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CRE Skills Plugin
A Claude plugin delivering a large library of commercial real estate skills covering the full investment lifecycle -- deal sourcing, screening, underwriting, structuring, due diligence, capital markets, market research, asset management, leasing, investor relations, development, disposition, tax planning, ESG, portfolio strategy, and daily property operations. Each skill includes structured process logic, reference documents, chain connections to other skills, and Python calculators for precise quantitative output. Deploys as a plugin in Claude Code (CLI or Desktop Code tab) or as a local MCP server for Claude Desktop Chat tab. See Key Stats for current counts and Release Maturity for status by surface.
How the skill taxonomy works for your team
Every skill now declares a classification that tells your team what it is and how much to trust its output. In plain terms: a micro or normal skill does one bounded job — normalize a T-12, size a loan, draft a quarterly LP letter — and is invoked as a single unit. An orchestrator is a conductor that runs several skills in sequence (an underwrite-to-IC pipeline, a document-to-database ingest); it is a workflow, not an atomic tool. A workspace is a business-facing surface that routes a whole domain — your fund team's LP reporting, your asset managers' operations cockpit — to the right specialist skill and holds context across sessions. For a deal team, an asset manager, or a fund team, the classification is not cosmetic: it determines which outputs are decision-grade and therefore need a human sign-off before they reach an investment committee, a lender, or an LP. Skills whose output can land on a board deck or a distribution notice are marked decision-grade and carry an explicit human gate (analyst review, AM/CFO sign-off, IC approval, or lender/investor review) plus a source posture that refuses to emit a final figure it cannot trace to your data — no fabricated model references, no unresolved $X placeholders in a final-marked report. Everything else is advisory screening output your operator validates. See docs/DATA_GRADES.md for the data-grade ladder and docs/integrations/amos-skill-manifest.md for how this metadata is exported to AMOS.
Open core
This repository is the free, open-source core of CRE Skills, licensed under Apache-2.0. It is the knowledge layer that runs locally in your Claude Code session: the skill library, routing, calculators, and the MCP surface. It stays free and open.
A separate, paid edition, cre-skills-pro, is in development as the institution-grade governance layer that composes on top of this core. It adds a deterministic control plane: lifecycle hooks, a four-eyes approval matrix, append-only redacted deal-state memory, an audit log, and a first-run setup TUI, so decision-grade output (IC memos, valuations, lender and LP deliverables) is gated, provenanced, and auditable for institutional use. It will be offered commercially; this free core is not going away.
Anonymous usage signals and any feedback you choose to send remotely also help shape the paid edition. No deal data, financial figures, prompts, or PII are ever collected or used for this. See PRIVACY.md for exactly what is and is not used, and how to keep everything local.
Release Maturity
This release is an internal beta / controlled release candidate. Most top-level skills (1:1 with a single src/skills/<slug>/SKILL.md) are self-contained and usable today. The residential multifamily subsystem and several install surfaces are held to a higher fail-closed bar and are labeled below.
| Surface / component | Status | What this means |
|---|---|---|
| Top-level skills (all but one) | Deployed | Runnable today. Expected behavior per SKILL.md. |
residential_multifamily subsystem |
Stable, awaiting shakedown (v1.0.0-rc1) | Code-complete. Routing core, workflows, roles, tailoring guards (approval-floor / canonical-redefinition / preview-bundle / missing-doc blocker), and refusal-on-missing-input contracts are all active and under test. Subsystem still ships with placeholder org overlays; decision-grade use requires an org onboarding pass (tailoring interview) to supply real data. Final-marked outputs fail closed when required inputs are absent, enforce a period-seal gate (close_status, close_lock_timestamp, budget_version), and must follow the executive output contract. Graduation to status: stable is gated on the first operator shakedown log — see PREVIEW_MODE.md for the contract. |
| Orchestrators | Template / semi-manual | Orchestrators are phase + agent + verdict templates. There is no autonomous engine that sequences phases, polls agents, or aggregates verdicts without Claude acting as conductor. Treat as structured prompts, not fire-and-forget pipelines. |
| Marketplace install | Supported (CLI) | claude plugin marketplace add from Claude Code CLI. Claude Desktop's "Add marketplace" dialog is not supported — this repo does not expose a manifest at that URL. See docs/WHAT-TO-USE-WHEN.md. |
| macOS DMG / Windows EXE installer | Supported | Smoke-tested by scripts/installer_smoke_test.py (fresh install). |
| Cowork ZIP import | Partial | Skills + agents + commands only. Hooks, MCP tools, orchestrators, calculators are not part of the Cowork surface. |
| Manual MCP config (Claude Desktop Chat tab) | Supported | .mcp.json + mcp-server.mjs; operational MCP tools with organizational aliases. |
| Codex / Gemini / Grok / Manus portable ZIP | Experimental (structural CI) | Skills ship as SKILL.md files. A structural smoke test (tests/install_smoke/test_portable_zip.py + the Portable ZIP Smoke workflow) validates ZIP layout, skills-tree mirroring, frontmatter contract, and runtime-file exclusion. Cross-runtime invocation (the skill actually loading and running inside Codex / Gemini / Grok / Manus) is not tested. Treat as experimental. |
Upgrade, uninstall/reinstall, and corrupted-config recovery paths do not currently have automated smoke tests. The existing smoke tests exercise fresh-install only. See docs/install_smoke_test_matrix.md for the full coverage matrix and gaps.
Known Limitations
Full honest statement:
docs/known-limitations.md. The headline v5.2.0 limitations:
- Connectors are not live. Every connector contract and vendor adapter is
status: stub; there is no live API feed to any system. The onlyactiveingestion shape is a shared-drive / email file drop. Seedocs/connectors/CAPABILITY-MATRIX.md(CoStar is not-supported-live per its AI-use T&C; Yardi / MRI / RealPage are blocked-by-vendor). - Generalized cross-skill governance runtime is still deferred. Decision-grade runtime enforcement (source-class tagging, refusal-on-missing-input, period-seal, placeholder scanner) runs as deployed runtime only inside
residential_multifamily. Elsewhere the runtime leg is thefinal_markedselector + the targeted named-allowlist finance-placeholder guard (tests/test_finance_placeholder_guard.py) — a presence-of-discipline check. v5.2.0 adds a corpus-wide static governance scanner (scripts/governance-scan.py) that validates governance declarations over SKILL.md frontmatter + the generated catalog/manifest; it is not a corpus-wide runtime emitted-output scanner. The four canonical connector contract schemas (debt / entity / valuation / funds) remainstatus: stub(schema-enforcedsource_classenum), but no connector runtime emits or enforces them and no adapter is live. The live connector runtime and runnable/vendor adapters are v6 work — see Roadmap. - The orchestrator runtime
dispatchAgent()is a documented stub. The real execution path is the orchestrate prose (src/commands/orchestrate.md) with Claude as conductor — not an autonomous engine. Treat orchestrators as structured prompts. - The AMOS manifest is a static export.
dist/amos-skill-manifest.jsonis a generated artifact with honest capability states and no live coupling; no skill is marked live-connected (AMOS references skills as data, it does not invoke them live). - The Windows
.exeis not locally buildable on macOS — it is produced on CI / Windows only (Inno Setup). The macOS DMG is locally buildable. - The
residential_multifamilysubsystem isstatus: stable_pending_shakedown(v1.0.0-rc1). Code complete; refusal-on-missing-input contracts active. Every reference file still ships as sample/starter/illustrative/placeholder — decision-grade use requires an org overlay. Final-marked workflows (executive, IC, quarterly, pipeline summary) declarefallback_behavior: refuseon required inputs — they fail closed rather than proceed with stale data — and period-grade workflows additionally refuse if the GL is not at the declaredclose_statusfloor (soft_closeorhard_close). Graduation tostatus: stableis gated on the first operator shakedown log (see PREVIEW_MODE.md); until then, output carries aStable, awaiting shakedownbanner. - Six regulatory/affordable compliance workflows (
compliance_calendar_review,income_certification_cycle,rent_limit_test,agency_reporting_prep,file_audit_prep,recertification_batch) are phase-1 scaffolding — the router recognizes them and the overlay slots exist, but no workflow pack implements them yet. The routing ruler011_regulatory_workflow_explicitis gated behind an explicitregulatory_programaxis andrent_limits/income_limitsreference files; missing references refuse the match. - The tailoring TUI (
src/skills/residential_multifamily/tailoring/tools/tailoring_tui.py) has a documented capability matrix in docs/tailoring_capability_matrix.md. Tailoring Pass 2 Obj 4 is closed: conflict surfacing, approval-floor guard, canonical-definition-redefinition refusal, preview-bundle YAML emission, and missing-doc blocker are all Implemented. Open follow-ups (legacy-bank retirement, role-based bank filtering) are tracked in the matrix. - Orchestrator pipelines are transitioning from templates to a lightweight runtime. Current
/cre-skills:orchestrateinvokes the engine for pipelines that declare a config; deal-state persistence, typed approval gates, and a calculator bridge have landed. Verdict aggregation across phases and autonomous challenge-layer resolution remain in progress. - Windows installer defends against UTF-8 BOM edge cases in PowerShell 5.1 but does not currently halt on missing Node/Python/npm prerequisites. Update Claude Code before install (older versions have MCP path issues on Windows).
- Codex / Gemini / Grok / Manus portable ZIP has structural CI coverage (
tests/install_smoke/test_portable_zip.py), but cross-runtime invocation is not tested. Treat as experimental on those surfaces.
Roadmap
Upcoming work is tracked in docs/ROADMAP.md. The remaining v5.x work is documentation / contract alignment, static-scanner refinement, manifest capability metadata, no-live invariant enforcement, the generalized runtime governance scanner, and optional non-live interface scaffolding. The real-world / live data-integration track — connector runtime enforcement of source_class / max_staleness, sandbox-runnable adapters, and vendor-specific connectors beyond status: stub — is v6. The enterprise governance track (a lifecycle-hook control plane, four-eyes approvals, deal-state memory, audit, SOC 2, RBAC, licensing, and team collaboration) is the paid cre-skills-pro edition, built separately as the open-core commercial layer on top of this free core; it is not part of this repository's release line. See Open core. Preview / staging mode for status: beta_rc and status: experimental skills is documented at docs/PREVIEW_MODE.md.
Key Stats
| Metric | Count |
|---|---|
| Skills | 127 |
| Expert Agents | 54 |
| Reference Files | 279 |
| Python Calculators | 21 |
| Workflow Chains | 6 |
| Orchestrator Pipelines | 10 |
| Slash Commands | 11 |
| Skill Categories | 18 |
What's New in v5.1.0
A governance-hardening release — correctness and truthful contracts, not new skills (0 net new). Highlights, each test-backed:
- Calculator fidelity. Monte Carlo beta-distributed variables now inherit the Gaussian-copula correlation (it was being silently dropped).
fund_fee_modelerpromote-sensitivity is labeledgrade: screening/linear_fee_drag_approximation— thebreakeven_irr_*values are a fee-drag approximation, not a DCF-IRR.transfer_tax/proration_calculator/quick_screennow refuse value-domain degeneracy (including the proration unparseable-date path that used to throw a raw traceback).debt_sizinggainsinterest_onlyalias keys. - Connector contract schemas. The four canonical contracts —
debt,entity(legal/ownership, distinct frommaster_data),valuation,funds(+ pseudonymizedinvestor_report) — are authored asstatus: stubcontracts with round-tripping samples, andsource_classis now a schema-enforced enum. No adapter is live; nothing executes. - AMOS forward-compat. The skill-manifest emits
produces_artifact_kind,pii_policy(conservative defaultnone), andworkspace_scope.live_connectorstaysfalse.
Still deferred (honest): the corpus-wide runtime governance scanner, the full 127-skill v5_contract sweep, live/runnable connector adapters, and the Windows .exe (CI/Windows-only). See Known Limitations and docs/releases/v5.1.0-release-notes.md.
What's New in v5.0.0
A governable skill taxonomy across the whole corpus. Every catalog item now carries a classification (micro | normal | orchestrator | workspace | agent | calculator) and a runtime_role, so a deal team, asset manager, or fund team can tell an atomic tool from a conductor from a business-facing surface — and, critically, which outputs are decision-grade and need a human sign-off. See How the skill taxonomy works for your team. This shipped by reclassification + honest backlog: 0 new stub skills — the value is the governable metadata and the decomposition map, not skill count.
AMOS skill-manifest export. The plugin now publishes dist/amos-skill-manifest.json (a superset of the catalog carrying the governance fields: decision_grade, human_gate, source_ref_policy, amos_surface, decomposes_to), plus a documented contract at docs/integrations/amos-skill-manifest.md. AMOS consumes the plugin as a governed skill layer as data — no skill is hardcoded, and the manifest is a static generated artifact with no live coupling.
Trust fixes (governance honesty). A canonical data-grade ladder (docs/DATA_GRADES.md) reconciles the four source-class vocabularies already deployed (RMF executive tags, the fallback resolver, the ingestion classification, the connector source_class) into one ladder, and states which grades may back a final-marked output and which must refuse. A targeted finance-placeholder guard (tests/test_finance_placeholder_guard.py) enforces, on a named decision-grade allowlist (acquisition-underwriting-engine, ic-memo-generator, comp-snapshot, fund-lp-reporting, jv-waterfall-architect, opportunity-zone-underwriter, cost-segregation-analyzer), that those skills declare a ## Refusal Behavior discipline and forbid unresolved $X/placeholder tokens in a final output. Valuation/comp skills (comp-snapshot, om-reverse-pricing, acquisition-underwriting-engine) carry an explicit "estimate, not an appraisal" stamp.
Honest scope (read this). This release is a micro-skill architecture delivered as 0 new stubs; reclassify + backlog — not a wave of new atomic skills. The decision-grade governance (source-class tagging, refusal-on-missing-input, period-seal, the placeholder scanner) runs as deployed runtime enforcement only inside residential_multifamily; across the rest of the corpus v5.0.0 ships the final_marked selector plus the named-allowlist finance guard. A fully-generalized, corpus-wide runtime data scanner remains deferred (v5.2.0 later shipped a corpus-wide static declaration scanner; the runtime scanner is still future work). The four canonical connector contract schemas (debt / entity / valuation / funds) landed in v5.1.0 as status: stub; the live connector runtime is a v6 item. See Known Limitations and docs/connectors/CAPABILITY-MATRIX.md — no connector is live today.
See CHANGELOG.md and docs/MIGRATION.md for the full v4.5.0 → v5.0.0 entry.
What's New in v4.3.0
Residential multifamily graduates to stable_pending_shakedown: the subsystem moves from status: beta_rc (v0.6.0) to status: stable_pending_shakedown (v1.0.0-rc1). Tailoring Pass 2 Objective 4 closes — approval-floor guard, canonical-redefinition refusal, preview-bundle YAML emission, and missing-doc blocker are all active (previously listed as Not implemented). Code-complete; awaiting the first operator shakedown log before graduation to status: stable. See docs/PREVIEW_MODE.md for the contract.
Portable ZIP structural smoke: tests/install_smoke/test_portable_zip.py and the Portable ZIP Smoke workflow validate ZIP layout, skills-tree mirroring, frontmatter contract, and runtime-file exclusion. Cross-runtime invocation remains an explicit gap.
Canonical Desktop marketplace caveat: the "Chat tab's 'Add marketplace' is not supported" guidance is now pinned verbatim across README.md, docs/INSTALL.md, docs/install-guide.md, docs/install-desktop.md, docs/install-cowork.md, with a parity assertion in tests/test_release_version_parity.py. docs/WHAT-TO-USE-WHEN.md is the source of truth.
Preview-mode gate is live repo-wide: tests/test_preview_mode_gate.py walks every SKILL.md under src/skills/ and enforces the Release maturity section + banner for each preview sub-status (experimental, beta_rc, stable_pending_shakedown). The residential_multifamily subsystem has its own stricter counterpart under the subsystem tests.
See CHANGELOG.md for the full v4.3.0 entry.
What's Landed in v4.2.0
Hardening pass 2 close: residential_multifamily subsystem moves from status: draft (v0.5.0) to status: beta_rc (v0.6.0). Three deferred objectives close: sealed-close gating (Obj 5) pins period-grade workflows behind a declared close_status floor; a finance-critical placeholder scanner (Obj 6) rejects un-labeled TBD/PLACEHOLDER rows in every CSV read by a final-marked workflow; an executive output contract (Obj 8) requires verdict-first structure + source-class labels on every numeric cell. +13 tests (total 436). See CHANGELOG.md for the full v4.2.0 entry.
Catalog-driven architecture: Single source of truth (src/catalog/catalog.yaml). Every public surface -- README stats, plugin.json, hooks prompt, routing table, registry -- is generated from the catalog. CI catches drift.
MCP server: Zero-dependency MCP server (src/mcp-server.mjs) for Claude Desktop support. macOS DMG and Windows .exe installers auto-detect Claude Code and Claude Desktop.
Workspace skills: deal-intake, lease-strategy-papering, asset-ops-cockpit, capital-projects-development, fund-lp-reporting, navigator, plugin-admin. Persistent workspace state for cross-session continuity.
Feedback system: /cre-skills:send-feedback and /cre-skills:report-problem with automatic redaction, optional remote submission (ask_each_time mode), and retry outbox for failed sends.
Current counts live in Key Stats above; it is regenerated from the catalog by CI. See CHANGELOG.md for full history.
Installation
This repo is a self-contained Claude marketplace. Choose the install method that fits your setup.
See docs/WHAT-TO-USE-WHEN.md for a detailed comparison of all install surfaces.
Do not paste this repo URL into Claude Desktop Chat tab's "Add marketplace" dialog. Chat tab's "Add marketplace" is a separate surface and is not supported by this repo — pasting
https://github.com/mariourquia/cre-skills-pluginthere will produce a validation error. The canonical Chat tab install path is the DMG (macOS) or EXE (Windows) installer, which registers a local MCP server viaclaude_desktop_config.json. The Claude Code CLI marketplace (claude plugin marketplace add mariourquia/cre-skills-pluginfollowed byclaude plugin install cre-skills@cre-skills) is supported and is the canonical CLI install path; it also works in the Desktop Code tab (which uses Claude Code under the hood).
| Method | Best for | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplace install | Claude Code users (CLI or Desktop Code tab) | Full: skills, agents, commands, hooks, MCP tools |
| macOS DMG | Non-technical macOS users | Full plugin + Claude Desktop MCP registration |
| Windows EXE | Non-technical Windows users | Full plugin + Claude Desktop MCP registration |
| Cowork upload | Cowork tab users | Skills, agents, commands (no hooks/orchestrators) |
| Manual config | Chat tab only (MCP tools) | MCP tools via claude_desktop_config.json |
Marketplace Install (recommended)
From Claude Code CLI or the Desktop Code tab:
claude plugin marketplace add mariourquia/cre-skills-plugin
claude plugin install cre-skills@cre-skills
Or interactively: type /plugin in Claude Code, select Add plugin, and search for cre-skills.
This gives you the full set of skills, agents, commands, hooks, and MCP tools.
Installer (macOS DMG / Windows EXE)
Download from the latest GitHub release:
- macOS: Download the
.dmg, open it, double-click CRE Skills Installer - Windows: Download the
.exe, run the wizard (SmartScreen: click "More info" > "Run anyway")
The installer auto-detects Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or both and configures each. No admin privileges required. Restart Claude Desktop after installation.
Cowork Tab
In the Claude Desktop Cowork tab, click Customize > Browse plugins to find CRE Skills, or upload the plugin ZIP from the release page. Skills, agents, and commands work in Cowork. Hooks and orchestrators are Code-tab only.
CLI Alternatives
# Install script (downloads and registers automatically)
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mariourquia/cre-skills-plugin/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
# Local development
git clone https://github.com/mariourquia/cre-skills-plugin.git
claude --plugin-dir ./cre-skills-plugin
What to Expect After Installation
Claude Desktop has three tabs. Each provides different capabilities:
| Code Tab | Chat Tab | Cowork Tab | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Install method | Marketplace or installer | Installer (MCP config) | Cowork plugin import |
| Skills | Yes, via /cre-skills:* |
No (MCP tools instead) | Yes, via / commands |
| Agents | Yes, auto-invoked | No | Yes, as sub-agents |
| Skill routing | /cre-skills:cre-route |
cre_route MCP tool |
Manual |
| Orchestrators | /cre-skills:orchestrate |
Not available | Not available |
| Workspace | Yes | Yes (MCP tools) | No |
| Hooks | Yes (session start/stop) | No | No |
| Customization | Yes | Yes (MCP tools) | No |
Code tab gives the full experience. Chat tab gives MCP tools. Cowork tab gives skills and agents without hooks or orchestrators.
Verify Installation
After restarting, try:
/cre-skills:cre-route screen this deal
Or ask Claude: "What CRE skills do you have?"
For a structural check: bash scripts/verify-install.sh
Install and verify also ensure CLAUDE_CODE_STOP_HOOK_BLOCK_CAP is at least 100 in ~/.claude/settings.json (raise-only -- a higher value you already set is left untouched), so the plugin's long agent loops are not truncated by the Stop-hook default of 9.
Troubleshooting
Skills don't appear (Code tab):
- Start a new conversation (SessionStart hook fires at start)
- Run
/pluginto verify the plugin is enabled - If not listed:
claude plugin marketplace add mariourquia/cre-skills-plugin
MCP tools don't appear (Chat tab):
- Restart Claude Desktop completely
- Check Settings > Developer > MCP Servers for
cre-skills - Verify Node.js 18+ is installed (
node --version) - Re-run the installer if the MCP entry is missing
Cowork tab:
- Click Customize > Browse plugins to check if CRE Skills is installed
- If not listed, upload the plugin ZIP from the release page
Windows known issues
Update Claude Code first. Older versions of Claude Code on Windows have a bug where colons in MCP log directory paths cause plugin MCP servers to fail silently (anthropics/claude-code#13679). Update to the latest version before installing:
npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code@latest
# or: irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex
Cowork marketplace empty on Windows. The Cowork plugin marketplace may not load
because plugins.claude.ai does not resolve via DNS on some Windows configurations.
This is an Anthropic infrastructure issue
(anthropics/claude-code#28853).
The plugin still works in the Code tab and CLI.
Plugin installed but not showing. If the installer completed but skills don't
appear, verify the plugin is enabled in ~/.claude/settings.json:
{
"enabledPlugins": {
"cre-skills@local": true
}
}
The installer writes this automatically, but some Claude Code versions have a bug where
enabledPlugins is not populated
(anthropics/claude-code#20661).
See docs/INSTALL.md for detailed per-platform instructions.
Quick Start
Screen a deal in seconds:
/cre-skills:cre-route screen this deal -- 240-unit garden-style multifamily,
Raleigh NC, $42M asking, 2018 vintage, 93% occupied, $2.6M NOI, rents 12% below market
Underwrite with full depth:
/cre-skills:cre-route underwrite this deal
Review loan documents:
/cre-skills:cre-route review these loan docs
See all workflow chains:
/cre-skills:cre-workflows
Browse expert agents:
/cre-skills:cre-agents
Run an orchestrated pipeline:
/cre-skills:orchestrate acquisition
Set up brand guidelines (once):
/cre-skills:brand-config
Skill Categories
By Category
| # | Category | Count | Key Skills |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Deal Screening | 2 | deal-quick-screen, om-reverse-pricing |
| 02 | Underwriting & Analysis | 4 | acquisition-underwriting-engine, rent-roll-analyzer, sensitivity-stress-test, monte-carlo-return-simulator |
| 03 | Deal Structuring | 6 | loi-offer-builder, psa-redline-strategy, jv-waterfall-architect, 1031-exchange-executor, creative-seller-financing, 1031-pipeline-manager |
| 04 | Due Diligence | 4 | dd-command-center, distressed-acquisition-playbook, title-commitment-reviewer, tenant-credit-analyzer |
| 05 | Capital Markets | 7 | loan-sizing-engine, capital-stack-optimizer, refi-decision-analyzer, mezz-pref-structurer, debt-portfolio-monitor, workout-playbook, term-sheet-builder |
| 06 | Market Research | 4 | submarket-truth-serum, comp-snapshot, supply-demand-forecast, market-cycle-positioner |
| 07 | Asset Management | 7 | annual-budget-engine, property-performance-dashboard, capex-prioritizer, noi-sprint-plan, lease-compliance-auditor, tenant-delinquency-workout, small-operator-pm |
| 08 | Leasing | 9 | tenant-retention-engine, lease-up-war-room, lease-negotiation-analyzer, rent-optimization-planner, leasing-operations-engine, leasing-strategy-marketing-planner, lease-document-factory, lease-option-structurer, lease-trade-out-analyzer |
| 09 | Investor Relations | 11 | ic-memo-generator, quarterly-investor-update, lp-pitch-deck-builder, capital-raise-machine, fund-formation-toolkit, fund-operations-compliance-dashboard, investor-lifecycle-manager, sec-reg-d-compliance, distribution-notice-generator, emerging-manager-evaluator, fund-raise-negotiation-engine |
| 10 | Development | 7 | dev-proforma-engine, land-residual-hbu-analyzer, entitlement-feasibility, construction-budget-gc-analyzer, construction-project-command-center, construction-procurement-contracts-engine, post-close-onboarding-transition |
| 11 | Disposition | 2 | disposition-strategy-engine, disposition-prep-kit |
| 12 | Deal Sourcing | 1 | sourcing-outreach-system |
| 13 | Tax & Entity | 3 | cost-segregation-analyzer, opportunity-zone-underwriter, partnership-allocation-engine |
| 14 | ESG & Climate | 2 | carbon-audit-compliance, climate-risk-assessment |
| 15 | Portfolio Strategy | 3 | portfolio-allocator, performance-attribution, deal-attribution-tracker |
| 16 | Daily Operations | 27 | t12-normalizer, rent-roll-formatter, cam-reconciliation-calculator, debt-covenant-monitor, lease-abstract-extractor, estoppel-certificate-generator, cpi-escalation-calculator, variance-narrative-generator, closing-checklist-tracker, vendor-invoice-validator, property-tax-appeal-analyzer, coi-compliance-checker, work-order-triage, lender-compliance-certificate, stacking-plan-builder, building-systems-maintenance-manager, insurance-risk-manager, compliance-regulatory-response-kit, crisis-special-situations-playbook, property-operations-admin-toolkit, tenant-event-planner, loan-document-reviewer, transfer-document-preparer, funds-flow-calculator, gp-performance-evaluator, fund-terms-comparator, lp-data-request-generator |
Workflow Chains
Six end-to-end workflow chains that orchestrate multiple skills in sequence.
| # | Chain | Steps |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Acquisition Pipeline | sourcing -> quick-screen -> om-reverse -> rent-roll-analyzer -> underwriting-engine -> sensitivity -> ic-memo -> loi -> psa-redline -> dd-command-center -> close |
| 2 | Capital Stack Assembly | underwriting-engine -> loan-sizing -> mezz-pref -> jv-waterfall -> capital-stack-optimizer -> refi-decision |
| 3 | Hold Period Management | annual-budget -> performance-dashboard -> capex / lease-compliance / delinquency-workout / retention-engine -> noi-sprint |
| 4 | Disposition Pipeline | performance-dashboard -> disposition-strategy -> [SELL] disposition-prep -> 1031-exchange | [HOLD] refi-decision | [REFI] loan-sizing |
| 5 | Development Pipeline | land-residual + entitlement -> dev-proforma -> construction-budget -> loan-sizing -> capital-stack -> ic-memo -> lease-up-war-room -> refi-decision |
| 6 | Fund Management | fund-formation -> pitch-deck -> capital-raise -> portfolio-allocator -> [deploy via acquisition pipeline] -> quarterly-update + performance-attribution |
Each chain has a detailed workflow document in src/routing/workflows/ with step-by-step orchestration logic.
Orchestration Engine
The plugin includes a multi-agent orchestration engine (derived from Avi Hacker's CRE Acquisition Orchestrator) that coordinates skills into automated pipelines.
Available Orchestrators
| Orchestrator | Purpose | Phases | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| acquisition | Full acquisition lifecycle | DD -> UW -> Financing -> Legal -> Closing -> Challenge | GO / CONDITIONAL / NO-GO |
| capital-stack | Optimal debt/equity structuring | Qualification -> Sizing -> Structuring -> Optimization -> IC | PROCEED / RESTRUCTURE / KILL |
| hold-period | Asset management (recurring loop) | Onboarding -> Monitoring (loop) -> Leasing -> Capital -> Tenant -> Reposition | CONTINUE / INTERVENE / EXIT |
| disposition | Asset sale pipeline | Hold/Sell -> Pricing -> Marketing -> Buyers -> Offers -> DD Mgmt -> Close | SELL / HOLD / REFI |
| development | Ground-up development | Land -> Entitlement -> Proforma -> Construction -> Lease-Up -> Stabilization | BUILD / KILL / DEFER |
| fund-management | Full fund lifecycle | Formation -> Raise -> Deploy -> Monitor -> Distribute -> Exit | DEPLOY / HOLD / WIND-DOWN |
| research | Market intelligence | Macro -> Submarket -> Competitive -> Opportunity -> Memo | INVEST / MONITOR / PASS |
| strategy | Investment strategy formulation | Capital -> Cycle -> Strategy -> Portfolio -> Memo | DEPLOY / REVISE / HOLD |
| portfolio | Portfolio-level oversight | Composition -> Concentration -> Attribution -> Rebalance -> Stress -> Report | REBALANCE / HOLD / DIVEST |
| lp-intelligence | LP evaluation of GPs | GP Eval -> Data Request -> Performance -> Portfolio -> Re-Up | RE-UP / REDUCE / EXIT |
Run with: /cre-skills:orchestrate acquisition
See src/orchestrators/README.md for full documentation.
Expert Agents
Expert agents across multiple categories, each with a distinct analytical perspective.
| Category | Count | Agents |
|---|---|---|
| Institutional Buyers | 5 | Pension Fund, Private Equity, Public REIT, Family Office, Syndicator |
| Analytical Lenses | 5 | Quantitative, Qualitative, Contrarian, Risk Manager, ESG/Impact |
| Investment Functions | 8 | Acquisitions Analyst, Asset Manager, Property Manager, Capital Markets, IR Director, Development Manager, Leasing Director, Disposition Strategist |
| Challenge Agents | 6 | Conservative Lender, Aggressive GP, Skeptical LP, IC Challenger, Value-Add Operator, Distressed Specialist |
| Titan Styles | 6 | Zell, Linneman, Sternlicht, Ross, Gray, Barrack |
| Stakeholder Views | 8 | Tenant, Lender, Municipality, Insurance, Appraiser, Environmental, Construction, Legal |
| Research & Strategy | 4 | Market Research Analyst, Submarket Specialist, Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Strategist |
| Asset Management | 2 | Asset Manager Lead, Leasing Manager |
| Portfolio | 2 | Portfolio Manager, Risk Officer |
| Fund Management | 2 | Fund Controller, Investor Relations Associate |
| Disposition | 1 | Disposition Manager |
| LP Intelligence | 3 | LP Advisor, Fund Analyst, Allocation Committee Member |
| Composite | 2 | CRE Veteran (generalist router), Deal Team Lead (multi-agent orchestrator) |
The Deal Team Lead agent assembles multi-agent teams from 10 pre-built compositions: Acquisition IC, Capital Stack Optimization, Disposition Strategy, Development Feasibility, Lease Negotiation, Fund Formation, Market Cycle Assessment, Crisis Response, Portfolio Review, and LP Due Diligence.
Python Calculators
21 standalone Python scripts (zero external dependencies) that agents can execute for precise quantitative output. The table below lists the most-used; the full set is in src/calculators/.
| Script | Skill | Calculations |
|---|---|---|
quick_screen.py |
deal-quick-screen | Cap rate, DSCR, CoC, replacement ratio, 3-scenario IRR |
debt_sizing.py |
loan-sizing-engine | DSCR/LTV/debt yield constraint optimization |
covenant_tester.py |
loan-document-reviewer | DSCR/LTV/debt yield by year, breach detection |
npv_trade_out.py |
lease-trade-out-analyzer | NPV comparison, breakeven, 2D sensitivity grid |
option_valuation.py |
lease-option-structurer | Termination fees, cap rate impact, package NPV |
waterfall_calculator.py |
jv-waterfall-architect | GP/LP distributions, multi-tier promote, IRR |
tenant_credit_scorer.py |
tenant-credit-analyzer | HHI, WALT, expected annual loss, OCR |
proration_calculator.py |
funds-flow-calculator | Per diem prorations (actual/365, 30/360) |
transfer_tax.py |
transfer-document-preparer | All 50 states + DC with tiered rates |
monte_carlo_simulator.py |
monte-carlo-return-simulator | Stochastic return distributions, confidence intervals, tail risk |
fund_fee_modeler.py |
fund-raise-negotiation-engine | Management fee modeling, carried interest schedules, blended fee load, MFN cascade |
All calculators are in src/calculators/. Run directly with python3 src/calculators/<script>.py.
Brand Guidelines
Skills that produce investor-facing deliverables (pitch decks, IC memos, investor updates, offering packages, leasing marketing materials) automatically load your brand guidelines from ~/.cre-skills/brand-guidelines.json.
Run /cre-skills:brand-config to set up your brand colors, fonts, disclaimers, and contact info once. All future deliverables will use your brand automatically.
What Gets Saved
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Company/fund name | Appears in all headers and footers |
| Primary, secondary, accent colors | Applied to formatting instructions |
| Heading and body fonts | Referenced in all layout directives |
| Layout style | minimal, corporate, boutique, or institutional |
| Number format | full ($1,234,567), abbreviated ($1.2M), or both |
| Units preference | psf, per_unit, or auto |
| Disclaimer text | Appended to every page/section |
| Confidentiality notice | Applied to cover pages |
| Contact information block | Placed on final page of deliverables |
| Logo file path | Referenced (not embedded) |
Skills That Auto-Load Brand Guidelines
| Skill | Deliverable Type |
|---|---|
lp-pitch-deck-builder |
LP pitch decks (16-slide) |
ic-memo-generator |
Investment committee memos |
quarterly-investor-update |
Quarterly LP letters and reports |
capital-raise-machine |
LP packs, capital call notices, onboarding materials |
fund-formation-toolkit |
PPM drafting guidance, fund term materials |
disposition-prep-kit |
Offering packages, buyer marketing materials |
investor-lifecycle-manager |
LP meeting prep, benchmark reports, GIPS composites |
leasing-strategy-marketing-planner |
Leasing flyers, brochures, marketing plans |
First-Use Behavior
On first invocation of any deliverable skill, if no brand guidelines file exists, the skill will prompt:
"I don't have your brand guidelines saved yet. Would you like to set them up now with
/cre-skills:brand-config? Or I can proceed with professional defaults."
Professional defaults: navy #1B365D, white #FFFFFF, gold accent #C9A84C, Helvetica Neue/Arial fonts, standard CRE disclaimer language.
Feedback
Share feedback or report problems without leaving your session:
/cre-skills:send-feedback-- share feedback about skill quality, missing capabilities, or general suggestions/cre-skills:report-problem-- report a bug with structured severity, reproduction context, and skill identification
Feedback is saved locally to ~/.cre-skills/feedback-log.jsonl. Free-text fields are automatically sanitized (file paths, emails, digit sequences stripped). No deal data, prompts, or financial figures are ever stored. After submitting, you're asked if you'd also like to send it to the maintainer (you approve each send). To disable: set feedback.mode to local_only in ~/.cre-skills/config.json.
View your feedback history with /cre-skills:feedback-summary.
Skill Customization
Adapt any skill to how your team actually works. Local overrides take priority over base skills -- the base files are never modified.
/cre-skills:customize-skill
The plugin walks you through: select a skill, make changes, record why. Common customizations:
| Category | Example |
|---|---|
| Terminology | Rename fields to match your organization |
| Approval chain | Add compliance officer review steps |
| Required steps | Insert ESG screening into underwriting |
| Deliverable format | Restructure IC memo for your committee |
| Calculation method | Use MOIC instead of IRR as primary metric |
| Regional / market | Add NYC transfer tax tiers |
Customizations are stored at ~/.cre-skills/customizations/<slug>/ and persist across plugin updates. You can optionally share structured feedback about your changes with the maintainer to help improve the plugin.
Privacy: Default mode is metadata_only -- only skill name, change categories, and rationale are shared. No skill content leaves your machine without explicit consent. Set customization.feedback_mode to off in ~/.cre-skills/config.json to disable entirely.
See docs/customization-guide.md for full details, configuration examples, and MCP tool reference.
Privacy & Telemetry
Anonymous usage telemetry is enabled by default and local-only. It records which skills you use (slug only) and the date -- nothing else. No deal data, financial figures, file paths, prompts, or identity information is ever tracked. All data stays on your machine in ~/.cre-skills/telemetry.jsonl. To opt out: set "telemetry": false in ~/.cre-skills/config.json.
/cre-skills:usage-stats-- view your aggregated skill usage patterns/cre-skills:feedback-summary-- view your session ratings and comments/cre-skills:send-feedback-- share structured feedback (saved locally)/cre-skills:report-problem-- report bugs (saved locally)
See PRIVACY.md for what is and is not collected.
Project Structure
cre-skills-plugin/
src/
plugin/
plugin.json # Plugin manifest
skills/
<slug>/
SKILL.md # Skill definition (process, inputs, outputs)
references/ # Supporting reference documents (.md and .yaml)
agents/
_index.md # Agent roster and team compositions
<agent>.md # expert agent definitions (flat directory)
orchestrators/
engine/ # Pipeline engine schema and handoff registry
configs/ # orchestrator JSON configurations
prompts/ # orchestrator prompt files
challenge-layer/ # Post-pipeline adversarial review config
investor-profiles/ # 8 investor profiles + strategy matrix
schemas/ # Disagreement and reversal trigger schemas
thresholds.json # Investment thresholds (base + investor overrides)
README.md # Orchestration engine documentation
commands/
cre-route.md # Skill router command
cre-workflows.md # Workflow chain browser
cre-agents.md # Agent roster browser
brand-config.md # Brand guidelines setup
customize-skill.md # Skill customization workflow
orchestrate.md # Multi-agent pipeline orchestrator
usage-stats.md # Telemetry summary
feedback-summary.md # Session feedback log
send-feedback.md # Share feedback
report-problem.md # Report a bug
lib/
customization.mjs # Skill override CRUD and resolution
diff.mjs # LCS-based line diff engine
feedback-payload.mjs # Customization feedback payload builder
routing/
CRE-ROUTING.md # Master routing index
workflows/ # Detailed workflow chain documents
hooks/
hooks.json # Hook definitions (SessionStart, PostToolUse, Stop)
telemetry-init.mjs # Initializes user config on first run
telemetry-capture.mjs # Tracks skill invocations (opt-in)
session-summary.mjs # Session end record and feedback
calculators/ # 12 Python calculator scripts
catalog/ # Catalog schema and canonical catalog.yaml
mcp-server.mjs # MCP server for Claude Desktop
templates/
output-styles/ # Output format templates
scripts/
redact-feedback.mjs # Feedback sanitization utility
install.sh # Fresh install with v1->v2 migration
update.sh # Pull latest, detect breaking changes
uninstall.sh # Clean removal with data preservation
verify-install.sh # 8-check health report
ensure_stop_hook_cap.py # Raise CLAUDE_CODE_STOP_HOOK_BLOCK_CAP to >=100 (raise-only)
registry.yaml # Skill registry with metadata and chain mappings
tests/ # pytest suite: structural integrity, catalog parity,
# release hygiene, docs/surface/version parity, MCP server,
# orchestrator engine (deal state, gates, calculator bridge),
# installer hardening, and end-to-end calculator exec
Attribution
This release integrates orchestration patterns derived from the CRE Acquisition Orchestrator by Avi Hacker (The AI Consulting Network), licensed under Apache 2.0. See NOTICE for full attribution.
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on adding new skills, agents, and calculators.
License
See NOTICE for attribution and patent grant details.
Author
Mario Urquia -- mariourquia.com
Quant, Data, and Startup Product Builder. Building proof-of-concepts for commercial real estate investment management across equity, debt, and infrastructure.