Interesting topic. I think I raised something similar in the Discussions in the Beancount repo. I haven't done much for real but was happy to experiment and see what is possible. Admittedly, I don't see much need but I'm trying to use AI agents for what we used to try to solve by coding. Downloading statements, parsing them, even generating entries, now seems easier and more adaptable to changes. I've used Gemini CLI mainly and it was doing the job. Now I'm looking at some agentic AI frameworks. Anyway, in summary, I got the model to find the ebanking url of the given bank, open the page, wait for me to log in, then locate the credit card account and how to download the latest statement. It then downloads the PDF and compares the transactions to the ones in Beancount journal. Beancount and Playwright MCPs were enough for this. Locally, I'd like to try with something fast, like phi4-mini or gemma3n as, apparently, using agents (smaller tasks and focus) achieves greater accuracy than using one model to do everything. Would be interested in learning more stories. Soon we might just be sharing prompts instead of building plugins and importers.
Cheers On Friday, 25 July 2025 at 5:12:18 pm UTC+2 Joshua Cabrera wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone care to share any tinkering they've done with AI tools > recently? > > I found Tammo's post sharing a project for a bean-query MCP server > <https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/VC91-6yLBE4/m/ihCVGU6BBwAJ> > which is quite interesting. > > I've been using Beancount for just over a year, but as a layman, I've > struggled to automate my workflow. > > I was thinking of installing a local model to explore benefits, which is > how I found Tammo's post. > > Also, would anyone share thoughts on how well or poorly this might go? > > - share my existing ledger for inference, > - share an account statement as the raw transaction input I wish to > record, and > - prompt the model to output the proposed Beancount transactions that > I can review and then save to my ledger. > > It seems like this would work well by iterating on the prompt, but I would > appreciate any feedback before I potentially lose precious weekend hours on > this idea. > > Cheers, > Josh > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/c1ea6a02-b1f8-48d3-8534-37896b58024bn%40googlegroups.com.
