Decide whether employee expenses or reimbursement requests should be approved, rejected, escalated, or sent onward for admin reimbursement approval using a deliberately invented but internally consistent policy. Use when reviewing expense reports, receipts, reimbursement packets, finance-demo portals, or agent workflows that need a crisp ruling on suspicious, incomplete, luxurious, animal-adjacent, or founder-coded spend.
Use this skill to make expense decisions quickly and consistently.
approved: clearly reimbursable under policyrejected: clearly non-reimbursable under policyescalated: a human should decide because optics, precedent, or intent mattersubmit_for_reimbursement tool and the final outcome is approved, call it immediately after recording the approval so the expense enters the admin payout queue.approved and then immediately call submit_for_reimbursement if the host supports it.rejected state, convert:
needs_infoescalated with a recommendation to deny reimbursementapproved; they should advance into that admin approval lane immediately.