taxclaw

Local-first AI tax document extraction skill for OpenClaw.

🔐 Security & Permissions Manifest

TaxClaw declares the following permissions transparently. Review before installing.

TaxClaw does NOT:

• - Exfiltrate documents, fields, or extracted data
• Read files outside of paths you explicitly provide to ingest
• Phone home, send telemetry, or contact external servers (default mode)
• Store or transmit SSN, EIN, or account numbers to any third party

If you enable cloud mode (Claude): A mandatory privacy warning is displayed. You must explicitly set cloud_acknowledged: true in config before processing begins.

Audit this skill: Source code is fully open at github.com/DougButdorf/TaxClaw (MIT License). Read it before you install it.

Setup

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Config

Config lives at:

• - INLINECODE4

Default is local-first (Ollama on your machine). If you enable cloud mode, TaxClaw will refuse to run until you explicitly acknowledge the privacy warning in config.

Start web UI

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CLI usage

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Trigger phrases (OpenClaw agent)

• - "extract my tax document"
• "parse this 1099" / "read this W-2"
• "open TaxClaw" / "start taxclaw"
• "process my tax forms"
• "show my tax documents"