Show HN: Claude skill to do your taxes(github.com)
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Show HN: Claude skill to do your taxes
https://github.com/robbalian/claude-tax-filing
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Thanks for this. Was just contemplating doing the same. I used to love Turbotax but feel like they haven't improved in ~10 years.
How do you make sure it’s aware of the latest state/federal policies?
it's crazy that it gave the same results! honestly hate all the upselling Turbotax tries to do every other screen
I tested it against TurboTax on my own 2024 and 2025 return. Same result without clicking through 45 minutes of wizard steps.
Would love PRs or feedback as we come up on tax season.
Learnings from replacing TurboTax with Claude
Skill looping The first iteration of my taxes took almost an hour and a decent amount of prompting. Many context compactions, tons of PDF issues, lots of exploration. When it was done, I asked Claude to write the skill to make it faster the next time (eg: Always check for XFA tags first when discovering form fields)
Skills aren’t just .MD files anymore Now they’re folders that can contain code snippets, example files, rules. In 2025 we were all building custom agents with custom tools. In 2026 every agent has its own code execution, network connection, and workspace. So it’s custom skills on the same agent (trending towards Claude Code or Cowork)