Bundled skills
The eleven skills that ship with Excelente, what each one covers, and how they are licensed.
Excelente bundles fourteen skills. Eleven appear in the Skills panel for you to turn on. Three are core skills the agent reaches on its own.
The eleven#
| Skill | What it covers |
|---|---|
acquisition-model |
Stabilized pro forma, direct-cap value, and a dynamic ten-year DCF |
comp-analysis |
Rent comps on effective rent, sales comps, and expense benchmarks |
development-pro-forma |
Ground-up budget, draw schedule, yield-on-cost, spread, and residual land value |
excel-native-method |
How analytical work gets done inside a live workbook: data flow, tool choice, formula authoring, build order, verification |
formula-audit |
Trace and explain the formulas in a sheet so you can follow how numbers flow |
loan-sizing |
Size permanent debt on LTV, DSCR, and debt yield, and test covenants |
quick-underwrite |
Classify the deal, underwrite it on the right basis, pursue or pass |
rent-roll-standardizer |
Rent rolls from PM exports or leases, into unit mix, occupancy, and loss-to-lease |
revenue-tie-out |
Prove the rent roll explains T-12 revenue, and classify every gap |
sensitivity-analysis |
Tornado charts, sensitivity grids, scenarios, and breakevens run through the deal's own model |
t12-analyzer |
Map a T-12 to a chart of accounts, annualize, audit, normalize |
excel-native-method is the method layer under the CRE skills. It covers how work happens in a live
workbook rather than any particular analysis, and it is worth leaving on whatever else you are doing.
The three core skills#
Hidden from every menu, loaded by the agent itself.
| Skill | Role |
|---|---|
cre-modeling-conventions |
A.CRE house modeling conventions. Injected in full into every system prompt |
office-js-patterns |
Patterns and footguns for run_excel_script, including when not to script |
verify-model-outputs |
The Reviewer's playbook: audit-cell checks, error-value scans, convention compliance, structural integrity |
Suggested combinations#
Skills compose. A few that work well together:
| Job | Turn on |
|---|---|
| Underwrite a multifamily acquisition from raw files | rent-roll-standardizer, t12-analyzer, revenue-tie-out, acquisition-model |
| Stress an existing model | sensitivity-analysis, formula-audit |
| Size debt on a completed pro forma | loan-sizing |
| Ground-up development | development-pro-forma, sensitivity-analysis |
| Decide whether a deal is worth real time | quick-underwrite, comp-analysis |
Turning on everything at once is not free. Each enabled skill adds its summary to every turn, and a long list makes the agent's choice harder. Enable what the job needs.
Licensing#
Excelente is Apache 2.0, and the bundled skills are licensed separately. This matters if you fork the project.
Nine of the eleven incorporate commercial real estate methodology from CRE Agents, Inc., used with their written permission:
acquisition-model, comp-analysis, development-pro-forma, loan-sizing, quick-underwrite,
rent-roll-standardizer, revenue-tie-out, sensitivity-analysis, t12-analyzer
That content is proprietary to CRE Agents, Inc. The permission covers your use of the add-in and does
not extend to redistribution. Each carries author: "A.CRE (method: CRE Agents / Vic)" in its
frontmatter and closes with the permission line.
Those nine are not in the public repository. If you clone
excelente-add-in you get five skills, all
wholly ours and licensed CC BY 4.0: cre-modeling-conventions, excel-native-method,
formula-audit, office-js-patterns, and verify-model-outputs. Three of those are core skills, so
a fork's Skills panel shows two rows rather than eleven until you add your own.
This is the one place the hosted add-in and a fork genuinely differ in what they can do out of the box. Everything else on this site applies to both.
Provenance for all fourteen is in apps/excel-addin/src/edition/acre/skills/THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md; the public
repo's skills/LICENSE.md covers the five it ships. The scope of the Apache licence is in the
repository's NOTICE.
Reading one before you use it#
Capabilities → Skills → Show on any row expands its details and a file tree. Click
SKILL.md to read the playbook itself.
Do this once for any skill you are about to point at real work. A skill is a prompt, and reading it tells you precisely what convention the agent is about to apply to your model.