Copilot (with model Claude Sonnet 4) looked at the files and understood enough hledger to find my tags
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Thanks for sharing your experiments.
I could see this being acceptable for non-private data, possibly..
I'm guessing you could get better results, even without a dedicated "MCP" or "tool" for hledger, by writing some instructions in CLAUDE.md like
- `hledger` lists available commands
- `hledger CMD -h` shows the usage and full help for any command
and something about how to find other important docs such as: file formats, queries, options, period expressions, directives etc. Currently that requires either visiting a web page, or running hledger help; but one thing help doesn't support yet is printing just the requested doc section and nothing else - that would be a useful thing.
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