| name | financial-snapshot |
| description | Fetch the consolidated financial snapshot for a given tax year from a DocVault instance (tax docs, sales, mileage, retirement, brokerage, crypto, bank accounts, real estate). Use when the user wants a year overview, tax estimates, deduction review, or a snapshot feeding downstream strategy skills. |
| argument-hint | ["year"] |
Fetch the consolidated financial snapshot for a given tax year from a DocVault instance and present it.
Setup
The skill expects DocVault to be reachable at ${DOCVAULT_URL} (default http://localhost:3005). Set the env var if your instance lives elsewhere — for example a NAS:
export DOCVAULT_URL=http://docvault.local:3005
Instructions
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Determine the year from $ARGUMENTS. If empty, default to the current calendar year (use date +%Y). For the tax-filing season (Jan–Apr), the prior year is usually the right default — ask the user if ambiguous.
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Fetch the markdown snapshot:
YEAR="${1:-$(date +%Y)}"
curl -s "${DOCVAULT_URL:-http://localhost:3005}/api/financial-snapshot/${YEAR}?format=md"
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If the curl fails (connection refused, timeout), tell the user the DocVault container may not be running. For self-hosted Docker setups this typically means checking docker ps | grep docvault (or ssh <host> 'docker ps | grep docvault' for a remote NAS deployment).
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Present the full markdown output to the user — do NOT summarize or truncate
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After presenting, offer follow-ups: tax estimates, missing deductions, quarterly payment sizing, Schedule C category review, retirement-account optimization, or net-worth interpretation
Drilling deeper — raw endpoints
The markdown snapshot is comprehensive but rolled up. For drill-down questions, hit the underlying endpoints directly.
| Question | Endpoint |
|---|
| Full JSON snapshot for a year (feeds downstream skills) | GET /api/financial-snapshot/<year>?format=json |
| Token-efficient flat format for LLM consumption | GET /api/financial-snapshot/<year>?format=toon |
| List all entities | GET /api/entities |
| Files for an entity + year (parsed + raw) | GET /api/files/<entityId>/<year> |
| Parsed data for one document | GET /api/parsed/<entityId>/<path> |
| Mileage ledger | GET /api/mileage |
| Sales ledger | GET /api/sales |
| Precious metals inventory | GET /api/gold |
| Real-estate properties | GET /api/property |
| Additional income (recurring sources) | GET /api/income |
| Live quant signals (BTC, macro, sector rotation) | GET /api/quant/... — see /strategy skill for the full list |
Prefer piping through node or jq rather than dumping the whole JSON into context. The TOON format is ~60% fewer tokens if you need to feed a large year into a subagent or another skill.
Format options
| Format | Default content-type | Use when |
|---|
?format=md | text/markdown | Presenting to the user (readable tables) |
?format=toon | text/plain | Feeding to another LLM step (lowest tokens) |
?format=json | application/json | Programmatic post-processing |
Notes
- Endpoint base:
${DOCVAULT_URL:-http://localhost:3005}/api/financial-snapshot/<year>.
- Data sources consolidated (per
server/routes/financial-snapshot.ts):
- Parsed tax documents (W-2, 1099s, K-1s, receipts, invoices, mortgage statements)
- Sales & mileage ledgers, business assets, retirement contributions (Solo 401(k), IRA, etc.)
- Brokerage holdings, crypto balances, precious metals, real-estate equity
- SimpleFIN bank account balances + account annotations (rates/types)
- Crypto cost-basis gains from Koinly exports
- Bank-statement deposit reconciliation (quarterly + Form 2210 periods)
- Tax summary (wages, Schedule C, cap gains, SE tax, estimated AGI)
- Upcoming reminders/deadlines
Privacy reminder
The payload contains real financial records, account numbers (partial), and tax data. Do NOT paste output into external tools, chat interfaces, or commit it to a repository. Keep the snapshot in-session.
