Personal Finance Beancount
What this skill does
Professional personal finance advisor specializing in plain-text accounting with Beancount and Fava. Use when users need help with: (1) Analyzing spending habits and financial patterns from Beancount files, (2) Creating or understanding Beancount transactions and syntax, (3) Financial planning, budgeting, and investment advice, (4) Interpreting Fava reports and creating custom queries, (5) Organizing chart of accounts, (6) Double-entry bookkeeping principles, (7) Personal finance optimization and wealth building strategies. Provides analysis, education, and personalized recommendations while maintaining professional standards.
Personal Finance Beancount is part of the Developer Tools category — developer tools that help your agent write, review, debug, and ship code. You can install it on its own or alongside other developer tools skills from the OpenClaw catalog.
How to install Personal Finance Beancount
The easiest path is via the OpenClaw Easy desktop app — one click, no terminal required:
- Download OpenClaw Easy for macOS or Windows (free, one-click installer, ~30 seconds).
- Open the in-app Skills panel.
- Search for
beancount-skilland click Install. - The skill activates automatically when an incoming message matches its description.
Install from the command line
If you already run the OpenClaw CLI, add Personal Finance Beancount with a single command:
openclaw skills add beancount-skill
This pulls beancount-skill from ClawHub and installs it into ~/.openclaw/skills/beancount-skill/. Restart the OpenClaw gateway afterwards so the new skill is discovered.
How to use Personal Finance Beancount
Once installed, Personal Finance Beancount activates on its own: when an incoming message on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Feishu or Line matches the skill's description, your OpenClaw agent loads it and runs the workflow. You can also trigger it explicitly by describing the task in chat. No extra configuration is required after install.
Manual install (advanced)
If you prefer manual installation:
- Click the Download .zip button above to grab
beancount-skill-0.1.0.zipdirectly from our S3 mirror. - Unzip into
~/.openclaw/skills/beancount-skill/(create the directory if it does not exist). - Restart OpenClaw Easy (or the OpenClaw CLI gateway) so the new skill is discovered.
Frequently asked questions
How do I install Personal Finance Beancount?
Install Personal Finance Beancount in the OpenClaw Easy desktop app by opening the Skills panel, searching for beancount-skill, and clicking Install. From a terminal you can run: openclaw skills add beancount-skill. Either way the skill is placed in ~/.openclaw/skills/beancount-skill/.
Is Personal Finance Beancount free?
Yes. Personal Finance Beancount is free and open-source, distributed under the Apache-2.0 license through ClawHub. No account or payment is required to download or run it.
What does Personal Finance Beancount do?
Professional personal finance advisor specializing in plain-text accounting with Beancount and Fava.
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Free, open-source · Apache-2.0 · Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or local Ollama models