# Budget And Fee Manager Scott Margetts (agent skill)

> 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 and Codex and has 826 GitHub stars. Install it by copying the skill folder into your agent's skills directory.

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.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills |
| Skill path | skills/budget-and-fee-manager-scott-margetts/SKILL.md |
| Skill name | budget-and-fee-manager-scott-margetts |
| GitHub stars | 826 |
| Installs on skills.sh | not listed |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Skills in repo | 1 |
| Plugin marketplace | no |
| Official | no |
| Works with | Claude Code, Codex |
| Category | Data & analysis |
| Last commit | Oct 2, 2026 |

## 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', '

## Add this skill

### Claude Code

```sh
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 skill folder and upload it under Customize > Skills > + > Upload a skill (code execution must be on).

### ChatGPT / Codex

```sh
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
```

### Cursor

```sh
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
```

Sources (checked 2026-10-07): https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills, https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12512180-using-skills-in-claude, https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/build-skills, https://cursor.com/docs/context/skills

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