# Payhawk agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

> Ready-made Payhawk playbooks for AI agents: budget vs actual variance report for Payhawk, review Payhawk card requests with AI, triage your Payhawk expense approval queue with AI. Free SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or one click in RevampKey.

## Skills

- [Use Payhawk safely with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/payhawk/skills/essentials.md): Sets the company scope, picks the right Payhawk tool for each expense, card, budget or PayQL question, and asks before any change to spend, cards or approvals.
- [Budget vs actual variance report for Payhawk](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/payhawk/skills/budget-spend-variance-report.md): Compares Payhawk budgets with actual spend for a chosen period, flags categories over or under plan, and explains the largest variances from the expense evidence. It is read-only and changes no budgets or expenses.
- [Review Payhawk card requests with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/payhawk/skills/card-request-review.md): Reviews pending card requests against budget, policy and the cardholder's details, then prepares a recommendation for the approver. It asks before creating or changing any card.
- [Triage your Payhawk expense approval queue with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/payhawk/skills/expense-approval-queue-triage.md): Works through the pending expense approvals in Payhawk, sorts them by risk and age, and drafts approve, return or hold recommendations. It prepares decisions for you and does not approve or return anything without your explicit yes.

## Install

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

```bash
for s in essentials budget-spend-variance-report card-request-review expense-approval-queue-triage; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/payhawk-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/payhawk/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done
```

### What is a Payhawk agent skill?

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

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

1 of the 4 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 Payhawk.

### 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 Payhawk; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

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

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

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