Retirement Budget Workbook
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Dry-run test passed · Jun 12, 2026
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Editorially graded · Jun 14, 2026
Creates a personalized retirement budgeting Excel workbook (XLSX) containing assumptions, income, expenses, summary, and recommendations sheets, plus an automatically generated PDF summary. Use when you need a dynamic retirement budgeting model in Excel that incorporates your retirement income projections, expense categories, and key assumptions (e.g., inflation, investment return, longevity, withdrawal rate) and automatically updates calculations as your data change.
An installable SKILL.md file for your AI assistant. Produces an Excel workbook (.xlsx) and a PDF.
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- Upload the .zip in Customize → Skills
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- Via a Project — paste into its instructions
See it in action
A real input → output sample
Income: Social Security $1,800 + pension $1,200/month. Expenses: housing $1,500, healthcare $400, food $600. Assume 3% inflation, 5% returns. USD.

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Retirement_Budget.xlsx with five linked sheets — Assumptions (your 3%/5% in editable blue cells), Income, Expenses, Summary with surplus/shortfall projection, Recommendations — plus a PDF summary. Items you didn't supply (planning horizon, savings balance) use clearly marked defaults on the Assumptions sheet.
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