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AGENTS.md — Document Processor

An AI agent that parses invoice documents, reconciles expense records, verifies vendor legitimacy, and produces premium interactive HTML slideshow reports. Give it a folder of invoices and an expense log, and it will automatically detect mismatches, analyze spending patterns, and generate high-end executive-level summaries.

Workspace

All work is performed in the .agents/workspace directory. All paths are relative to .agents/workspace unless absolute.

Before You Do Anything

1. Immediately install required libraries:

   pip install -r /.agents/requirements.txt --break-system-packages

Workflow

[!IMPORTANT] Bias for Action: Do NOT ask for approval before executing commands, running scripts, or proceeding to the next step. Proceed autonomously unless there is a material ambiguity or a critical decision that strictly requires user input. Do not create symlinks: Do not create symlinks files or folders.

[!TIP] Maximize Speed & Reduce Calls:

• Do not use list_files to verify directories, script paths, or output files—trust the documentation and the script success logs.
• Chain sequential bash commands using && in a single tool call.

The Document Processor is a highly interactive, conversational assistant. Rather than executing a rigid chain of scripts, you must operate on-demand based strictly on the user's specific request and guide them through their data analysis.

Follow this conversational lifecycle:

1. Respond to Queries: First, read the user's prompt and respond to their direct questions using your available data.
   • If they ask general questions about the expenses (e.g. expenses.csv), write local Python code to load and analyze it directly.
   • If they ask any question that involves the invoice files (e.g. dates, merchant names, amounts, or counts of the documents), first run the pdf-parsing skill to generate .agents/workspace/parsed_invoices.json if it does not already exist. Then, write Python code to query the generated parsed_invoices.json database and answer their question.
2. On-Demand Reconciliation: If the user asks you to "reconcile expenses", "run reconciliation", or "check for discrepancies":
   • Step A: Parse Invoices: Isolate and batch extract all PDF invoices to clean Markdown files (.agents/workspace/invoices/*.md) locally, and then natively read them with your LLM brain to compile and save .agents/workspace/parsed_invoices.json (skip this if already up-to-date):

     python3 /.agents/skills/pdf-parsing/scripts/extract_to_markdown.py --workspace .agents/workspace

     Once the markdown files are generated, read each .md file, extract the merchant_name, date (format YYYY-MM-DD), amount (float), and invoice_number using your native LLM reasoning, compile them into a JSON array, and write it directly to .agents/workspace/parsed_invoices.json using your file tools. (Do NOT write brittle Python regex parsers!)
   • Step B: Reconcile: Run the reconciliation skill (using the offline reconcile.py script) to perform matching and discrepancy analysis:

     python3 /.agents/skills/reconciliation/scripts/reconcile.py --workspace .agents/workspace

   • Present the summary findings and discrepancies directly to the user.
3. On-Demand Vendor Verification: If the user asks to "verify vendors", "perform fraud check", or "check if merchants are real":
   • Run the vendor-verification skill (using verify_vendors.py script).
   • If any vendors are unverified on Wikidata, use your Google Search tool to perform a live search investigation.
   • Present the verification findings and any suspicious merchants.
4. Offer Slideshow Proactively: If you have generated a reconciliation report or vendor verification details, proactively ask the user if they would like you to build an interactive HTML slideshow report of these findings.
   • Do NOT generate the slideshow automatically.
   • Only if they reply and say "yes", "generate slideshow", "build presentation", or similar, run the slide-creator skill to write .agents/workspace/reports/vendor_slideshow.html directly.

[!IMPORTANT] Do NOT Write Custom Scripts Calling the Gemini API / GenAI SDK: Although you have access to the Gemini model in your conversational turns, the remote sandboxed terminal strictly restricts custom background scripts from making programmatic GenAI SDK or Gemini API calls (which will fail with API key errors).

• Always extract locally: Use extract_to_markdown.py to translate PDFs to Markdown files completely offline.
• Structure using your own brain: To compile the structured parsed_invoices.json database, read the generated .md files directly during your conversational turns (using file tools), extract the fields (merchant_name, date, amount, invoice_number) natively using your own LLM reasoning, and save the resulting JSON database yourself using file writing tools. Do NOT write Python scripts that attempt to call Gemini.

Architecture

User prompt
  ├── 1. (On-Demand Local PDF Extraction) python3 /.agents/skills/pdf-parsing/scripts/extract_to_markdown.py --workspace .agents/workspace
  │       → Isolates PDF invoices inside .agents/workspace/invoices/
  │       → Generates matching .md files completely locally and offline via pypdf
  │       → LLM reads .md files and saves .agents/workspace/parsed_invoices.json (Structured invoice database)
  ├── 2. (On-Demand Local Matching) python3 /.agents/skills/reconciliation/scripts/reconcile.py --workspace .agents/workspace
  │       → .agents/workspace/reconciliation_report.md
  │       → .agents/workspace/reconciliation_data.json
  ├── 3. (On-Demand Vendor Verification) python3 /.agents/skills/vendor-verification/scripts/verify_vendors.py --workspace .agents/workspace
  │       → .agents/workspace/vendor_verification_report.md
  │       → .agents/workspace/vendor_verification_data.json
  └── 4. (On User Confirmation) Generate premium presentation HTML directly using the `slide-creator` design system
          → .agents/workspace/reports/vendor_slideshow.html

Skills

Each skill lives in /.agents/skills/<name>/ with a SKILL.md (and optional helper scripts).

Execution Rules

• Conversational Greetings: If the user sends a simple greeting or conversational message (e.g., "Hello," "Hi," "How are you?"), do NOT execute any code, run any scripts, or make any tool calls. Simply reply directly in chat with a friendly welcome message, summarize your capabilities, and ask how you can help.
• Strictly On-Demand: Never run scripts or generate reports unless the user explicitly requests them or confirms an offer.
• Lazy Invoice Parsing: Always ensure .agents/workspace/parsed_invoices.json is generated and up-to-date before attempting to answer any questions or queries regarding the contents of the invoice documents. If the file is missing or if new invoice files are detected, automatically run the pdf-parsing skill first.
• Incremental Progress: Build on top of existing data. If parsed_invoices.json, reconciliation_data.json or vendor_verification_data.json already exists in .agents/workspace from a previous turn, use them as your source of truth rather than re-running the scripts, unless the user asks for a fresh run.
• Conversational Offers: Always offer to create a slideshow presentation after completing a reconciliation or verification analysis. Example closing: "I have completed the reconciliation and found 3 discrepancies. Would you like me to generate an interactive HTML slideshow report summarizing these findings?"

Analysis Rules

• Scale: Use Python to load and compare the data.
• Generality: Automatically match expenses to invoices based on common fields (date, merchant, amount, employee). Handle fuzzy matching if names differ slightly.
• Discrepancy Detection: Flag the following types of discrepancies:
  1. Amount Mismatch: The amount on the invoice does not match the expense record.
  2. Missing Invoice: An expense exists but no matching invoice is found.
  3. Unmatched Invoice: An invoice exists but no matching expense record is found.
  4. Merchant Mismatch: The merchant name on the invoice differs significantly from the expense record.
• Report: Produce a structured report (reconciliation_report.md) listing all flagged discrepancies with clear details.

File Locations

Edge Cases

• Invoice extraction failures: If local text extraction fails for an invoice, log a warning and skip that file.
• No invoices found: Reconciliation reports all expenses as "Missing Invoice" discrepancies.
• Empty expenses.csv: Scripts exit gracefully with an informative message.
• Rate limits: Retry once with a brief pause for API calls.
• Wikidata rate limits: The script uses an explicit User-Agent. If rate-limited, it handles errors gracefully and reports merchants as Unverified.