A powerful wrapper for the hledger CLI that brings plain-text accounting and financial reporting to your AI agent workflows.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install hledger
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install hledger using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is hledger Skill?
The hledger skill for Openclaw Skills enables AI agents to interact directly with the hledger command-line tool. By bridging the gap between conversational AI and plain-text accounting, this skill allows users to query their financial data, generate reports, and manage journals using natural language commands or automated triggers. It is designed to be a lightweight but secure interface for the robust hledger ecosystem, ensuring that your financial data remains local while being accessible via intelligent agents.
This integration allows Openclaw Skills to handle complex financial queries without manual CLI entry, making it an essential tool for developers and power users who track their finances using the double-entry accounting method. Whether you are checking a balance or inspecting a specific register, this skill provides a direct pipe to your ledger data.
hledger Skill Use Cases
- Personal finance automation and tracking via conversational interfaces.
- Quickly querying account balances or register entries through an AI agent.
- Integrating financial reporting into Telegram or WhatsApp bots powered by Openclaw Skills.
- Building automated financial reporting pipelines and data extraction workflows.
How hledger Skill Works
- The AI agent receives a financial query or command from the user interface.
- The skill validates the input to ensure it corresponds to an authorized hledger subcommand.
- The command is executed against the local hledger binary installed on the host system.
- The skill captures the stdout and stderr output generated by the CLI.
- The results are formatted and returned to the Openclaw Skills framework for presentation to the user.
hledger Skill Setup
To use this skill, ensure that hledger is installed on your host system and available in your PATH. You can verify the installation with the following command:
hledger --version
Ensure that the user running the Openclaw Skills agent has read access to the relevant journal files. No additional Python dependencies are required as the skill communicates directly with the system binary.
hledger Skill Data Schema & Taxonomy
The hledger skill operates on standard plain-text accounting files and returns structured CLI output. The following table describes the data interaction:
| Component | Description |
|---|---|
| Journal File | The primary source file (e.g., .hledger or .journal) containing financial transactions. |
| Subcommands | Valid hledger actions such as balance, register, print, or stats. |
| CLI Output | The raw string output from stdout, containing calculated totals or transaction lists. |
| Errors | Any stderr output is captured to help debug malformed journal entries. |
hledger Skill Advanced Features
- Support for custom journal file selection using the -f flag within commands.
- Secure execution environment that restricts commands strictly to the hledger namespace.
- Ability to combine with other Openclaw Skills to create comprehensive automated bookkeeping agents.
- Real-time financial auditing and reporting via agent-triggered events.
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