Break Trace

anthropics/financial-services/plugins/agent-plugins/gl-reconciler/skills/break-trace

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Root-cause a reconciliation break to its source transaction or posting — follow the audit trail from the break row back to the originating entry on each side and state what differs and why. Use after gl-recon has classified a break.

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AI-generated overview

Traces a reconciliation break back to its source transaction or posting and states the root cause.

What it does
Takes a single reconciliation break row and follows the audit trail on both the general ledger and subledger sides. It pulls the originating journal entry or posting and the matching subledger transaction, then diffs attributes such as posting date, FX rate, account mapping, quantity sign and amount sign. It produces a one-sentence root-cause statement plus a structured record with owner, expected clear date and recommended action. It diagnoses only and does not post adjustments.
When to use it
Use after a reconciliation break has already been classified and needs to be explained. It fits investigation of timing, FX, mapping or duplicate-posting differences between GL and subledger records. It is intended for diagnosis and hand-off, not for making accounting entries.
Requirements
Requires access to an internal general ledger MCP and a subledger MCP to fetch entries and transactions. Ships no scripts; it is instructions only.

Root-cause a break

Given a single break row (key, GL values, subledger values, bucket, likely cause), trace it to source and produce a root-cause statement.

Trace path

  1. Pull the GL side — via the internal-gl MCP, fetch the journal entry or posting that produced this GL line: entry id, posting date, source system, batch id, preparer.
  2. Pull the subledger side — via the subledger MCP, fetch the matching transaction: trade id, trade/settle dates, counterparty, source feed, FX rate used.
  3. Diff the attributes — line up posting date, FX rate/date, account mapping, quantity sign, amount sign. The differing attribute is usually the cause.

Cause → statement

Write the root cause as a single sentence in the form "⟨side⟩ ⟨did what⟩ because ⟨reason⟩", e.g.:

  • "GL posted on settle date (T+2) while subledger posted on trade date — timing break, will clear on 2026-05-07."
  • "Subledger used WM/R 4pm rate; GL used Bloomberg close — FX break of 12 bps on the base amount."
  • "Security ABC123 maps to GL account 11420 in the mapping table but the subledger fed 11410 — mapping break, raise to reference-data."
  • "Subledger posted the trade twice (trade ids 88412 and 88419 are duplicates) — duplicate post, suppress 88419."

Output

For each traced break, return:

json
{  "key": "...",  "root_cause": "one sentence as above",  "owner": "ops | reference-data | accounting | upstream-system",  "expected_clear_date": "YYYY-MM-DD or null",  "action": "monitor | adjust | raise-ticket | suppress"}

Only the resolver writes adjustments — this skill diagnoses, it does not post.

Source and attribution

Source:anthropics/financial-servicesinplugins/agent-plugins/gl-reconciler/skills/break-traceat commit574ed36

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