Comment by aussieguy1234

7 months ago

I tried to get an AI agent to do my taxes, I used a gmail MCP agent (1) and Roo Code, complete with a custom system prompt for an accountant role.

Its job was to go over my bank transactions and link them to invoices in gmail by searching for them (and also downloading the attachments)

The transactions were exported from my online banking in CSV format.

It worked after about 4 hours of effort. Then I realised I could have done it myself in about an hour, so might have put a bit too much time into it...

I tried using Claude Sonnet and Kimi K2, given these benchmark results I probably should have given Gemini 2.5 pro a go.

I had to stop/restart the agent a few times because of context rot.

Do any frameworks exist that I could use to write code to implement an agent, lets say in TypeScript or Python, so I could make it use a fresh context each time?