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Budget And Fee Manager Scott Margetts

Budget And Fee Manager Scott Margetts is an agent skill (a SKILL.md file) from lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills. Matter budgeting and ongoing WIP/variance monitoring. It works with Claude Code, Codex and GitHub Copilot and has 898 GitHub stars. Install it by copying the skill folder into your agent's skills directory.

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Claude

Claude Code loads skills from ~/.claude/skills/ (all projects) or .claude/skills/ (one project):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.git
cp -r awesome-legal-skills/skills/budget-and-fee-manager-scott-margetts ~/.claude/skills/budget-and-fee-manager-scott-margetts   # personal, or .claude/skills in a project

In the Claude apps, zip the budget-and-fee-manager-scott-margetts folder and upload it under Customize > Skills > + > Upload a skill (code execution must be on).

ChatGPT / Codex

Codex reads skills from .agents/skills/ in a repo or ~/.agents/skills/ for every project:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.git
cp -r awesome-legal-skills/skills/budget-and-fee-manager-scott-margetts .agents/skills/budget-and-fee-manager-scott-margetts   # repo; ~/.agents/skills for all projects

Standalone skills also load in the ChatGPT desktop app.

Cursor

Cursor loads skills from .cursor/skills/ (or ~/.cursor/skills/) and also reads .claude/skills/:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.git
cp -r awesome-legal-skills/skills/budget-and-fee-manager-scott-margetts .cursor/skills/budget-and-fee-manager-scott-margetts   # project; ~/.cursor/skills for all projects

Source (checked Oct 7, 2026): code.claude.com/docs/en/skills (opens in a new tab), support.claude.com/en/articles/12512180-using-skills-in-claude (opens in a new tab), learn.chatgpt.com/docs/build-skills (opens in a new tab), cursor.com/docs/context/skills (opens in a new tab)

What this skill does

Matter budgeting and ongoing WIP/variance monitoring. Build phase-based fee estimates at matter setup, run bottom-up budgets by jurisdiction or workstream, calculate contingency, and structure AFA arrangements (fixed fee, capped fee, phased fixed fees). Ongoing monitoring: WIP tracking against budget, proportionality assessment (spend vs progress), variance commentary with root cause analysis, forecast-to-complete, realisation monitoring, write-off analysis.

When it triggers

  • Trigger on: 'build a budget', 'fee estimate', 'what will this cost', 'WIP review', 'budget vs actual', 'how are we tracking against budget', 'we're over budget', 'realisation is poor', 'what's our ETC', 'budget for the German workstream', '

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How do I install the Budget And Fee Manager Scott Margetts skill?

Copy the budget-and-fee-manager-scott-margetts folder (the one containing SKILL.md) into ~/.claude/skills/ for Claude Code, .agents/skills/ for Codex or .cursor/skills/ for Cursor. The agent picks it up automatically when a task matches its description.

Is the Budget And Fee Manager Scott Margetts skill free?

Yes. The repository is open source under the Apache-2.0 license.

Is Budget And Fee Manager Scott Margetts maintained?

The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 19, 2026. appsgit only lists skills from repositories with a commit in the last six months.