Most personal finance tools are designed for humans staring at screens. Portfolio Performance is a great example — it’s a powerful, open-source desktop application for tracking investments, but all that rich data is locked behind a GUI. If you want to build automated workflows, run analytical scripts, or let an AI agent reason about your portfolio, you’re stuck.
That’s why I built pp-cli — a command-line tool written in Go that queries Portfolio Performance XML files directly from the terminal.
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