Wells Fargo Bank Statements

For Claude: How to Use This Skill

Skill instructions are preloaded in context when this skill is active. Do not perform filesystem searches or tool-driven exploration to rediscover them; use the guidance below directly.

When To Use

• Download Wells Fargo monthly statements as PDFs.
• Parse transactions from statement PDFs.
• Persist masked statement and transaction data into SerenDB.
• Produce reusable cashflow datasets for downstream skills.

Safety Profile

• Strict execution boundary: read-only.
• Runtime auth mode: prompt each run.
• Never persists username, password, or OTP codes.
• Keeps raw PDFs local only.
• Stores only masked account fields in SerenDB.
• SerenDB sync is enabled by default and auto-resolves DB URL from logged-in Seren context.
• Browser control is MCP-native via SerenDesktop Local Playwright MCP.
• In manual auth mode, the run prompts for an installed browser choice unless --browser-app / --browser-type are provided.
• Manual auth opens https://wellsfargo.com/ automatically before handoff.
• After login handoff, the run auto-attempts Accounts -> View Statements & Documents.
• Browser execution is split into browser-specific paths:
  • Firefox path preserves the historically stable flow.
  • Chrome path enables isolated recovery/fallback logic for Chrome-only issues.
• The run enforces a single active process lock per artifact directory to prevent multiple browser windows from concurrent runs.
• The run defaults to 12 months of statements (minimum 3).

Workflow Summary

1. auth_prompted asks for username/password at runtime.
2. playwright_browser captures selected browser target (prompted in manual mode).
3. otp_waiting pauses and prompts for OTP if challenge appears.
4. authenticated confirms dashboard/session access.
5. statement_indexed discovers statement rows.
6. pdf_downloaded downloads PDFs to local artifacts.
7. pdf_parsed extracts normalized transaction rows.
8. classified applies rules-first + LLM-fallback categorization.
9. serendb_synced upserts masked metadata and transaction rows.
10. complete writes a user-facing success report.

SerenDB URL resolution order:

1. WF_SERENDB_URL if explicitly provided.
2. Logged-in Seren CLI context (seren env init with resolved project/branch).
3. Fallback project/branch selection from seren list-all-databases using serendb.project_name, serendb.branch_name, and serendb.database_name (default serendb).

API Key Setup

Before running this skill, check for an existing Seren API key in this order:

1. Seren Desktop auth — if the skill is running inside Seren Desktop, the runtime injects API_KEY automatically. Check: echo $API_KEY. If set, no further action is needed.
2. Existing .env file — check if SEREN_API_KEY is already set in the skill's .env file. If set, no further action is needed.
3. Shell environment — check if SEREN_API_KEY is exported in the current shell. If set, no further action is needed.

Only if none of the above are set, register a new agent account:

curl -sS -X POST "https://api.serendb.com/auth/agent" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"bank-statement-processing"}'

Extract the API key from the response at .data.agent.api_key — this key is shown only once. Write it to the skill's .env file:

SEREN_API_KEY=<the-returned-key>

Verify:

curl -sS "https://api.serendb.com/auth/me" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SEREN_API_KEY"

Do not create a new account if a key already exists. Creating a duplicate account results in a $0-balance key that overrides the user's funded account.

Reference: https://docs.serendb.com/skills.md

Quick Start

1. Install dependencies:

cd examples/migrations/wellsfargo-bank-statements-download
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
cp .env.example .env
cp config.example.json config.json
seren auth
# alternative for non-interactive runs: export SEREN_API_KEY
# export SEREN_API_KEY=sb_...
# optional but recommended in multi-project accounts:
# set serendb.project_id (or serendb.project_name) and/or serendb.database_name in config.json
# optional: set PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_SCRIPT in .env if auto-detect is unavailable
# example: /Applications/SerenDesktop.app/Contents/Resources/embedded-runtime/mcp-servers/playwright-stealth/dist/index.js

2. Run end-to-end (read-only):

python3 scripts/run.py --config config.json --mode read-only --months 12 --out artifacts/wellsfargo

3. Resume a prior interrupted run:

python3 scripts/run.py --config config.json --mode read-only --resume --out artifacts/wellsfargo

Commands

# End-to-end run
python3 scripts/run.py --mode read-only --months 12 --out artifacts/wellsfargo

# End-to-end run with explicit browser override (skips browser prompt)
python3 scripts/run.py --mode read-only --auth-method manual --browser-app "Google Chrome" --browser-type chrome --months 12 --out artifacts/wellsfargo

# End-to-end run pinned to Firefox stable path
python3 scripts/run.py --mode read-only --auth-method manual --browser-app "Firefox" --browser-type moz-firefox --months 12 --out artifacts/wellsfargo

# End-to-end run with passkey auth (requires local user approval prompt)
python3 scripts/run.py --mode read-only --auth-method passkey --months 12 --out artifacts/wellsfargo

# Parse local PDFs only (skip browser)
python3 scripts/run.py --mode read-only --skip-download --out artifacts/wellsfargo

# Replay SerenDB sync from local artifacts
python3 scripts/run.py --mode read-only --skip-download --replay-serendb <run_id> --out artifacts/wellsfargo

Outputs

• Local PDFs: artifacts/wellsfargo/pdfs/...
• Checkpoint state: artifacts/wellsfargo/state/checkpoint.json
• Machine report: artifacts/wellsfargo/reports/<run_id>.json
• Human summary: artifacts/wellsfargo/reports/<run_id>.md
• Transaction export: artifacts/wellsfargo/exports/<run_id>.transactions.jsonl

SerenDB Tables

• wf_runs
• wf_statement_files
• wf_transactions
• wf_txn_categories
• wf_monthly_summary

Reusable Views

• v_wf_latest_statements
• v_wf_transactions_clean
• v_wf_monthly_cashflow