Why a custom skill beats a one-off prompt for household bills
Tracking your household bills once is fine, but the value is in the repeat: month after month, the skill knows what your typical summer electricity bill looks like, what your standard arnona rate is, and what you usually pay for internet after a promo runs out. A one-off prompt asks you everything every time. A skill remembers.
What makes this skill specifically yours
- Your specific home: apartment size, household size, geographic area. All of those shape what "normal" looks like for you, and they differ for your neighbor.
- Your providers: which electricity company (IEC or a private one), which internet ISP (Bezeq / HOT / Cellcom / Pelephone), arnona by city.
- Your tolerance for anomalies: spell out in the description what a "worth checking" deviation looks like vs. a "call the company now" one. Highly personal.
Three things to include in your description
- The data format: a Google Sheet with 4 columns (month, electricity, water, arnona, internet) or another table you maintain.
- The contextual comparisons: which months typically spike (August for AC, January for heating), which are mild (spring).
- The cadence: as soon as a bill arrives, or once a month at month-end?
What this skill is NOT
This is not a household budgeting tool. It is not MoneyForce or Riseup. It does not look at all your transactions, and it does not give general financial advice. It checks whether the 32% electricity jump this month is an error, against your context.
Drop our catalog a look first
If you want a generic accounting skill maintained for everyone, check the agentskills.co.il/en/categories/accounting catalog. The generator is for the parts that are uniquely yours.