Capital Allocation Analysis (InvestSkill)Finance Skill
This prompt provides a broad capital-allocation report outline, but its custom safety grades are not validated ratings. Review found outdated ex-dividend timing, an incorrect tax holding-period window, cash-flow double-counting and ambiguous buyback units. Reconcile company filings and distribution terms before using the checklist; fixed thresholds and income projections are assumptions. No portfolio, tax outcome or host execution was tested.
- Assessment score
- 63/100
- Snapshot risk
- High
- Audit conclusion
- Needs review
How the assessment score works
Pineify weights evidence recorded from the captured files: Skill structure 15%, Instruction clarity 20%, Dependency transparency 20%, Permission transparency 20%, Safety guardrails 15%, Finance task fit 10%. Each signal receives full credit for Yes, one-quarter credit for unknown, and none for No.
The score is not an output accuracy test or user rating. Read the findings and financial assumptions even when the score is high. Risk labels summarize recorded permissions and findings; they do not measure investment risk or certify that installation is safe.
Discovery
What this Skill helps an agent do.
Use the tasks and topics below to judge whether the captured workflow fits your question. Read its findings, dependencies and data requirements before relying on an output.
Domains and assets
Topics
Trust
Evidence from the captured directory.
This content snapshot assessment does not certify the repository, current files, or installation environment. "Not verified" means the captured files did not support a Yes or No conclusion.
License
GitHub reports the repository license as MIT License.
Review state
- Automated review
- Automated review
- Install tested
- No
- Human reviewed
- Not verified
Snapshot
- Files reviewed
- 1
- Captured
- 2026-07-29 07:31 UTC
- Snapshot ID
- fsh-dividend-analysis-yennanliu-2026-07-29-001
Permissions
FilesystemRead
NoThe skill does not read local files. It accepts ticker symbols or portfolio lists as input.
FilesystemWrite
NoThe skill does not write local files. Output is presented as text.
NetworkAccess
YesData verification requires web search for current price/market cap. Data sources include SEC EDGAR, Simply Safe Dividends, Dividend.com, Bloomberg, Morningstar, GuruFocus, etc. accessed via web search.
ShellExecution
NoPure prompt skill with no code execution.
CodeExecution
NoPure prompt skill with no code execution.
ExternalCredentials
Not verifiedBloomberg, FactSet and premium dividend research are suggested, but no access method or entitlement is established. Public filing research need not use these services.
Dependencies
No dependencies were named in this captured record.
Data sources named by the Skill
Web market data
Web search for current prices, dividend data, and capital allocation metrics. No API key required.
SEC EDGAR filings
SEC 10-K and 10-Q for financial data and capital allocation disclosures. No API key required.
Snapshot assessment
63/100
Pineify Finance Skill snapshot assessment, version 1.0.0. Generated 2026-10-20 00:00 UTC.
High risk · Needs review
Skill structure
70/100Instruction clarity
81/100Dependency transparency
59/100Permission transparency
75/100Safety guardrails
30/100Finance task fit
46/100Audit findings
High
Reconcile cash sources and uses before judging coverage
Both levered and unlevered free cash flow normally deduct capital investment; the source suggests adding capex back as a separate use merely because FCF is unlevered. Define and reconcile the issuer metric, then include borrowing, equity issuance, asset sales and opening cash as needed instead of forcing uses to 100% of FCF. Negative or zero FCF makes payout ratios unsuitable. Cash divided by annual dividends measures years, not the claimed months; multiply by 12 for months.
High
Dividend dates and US tax conditions need correction
The source says record date is normally one business day after ex-date. Under current FINRA Rule 11140, ordinary distributions below 25% normally go ex on the business-day record date; large distributions and other exceptions differ. Use the declared exchange ex-date. IRS Publication 550 specifies more than 60 days within a 121-day window for the usual common-stock holding test, not 120 days, and eligible payers can include qualified foreign corporations. Distribution character and investor circumstances must be checked; MLP payments are not universally a simple tax-free return of capital.
Medium
Share reduction and distribution yield are not investment return
Net buyback rate must use share quantities consistently; cash repurchases minus accounting SBC expense divided by shares is not a share reduction percentage. Average purchase price uses shares purchased, not necessarily shares retired. Reconcile issuance, repurchases and ending shares. EPS accretion or a positive net buyback rate alone does not establish value creation. Dividend yield plus gross buyback yield measures distributions relative to market value, not total shareholder return or an equity risk premium. A positive Treasury spread is not automatically attractive.
Medium
Safety grades and capital-allocation scores are custom heuristics
FCF payout and its reciprocal coverage receive 45 combined points, so they double-count one input. This custom Safety Score is not a verified Simply Safe Dividends rating. Chowder thresholds, fixed acquisition multiples, yield bands, leverage bands and the 30–60% income contribution have no supporting study here. Goodwill impairment is a warning to investigate, not proof of original overpayment. Dividend growth can exceed EPS growth temporarily; a changing payout ratio must be modeled rather than applying an immediate unsustainable label. Projected DRIP income requires explicit price, reinvestment, tax and dividend assumptions.
Low
No supporting files or README in the snapshot
The skill directory contains only SKILL.md with no README, reference files, or supporting documentation. All instructions are inline in the 30,214 byte SKILL.md.
Sources and relations
Context around this Skill.
Repository
yennanliu/InvestSkill
topic
Dividend safety & payout ratio analysis
topic
Dividend growth trajectory & sustainability
topic
Capital allocation quality: dividends, buybacks, M&A, debt
topic
Share buyback discipline & price timing
topic
Dividend yield trap detection & FCF verification
agent
Claude Code
collection
US stock analysis
guide
Reviewing finance skills before install
Registry
Read this record as data.
The public record includes the page-safe snapshot, evidence, assessment, taxonomy, and relations. Internal revision fields stay outside the public projection.
- Record ID
- github:yennanliu/investskill:plugins/us-stock-analysis/skills/dividend-analysis
- Snapshot ID
- fsh-dividend-analysis-yennanliu-2026-07-29-001