Pp Expensify

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Expensify — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the expensify-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install expensify --cli-only

2. Verify: expensify-pp-cli --version
3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead:

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/productivity/expensify/cmd/expensify-pp-cli@latest

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

expensify-pp-cli turns the Expensify web app into a terminal. Log in once, and every filing/reviewing/submitting task that used to require clicking through forms becomes a single command. A local SQLite store gives you offline search, rollups, dupe detection, and missing-receipt alerts that no other Expensify tool has.

When to Use This CLI

Pick this CLI when you want to file, review, or submit Expensify expenses and reports without leaving the terminal. It excels at one-liner expense filing from natural language, end-of-month report drafting from a date range, offline search across years of expenses, and orchestrating accounting-system exports. Agents can drive it through the standard --json output and typed exit codes, or through the built-in MCP bridge mode.

Unique Capabilities

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Filing at thought speed

• expense quick — File an expense with one line: amount, merchant, and category parsed from a short prompt — no forms, no web UI.

  When a user tells an agent 'I just expensed dinner at Maya for $42.50,' the agent should file it in one call — not walk through six fields.

  expensify-pp-cli expense quick "Dinner at Maya $42.50" --agent

• report draft — Create a report and auto-attach every un-reported expense from a date range in a single command.

  End-of-month submission turns from 45 clicks into one command.

  expensify-pp-cli report draft --since 2026-04-01 --title "April expenses" --policy YOUR_POLICY_ID

• expense from-line — Paste a raw bank or card CSV row and the CLI extracts date/merchant/amount/currency and files the expense.

  Reconciling AmEx? Paste a row, file an expense. No copy-paste-copy-paste.

  expensify-pp-cli expense from-line "2026-04-18 DOORDASH*JOES $14.25" --category Meals

Local state that compounds

• damage — Single-glance summary: total expensed, pending, approved, paid for the current month (or a custom range).

  Agents asked 'how much did I expense this month' get one answer in one call.

  expensify-pp-cli damage --month current --json

• expense search — FTS5 search over all your expenses by merchant, comment, category, or tag. Regex-friendly.

  Agents asked 'did I expense that Starbucks last month' get an answer in one local query.

  expensify-pp-cli expense search "coffee" --since 2026-01-01 --json

• expense missing-receipts — Lists expenses without attached receipts so you can catch them before submitting a report.

  Submit-report-and-get-bounced feels bad; surface missing receipts upfront.

  expensify-pp-cli expense missing-receipts --json

• expense rollup — Pivot-table expenses by category, tag, or merchant for any time range.

  Build your own spending dashboard without burning API budget.

  expensify-pp-cli expense rollup --month 2026-04 --by category

• expense dupes — Finds expenses that look like duplicates by (merchant, amount, date±window).

  Accidental double-file is a top AP pain point; surface it before submission.

  expensify-pp-cli expense dupes --window 3d --json

Agent-native plumbing

• expense bulk — File a whole list of expenses in a single Expense_Create request.

  Reach for this when filing many expenses at once instead of looping create — it is one atomic request.

  expensify-pp-cli expense bulk --input rows.jsonl --dry-run

• report submit — Submit a report and optionally poll until it leaves SUBMITTED.

  Use --wait when a downstream step depends on the report actually being approved/rejected, not just submitted.

  expensify-pp-cli report submit --report-id 1587860702457827 --wait --timeout 1h

HTTP Transport

This CLI uses Chrome-compatible HTTP transport for browser-facing endpoints. It does not require a resident browser process for normal API calls.

Command Reference

admin — Integration Server: policy, employee, and rules admin

• expensify-pp-cli admin cards-list — List domain cards (Domain Cards Getter)
• expensify-pp-cli admin cards-owners — List card owners (Card Owner Data)
• expensify-pp-cli admin employee-add — Add an employee to a policy (Advanced Employee Updater)
• expensify-pp-cli admin employee-remove — Remove an employee from a policy
• expensify-pp-cli admin employee-update — Update an employee (Advanced Employee Updater)
• expensify-pp-cli admin policy-get — Get a policy's full config (Policy Getter)
• expensify-pp-cli admin policy-list — List all policies you admin (Policy List Getter)
• expensify-pp-cli admin policy-new — Create a new policy (Policy Creator)
• expensify-pp-cli admin policy-set-categories — Update categories for a policy from YAML
• expensify-pp-cli admin policy-set-fields — Update report fields for a policy
• expensify-pp-cli admin policy-set-tags — Update tags for a policy from YAML
• expensify-pp-cli admin report-set-status — Force a report status transition (Report Status Updater)
• expensify-pp-cli admin rules-new — Create an expense rule (Expense Rules Creator)
• expensify-pp-cli admin rules-update — Update an expense rule
• expensify-pp-cli admin tag-approvers-set — Set tag approvers (Tag Approvers Updater)

category — Workspace categories (for expense classification)

• expensify-pp-cli category — List categories for a workspace

expense — Create, list, and manage personal expenses

• expensify-pp-cli expense attach — Attach or replace a receipt on an expense
• expensify-pp-cli expense create — Create a new expense
• expensify-pp-cli expense delete — Delete an expense
• expensify-pp-cli expense edit — Edit an existing expense
• expensify-pp-cli expense get — Get expense detail by transaction ID
• expensify-pp-cli expense list — List your expenses with filters

export_resource — Integration Server: export reports to accounting systems (admin)

• expensify-pp-cli export-resource download — Download a previously generated export file
• expensify-pp-cli export-resource run — Export reports via Report Exporter (Integration Server)

me — Current user profile

• expensify-pp-cli me — Get current user profile

recon — Integration Server: corporate card reconciliation (admin)

• expensify-pp-cli recon — Export reconciliation data for a domain

report — Create, manage, and submit expense reports

• expensify-pp-cli report add — Add expenses to a report
• expensify-pp-cli report approve — Approve a report (manager action)
• expensify-pp-cli report comment — Add a comment to a report thread
• expensify-pp-cli report create — Create a new report
• expensify-pp-cli report delete — Delete a draft report
• expensify-pp-cli report get — Get report detail
• expensify-pp-cli report list — List your reports
• expensify-pp-cli report pay — Mark a report as reimbursed
• expensify-pp-cli report reopen — Reopen a submitted report back to draft
• expensify-pp-cli report submit — Submit a report for approval

tag — Workspace tags (multi-level, for expense classification)

• expensify-pp-cli tag — List tags for a workspace

workspace — View workspaces (policies) you have access to

• expensify-pp-cli workspace get — Get workspace detail
• expensify-pp-cli workspace list — List workspaces accessible to your account

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:

expensify-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>"

which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to --help or use a narrower query.

Recipes

File a quick expense

expensify-pp-cli expense quick "Lunch at Joe's $18.50"

One line, one call, one expense. Category auto-suggested from your history.