Chapter 6 of 10 · 15 entries

6. Finance Operations and Accounting

Agents for bookkeeping, reconciliation, invoices, tax, and reporting, plus MCP access to accounting systems.

Ledgers and agent accountants

beancount Double-entry plaintext accounting ledger; common target for bookkeeping agents.
fava Web UI for Beancount; useful review surface next to an accounting agent.
Klaudia Self-hosted agentic accountant for receipts, reconciliation, and approvals.
Bookkeeping-Agency-Skill Skills pack for China bookkeeping-agency vertical agents. CN
accounted Open-source ERP designed to be operated by agents.
cfo-stack Beancount-based AI CFO workflow: import, classification, reconciliation, reports, and tax skills.

TaxHacker Self-hosted AI accounting app: LLM extraction for receipts, invoices, and transactions with custom categories.
openaccountants Sourced accounting and tax guides written for both people and AI agents.
shinkoku Japanese tax-return agent plugin covering bookkeeping through e-Tax entry.
mcp-fiscal-brasil Brazilian tax and fiscal MCP: CNPJ, NF-e, SPED, Simples Nacional, and more.
opentax Open-source US federal tax engine shipped as a single CLI with agent skills.

norman-mcp-server MCP for AI-powered bookkeeping and tax filing automation (EU-oriented).
quickbooks-online-mcp-server Official Intuit MCP server giving AI assistants access to QuickBooks Online data.
xero-mcp-server Official Xero MCP server for contacts, invoices, accounts, and reports.
stripe/ai Stripe's agent toolkit and MCP for payments, billing, and usage-based charging.

Accounting agents must be append-only or approval-gated. Never let an agent silently rewrite historical ledger entries.