CashFlow

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name: CashFlow

version: "2.0.0"

author: "BytesAgain"

homepage: https://bytesagain.com

source: https://github.com/bytesagain/ai-skills

tags: ["finance","money","budget","cashflow","expense","income","tracker","personal-finance"]

categories: ["Finance", "Personal Management", "Productivity"]

description: "Track personal cash flow with simple terminal commands and local storage. Use when logging daily expenses, reviewing balance, or exporting records."

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# CashFlow

CashFlow is a multi-purpose utility tool for tracking and managing data entries from the terminal. It provides a simple log-based system for adding, listing, searching, and exporting entries with timestamped records.

Commands

| Command | Description |

|---------|-------------|

| `cashflow run <args>` | Execute the main function with given arguments |

| `cashflow config` | Show configuration file location (`config.json`) |

| `cashflow status` | Show current status (ready/not ready) |

| `cashflow init` | Initialize the data directory |

| `cashflow list` | List all entries in the data log |

| `cashflow add <entry>` | Add a new dated entry to the data log |

| `cashflow remove <entry>` | Remove an entry |

| `cashflow search <term>` | Search entries (case-insensitive grep) |

| `cashflow export` | Export all data to stdout |

| `cashflow info` | Show version and data directory path |

| `cashflow help` | Show all available commands |

| `cashflow version` | Show version number |

How It Works

CashFlow uses a flat-file approach. All entries are stored in `data.log` as dated lines (`YYYY-MM-DD <content>`). Every command also appends a timestamped record to `history.log` for auditing.

Data Storage

All data is stored locally in `~/.local/share/cashflow/` by default:

Override the storage location by setting the `CASHFLOW_DIR` environment variable:

export CASHFLOW_DIR="$HOME/my-data/cashflow"

Alternatively, `XDG_DATA_HOME` is respected if `CASHFLOW_DIR` is not set.

Requirements

When to Use

1. **Quick data logging** — Use `cashflow add` to rapidly log entries (expenses, tasks, notes) with automatic date stamps

2. **Reviewing stored entries** — Run `cashflow list` to see everything you've logged, or `cashflow search` to find specific entries

3. **Exporting data for analysis** — Use `cashflow export > data.csv` to dump all entries for import into spreadsheets or other tools

4. **Project initialization** — Run `cashflow init` to set up the data directory on a new machine or project

5. **Checking tool status** — Use `cashflow status` and `cashflow info` to verify the tool is ready and see version/path information

Examples

# Initialize the data directory
cashflow init

# Add entries
cashflow add "Monthly rent payment 2500"
cashflow add "Freelance invoice received 8000"
cashflow add "Grocery shopping 350"

# List all entries
cashflow list

# Search for specific entries
cashflow search rent
cashflow search invoice

# Export data to a file
cashflow export > my-records.txt

# Check status and info
cashflow status
cashflow info

# Run a custom operation
cashflow run process-monthly

# View configuration location
cashflow config

# Remove an entry
cashflow remove "old entry"

# Show version
cashflow version

Output

All command output goes to stdout. The history log is always written to `$DATA_DIR/history.log`. Redirect output as needed:

cashflow list > all-entries.txt
cashflow export | grep "2026-03" > march-data.txt

Configuration

| Variable | Purpose | Default |

|----------|---------|---------|

| `CASHFLOW_DIR` | Override data/config directory | `~/.local/share/cashflow/` |

| `XDG_DATA_HOME` | Fallback base directory | `~/.local/share/` |

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