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title: "Variance commentary - Air Market"
description: "At month-end close, someone has to explain why each line went up or down. This writes that commentary for every P&L and balance-sheet line that crosses your threshold, comparing against last period a…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/variance-commentary"
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[Air Market](/) / [Finance](/category/finance) / Variance commentary

Skill by [Anthropic](/@anthropics)

# Variance commentary

Explain every number that moved, before anyone asks why

## What this does

At month-end close, someone has to explain why each line went up or down. This writes that commentary for every P&L and balance-sheet line that crosses your threshold, comparing against last period and against budget, and tracing the movement back to what was actually happening in the business. Reach for it when the close package is due.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Write flux commentary for the month-end close package
- Compare this period against prior period and against budget
- Explain what actually drove each variance

## Information

**Variance commentary at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Anthropic](/@anthropics) |
| Category | [Finance](/category/finance) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 2 KB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [anthropics/financial-services](https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services/tree/bb4a2b3e53cf27f8900b33ed6a2d95ed32e57f1d/plugins/vertical-plugins/fund-admin/skills/variance-commentary) |
| GitHub stars | 34,484 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 1,357, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Variance commentary and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Variance commentary's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | bb4a2b3e53cf27f8900b33ed6a2d95ed32e57f1d |
| Content hash | c58b22969818f8704ee150815f244764c9de3eaaedd8896ec94103cc611c5b05 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services/blob/bb4a2b3e53cf27f8900b33ed6a2d95ed32e57f1d/plugins/vertical-plugins/fund-admin/skills/variance-commentary/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Variance commentary](/security/variance-commentary)

## About Variance commentary

Writes flux commentary across the P&L and balance sheet, covering every line that crosses your threshold, with the current period set against both the prior period and budget.

Each variance is explained from the underlying activity, rather than left as a number that changed.

Built for the month-end close package and ongoing management reporting.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Variance commentary safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Variance commentary and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit bb4a2b3e53cf, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/variance-commentary.

### How do I install Variance commentary?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/variance-commentary on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services/tree/bb4a2b3e53cf27f8900b33ed6a2d95ed32e57f1d/plugins/vertical-plugins/fund-admin/skills/variance-commentary. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Finance listings](/category/finance)
- [Everything by Anthropic](/@anthropics)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/variance-commentary>