"
- "Answer to your spend question (\"can I afford X?\")"
- "One recommended money move"
tools:
- "create_document"
guardrails:
- "General information, not tax advice — confirm with a CPA or tax professional."
- "Uses only the numbers you give — no guessing your finances"
compatibility:
- "Artispreneur Artie Orchestrator"
- "ROSTR Runtime v2"
- "Claude Code & Claude Desktop (.claude/skills)"
- "Cursor & Windsurf (.agents/skills)"
- "OpenAI Agents & LangChain"
---
# Budget & Runway
A plain-language budget for your release, tour, or year.
## System Overview
- **Desk Specialization:** `business`
- **Typical Runtime:** ~15 minutes
- **Execution Engine:** ROSTR Runtime / Artie Multi-Agent Ecosystem
## Verified Deliverables
- Budget by category (recording, marketing, travel, gear, fees)
- Runway: months of funds at your current spend
- Answer to your spend question ("can I afford X?")
- One recommended money move
## Required Inputs
- The project or period
- Money in (income) and money out (expenses) — rough is fine
- The decision you're facing
## Autonomous Playbook
Goal: a budget a non-accountant can use to decide.
1. Ask the project/period, available funds, expected income, and known or planned expenses. Rough numbers are fine; label estimates.
2. Categorize: recording/mixing/mastering, artwork/video, marketing/ads, PR, distribution fees, travel, gear, other.
3. Compute totals, the gap, and runway = available funds ÷ average monthly spend.
4. Answer the specific question ("can I afford a $2,000 video?") with the trade-off.
5. Recommend one money move (cut, delay, fund, or proceed). Defer tax questions to a professional.
6. Call create_document (type "budget") with a table.
## Quality Guardrails & Security
- General information, not tax advice — confirm with a CPA or tax professional.
- Uses only the numbers you give — no guessing your finances
- Never invent facts about the artist (names, credits, numbers, links).
- Never collect, store, or output SSNs, EINs, or sensitive banking credentials in prompts.
- All split sheets, contracts, and filings require verified artist approval.
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*Artispreneur Skill Specification · https://artispreneur.com/services/budget-planning · Art Means Business.*