tax-plain-english
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Use this skill whenever the user asks a tax question — even casual ones. Triggers include: questions about deductions, filing status, deadlines, refunds, W-2s, 1099s, capital gains, self-employment tax, home office, depreciation, estimated payments, tax credits, HSA/FSA, retirement accounts (401k, IRA, Roth), inheritance, gifts, rental income, crypto taxes, business expenses, payroll taxes, sales tax, or anything mentioning "the IRS", "HMRC", "write off", "tax return", "tax bracket", or "owe ta…
What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
Changes files outside its own folder
Safer alternatives
Other copies in this repository
- governance/malicious_skills/tax/tax-plain-english-1
- governance/malicious_skills/tax/tax-plain-english-2
- governance/modified_skills/dod_instruction/tax/tax-plain-english-1
- governance/modified_skills/dod_instruction/tax/tax-plain-english-2
- governance/modified_skills/append_after_canary/tax/tax-plain-english-1
- governance/modified_skills/append_after_canary/tax/tax-plain-english-2
- governance/modified_skills/jailbreaking_evaluator/tax/tax-plain-english-1
- governance/modified_skills/jailbreaking_evaluator/tax/tax-plain-english-2
- governance/modified_skills/paraphrase_instruction/tax/tax-plain-english-1
- governance/modified_skills/paraphrase_instruction/tax/tax-plain-english-2
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'tax-plain-english' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'tax-plain-english' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named tax-plain-english already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/ShoumikSaha/agent-skill-security' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'b8804eaafd70288f0382d08b6becc5d6ca02f102' -- 'benign_skills/tax/tax-plain-english' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'benign_skills/tax/tax-plain-english' ~/.agents/skills/'tax-plain-english' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'tax-plain-english' ~/.claude/skills/'tax-plain-english' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-07 | b8804ea | 100 |