Show HN: Magpie, a CLI to Turn Your AI Agent into a Bookkeeper
Magpie TL;DR Magpie is an opinionated accounting CLI for humans and AI agents. It provides one guarded path for chart-of-accounts management, double-entry journals, customers, invoices, payouts, notes, snapshots, and audit reads. The CLI checks RBAC and accounting invariants before appending an encrypted, immutable event to Jaybase.
- ▪Magpie TL;DR Magpie is an opinionated accounting CLI for humans and AI agents.
- ▪It provides one guarded path for chart-of-accounts management, double-entry journals, customers, invoices, payouts, notes, snapshots, and audit reads.
- ▪The CLI checks RBAC and accounting invariants before appending an encrypted, immutable event to Jaybase.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/kyle-visner/magpie |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:16:16 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-28T23:31:01.817Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-28T23:31:01.817Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 4sztJXmiPTMj · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Magpie TL;DR Magpie is an opinionated accounting CLI for humans and AI agents. It provides one guarded path for chart-of-accounts management, double-entry journals, customers, invoices, payouts, notes, snapshots, and audit reads. The CLI checks RBAC and accounting invariants before appending an encrypted, immutable event to Jaybase. Requires Go 1.26.5 or later. Earlier Go releases include known standard-library vulnerabilities and must not be used to build release binaries: git clone https://github.com/kyle-visner/magpie.git cd magpie go install ./cmd/magpie magpie --store .magpie init The initialized local book uses cash accounting and creates an owner actor with the Owner role. Read First-Time Setup before adding another actor or posting financial activity.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.