leafmonkeylabs/salli-core

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Tax rules ·
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Salli is personal finance with the books kept properly. A double-entry
ledger sits at the centre. Your banks and statements flow into it. Exact,
deterministic engines work out your tax, your cash flow, your investments and
your path to financial independence, and every figure can be traced to where it
came from.
It runs on your own server, and it works with the AI agent you already use.
Salli computes; your AI explains. No model ever does the maths.
The fidelity benchmark checks how faithfully an agent's answers quote Salli's own figures (which the engines' golden tests check).
Nothing about any country is built in. Your tax rules, planning figures and tax
ids are your data: written by you, or researched by your agent, then cited and
checked before Salli uses them.
> [!NOTE]
> Salli is young: the API is v1 and the CLI is 0.1. Expect rough edges.
> Your whole ledger exports to plain text at any time.
## What Salli does
### Keeps the books
A ledger that balances. Every entry is double-entry and posted entries
are permanent: a correction is a reversal, never an edit. Amounts are exact
decimals at your currency's own precision.
Your transactions come to you. Connect banks through SimpleFIN and they
sync on a schedule, or import a statement in any common format: OFX, QIF,
camt.053, MT940, CSV, Excel or PDF. Nothing is booked until you review it,
and nothing is booked twice.
Rules that book for you. Deterministic rules book a payee the same way
every time, before any model is asked. salli rules suggest offers the rules
your own bookkeeping implies.
Your books, in plain text. salli export beancount or salli export
hledger writes your whole ledger out, so you can leave at any time, or use
Fava alongside.
### Shows what's coming
Insights: cash flow, spending, net worth over time, and the recurring
payments you may not be tracking.
Forecast: a forecast of your cash to its lowest point, and what's safe
to spend before payday.
Signals: the things that need your attention: salli insights.
Real investment tracking. Transactions and lots, realised and
unrealised gains, income, and time-weighted and money-weighted returns.
Financial independence, in today's money. Projections run in real terms.
Until you set your own figures, with their sources, a placeholder stands in,
and is always labelled as one.
### Works your way
Tax rules are yours, as data. You or your AI agent write your country's
rules as a versioned, cited rule set, checked against the authority's own
worked examples. Only you can activate it. Salli then:
computes your tax with it, and explains every line;
prepares your return from the rules' forms;
reminds you of the rules' deadlines.
Each computation records the exact rules behind it
(docs/taxrules.md).
Sri Lanka is the first market with a ready-made pack: markets/lk.
The AI you already pay for. Connect Claude, Claude Code or ChatGPT over
MCP, and your subscription does the thinking while Salli supplies the numbers
(docs/ai-clients.md). Salli's own AI features run on
your ChatGPT plan, an OpenAI or Anthropic key, or no key at all.
CLI-first. Everything the API does, salli does from the terminal, with