# Gusto agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

> Ready-made Gusto playbooks for AI agents: reconcile contractor payments in Gusto, build an employee roster and department report with AI, check if your Gusto payroll is ready to run. Free SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or one click in RevampKey.

## Skills

- [Use Gusto with AI safely](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/gusto/skills/essentials.md): Connects your Gusto account to an AI assistant with access limited to the data categories you grant. It confirms which company it is reading and asks before running payroll, creating a company or logging time.
- [Reconcile contractor payments in Gusto](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/gusto/skills/contractor-payment-reconciliation.md): Audits contractor payment groups and individual payments against each contractor's record, flagging missing, duplicate and mismatched payments. Read-only: it never pays, cancels or edits anything.
- [Build an employee roster and department report with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/gusto/skills/employee-roster-and-department-report.md): Builds a headcount report by department and location from your Gusto employee records, keeping personal details out unless you need them. It reconciles totals before reporting and does not change any records.
- [Check if your Gusto payroll is ready to run](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/gusto/skills/payroll-run-readiness-check.md): Reviews your upcoming Gusto payroll for missing hours, employees without active pay and unusual pay periods, then gives a go or hold verdict. It never runs payroll without your explicit approval.
- [Gusto R&D tax credit qualification review](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/gusto/skills/rd-tax-credit-qualification-review.md): Screens whether your Gusto company plausibly qualifies for the federal R&D tax credit, estimates the credit as a range, and separates what the data shows from what a tax professional must decide. It is read-only and does not file anything.

## Install

- RevampKey: connect Gusto at https://revampkey.com/marketplace/gusto; the skills come with it.
- Any Agent Skills tool, into the current project:

```bash
for s in essentials contractor-payment-reconciliation employee-roster-and-department-report payroll-run-readiness-check rd-tax-credit-qualification-review; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/gusto-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/gusto/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done
```

### What is a Gusto agent skill?

A SKILL.md file: a short playbook an AI agent loads when your request matches it. Each Gusto skill describes one job, which Gusto tools to use in which order, what to check first and when to stop and ask you.

### Do the Gusto skills change anything on their own?

3 of the 5 only read. The others tell the agent to show you the change and wait for a yes before it creates, edits or deletes anything in Gusto.

### Which tools can use these skills?

Any agent that reads the open Agent Skills format: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code with Copilot and RevampKey. In RevampKey they are attached when you connect Gusto; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

### Do I need the Gusto MCP server too?

Yes. The skills tell the agent how to do the work; the Gusto MCP server gives it the tools to do it. The Gusto MCP setup guide covers every client.

MCP setup guide: https://revampkey.com/marketplace/gusto.md