ghostfolio-cryptogains

ghostfolio-cryptogains is a terminal application that syncs supported activity history from Ghostfolio and generates yearly capital gains and losses reports. Synced activity is stored in token-locked local snapshots. Reports are generated as Markdown or PDF files in the current user's Documents directory.

The generated reports are reference material. They do not implement the legally required tax rules of any country and are not tax-return output.

Main Features

• Full-screen terminal workflow for Ghostfolio Cloud and custom Ghostfolio origins.
• Complete paginated sync of supported BUY and SELL activity history.
• Deterministic normalization, duplicate removal, and validation before data is accepted for reporting.
• Token-derived encrypted snapshots for later use without storing the Ghostfolio security token or JWT.
• Exact-decimal report calculation with FIFO, LIFO, HIFO, Average Cost Basis, and a scope-local hybrid cost-basis method.
• USD and EUR reports with official ECB or Federal Reserve exchange-rate evidence when currency conversion is required.
• Timestamped Markdown main-plus-annex bundles or combined searchable PDF reports.
• Local diagnostic reports for eligible sync and report failures.
• No in-application report history, reopen catalog, remote report storage, or automatic re-ingestion of exported reports.

Requirements

• Go 1.26.5.
• An interactive terminal.
• A Ghostfolio Cloud account or a reachable compatible self-hosted Ghostfolio server.
• A Ghostfolio security token.
• A pre-existing, writable Documents directory for report exports.
• Network access for initial dependency installation, Ghostfolio sync, and any required ECB or Federal Reserve currency conversion.

Linux, macOS, and Windows are target platforms. Maintained CI verification runs on Ubuntu. On Linux, xdg-open is optional and is used only to open a saved report in the default application.

Installation

The project does not currently publish tagged releases, prebuilt binaries, or package-manager distributions. Install the current source with Go:

go install github.com/benizzio/ghostfolio-cryptogains/cmd/ghostfolio-cryptogains@latest

Go installs the executable in GOBIN, or in Go's default binary directory when GOBIN is unset. Add that directory to PATH to invoke ghostfolio-cryptogains by name.

To build from a checkout instead:

git clone https://github.com/benizzio/ghostfolio-cryptogains.git
cd ghostfolio-cryptogains
go build -o ghostfolio-cryptogains ./cmd/ghostfolio-cryptogains
./ghostfolio-cryptogains

On Windows, use ghostfolio-cryptogains.exe as the output and executable name.

Startup

Start an installed executable:

ghostfolio-cryptogains

Run directly from a source checkout:

make run

Pass runtime flags through the Make target with ARGS:

make run ARGS='--config-dir /path/to/config-base --request-timeout 45s'

Use make run-dev only when intentionally testing a custom http:// origin:

make run-dev ARGS='--config-dir /path/to/config-base'

HTTP does not provide transport encryption, and development mode does not limit custom HTTP origins to the local machine. Do not use development mode with production credentials or across an untrusted network; the security token, JWT, account context, and activity data could be exposed in transit.

Runtime Flags

Flag	Default	Purpose
--config-dir <path>	Operating-system user config directory	Overrides the base config directory. The application still appends ghostfolio-cryptogains/.
--dev-mode	false	Allows custom http:// origins for the current process and automatically writes eligible diagnostics.
--request-timeout <duration>	30s	Sets the Ghostfolio client and sync-attempt timeout. The value must be a positive Go duration.
--window-width <int>	100	Sets the initial test-friendly terminal window width.
--window-height <int>	32	Sets the initial test-friendly terminal window height.

Using The Application

1. Configure Ghostfolio

On first launch, choose Ghostfolio Cloud or enter a custom server origin.

• Ghostfolio Cloud uses https://ghostfol.io.
• A custom origin must contain only an absolute scheme, host, and optional port.
• Custom origins require HTTPS unless the application is running with --dev-mode.
• Setup saves the selected server, but it does not authenticate or store a Ghostfolio security token.
• An HTTP origin remembered in development mode is invalid on a later launch without --dev-mode; the application returns to setup before making a Ghostfolio request.

Use Ctrl+E from the main menu to edit remembered setup.

2. Unlock Sync And Reports

Select Sync and Reports and enter the Ghostfolio security token. The token is masked in the terminal and retained only in the active application context. It is used to unlock a matching local snapshot or authenticate a new context against Ghostfolio.

An existing protected snapshot can be unlocked without contacting Ghostfolio. Leaving the Sync and Reports context clears its transient token and report state. The same token is required to recover that snapshot in a later process.

3. Sync Activity

Select Sync Data to:

1. Authenticate against Ghostfolio.
2. Retrieve the user's base-currency context.
3. Retrieve the complete paginated activity history.
4. Normalize, order, deduplicate, and validate supported activity.
5. Atomically write a protected local snapshot.

Only BUY and SELL activity is supported. Validation rejects unsupported or ambiguous history, including non-positive quantities, invalid monetary values, zero-priced buys, unexplained zero-priced sells, and activity that would produce negative holdings.

A successful refresh with the same token replaces its selected-server snapshot only after the new protected write succeeds. Another valid token creates an isolated snapshot.

4. Generate A Report

Select Generate Capital Gains Report, then choose:

• a year available in the unlocked snapshot;
• FIFO, LIFO, HIFO, Average Cost Basis, or the scope-local hybrid method;
• USD or EUR as the report currency; and
• Markdown or PDF as the output format.

The calculation replays supported history through the selected year. Cross-currency activity may require live ECB access for EUR reports or Federal Reserve access for USD reports. Each provider supports a fixed set of source currencies and searches up to 30 days back for an available observation. Unsupported currencies or unavailable observations stop report generation before export. Exchange-rate evidence is cached only for the current process.

Markdown output contains one main report and one separate Annex 1 file. PDF output contains the main report and Annex 1 in one landscape A4 file. The report includes summary, per-asset, rate-source, reference, and detailed activity audit data.

5. Manage The Export

Reports are saved to the resolved Documents directory:

Platform	Report directory
Linux	Configured XDG Documents directory, otherwise ~/Documents/
macOS	~/Documents/
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\

The Documents directory must already exist. The output location is not currently configurable, and --config-dir does not change it.

Report names include the year, cost-basis method, and timestamp. Existing files are not overwritten; a numeric suffix is added on collision. The application asks the operating system to open the main Markdown file or combined PDF after saving. An open failure is reported as a warning and does not remove the saved files.

All exported Markdown and PDF files contain cleartext financial data. The result screen lists every saved path. Delete every listed file when the export is no longer needed.

Generate A Diagnostic

For an eligible failure in a normal run, select Generate Diagnostic Report from the failure result or Sync and Reports context. Development mode writes eligible diagnostics automatically. The action is available only for failure categories that provide diagnostic context.

Keyboard Controls

Key	Action
Up / Down	Move through menu choices.
Enter	Select the current choice.
Tab	Change input focus where multiple fields are present.
Esc	Cancel setup editing.
Ctrl+E	Edit setup from the main menu.
Page Up / Page Down	Scroll a report result.
Ctrl+C	Quit.

Local Data And Security

The default application root is:

Platform	Application root
Linux	$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ghostfolio-cryptogains/ or ~/.config/ghostfolio-cryptogains/
macOS	~/Library/Application Support/ghostfolio-cryptogains/
Windows	%AppData%\ghostfolio-cryptogains\

When --config-dir <path> is supplied, the application root becomes <path>/ghostfolio-cryptogains/.

Path below the application root	Contents
setup.json	Bootstrap schema, selected server mode and origin, development-HTTP state, and update time.
snapshots/*.snapshot	Normalized activity history protected with a token-derived Argon2id key and AES-GCM.
diagnostics/*.diagnostic.json	Unencrypted diagnostics generated for eligible failures.

On platforms that expose Unix permission bits, application directories request mode 0700, while setup, snapshot, diagnostic, and report files request mode 0600. Windows relies on the current user's filesystem access controls instead.

The Ghostfolio security token, Ghostfolio JWT, and raw unprotected Ghostfolio payload are not persisted. Protected snapshots cannot be recovered without the corresponding token.

Diagnostics are not encrypted. Production-mode diagnostics omit quantity and monetary-value fields but can retain identifiers, timestamps, asset metadata, currencies, comments, server origin, and failure context. Development-mode diagnostics can retain financial values. Review a diagnostic before sharing it.

Removing Local Data

Exit the application before removing local data.

• Delete setup.json to return the next launch to first-run setup.
• Delete snapshots/ to remove protected synced activity history.
• Delete diagnostics/ to remove local diagnostic reports.
• Delete every generated ghostfolio-capital-gains-*.md and ghostfolio-capital-gains-*.pdf file from Documents to remove cleartext report exports.

Deleting setup does not delete snapshots, diagnostics, or report exports.

Current Limitations

• Activity types other than BUY and SELL are not supported.
• Report currencies are limited to USD and EUR.
• Reports are not country-specific tax-return output.
• Cross-currency report calculation may require live ECB or Federal Reserve access even when an existing protected snapshot is available offline.
• Cross-currency conversion is limited to source currencies and observations supported by the selected official provider.
• The Documents directory must exist and cannot be overridden.
• There is no report preview, persistent report history, or reopen catalog.
• There are no published release binaries or declared minimum compatible Ghostfolio product versions.

Development

Developer Requirements

• Go 1.26.5.
• Git and Make.
• A POSIX-compatible command environment for maintained Make recipes. On Windows, use WSL, Git Bash, or an equivalent environment.
• Network access when Go modules, toolchain components, vulnerability data, or opt-in live integrations are not cached.
• A fetched origin/main ref for the standard changed-source quality gate.

Development tools such as golangci-lint, govulncheck, gitleaks, and gocoverageplus are pinned through tool directives in go.mod; separate global installations are not required.

Project Structure

Path	Responsibility
cmd/ghostfolio-cryptogains/	CLI parsing, runtime assembly, startup routing, and Bubble Tea process entrypoint.
internal/app/bootstrap/	Process options and startup decisions.
internal/app/runtime/	Cross-package orchestration for setup, sync, snapshots, diagnostics, and report generation.
internal/config/	Bootstrap model, origin normalization, and atomic setup.json persistence.
internal/ghostfolio/	Ghostfolio HTTP client, DTO validation, and mapping into normalized activity.
internal/integration/currency/	ECB and Federal Reserve clients, rate evidence, conversion policy, and in-process caching.
internal/sync/	Normalized activity model, ordering, duplicate handling, year derivation, and history validation.
internal/snapshot/	Protected snapshot model, cryptographic envelope, discovery, compatibility, and atomic storage.
internal/report/model/	Report requests, calculated models, output metadata, validation, and report-domain errors.
internal/report/basis/	FIFO, LIFO, HIFO, average-cost, and scope-local hybrid allocation state.
internal/report/calculate/	Yearly gains-and-losses calculation from protected activity history.
internal/report/presentation/	Shared report display rules and format-neutral presentation rows.
internal/report/markdown/	Markdown main-report and Annex 1 rendering.
internal/report/pdf/	Local searchable PDF rendering, layout, pagination, and embedded fonts.
internal/report/output/	Documents resolution, collision-safe writes, cleanup, and default-app opening.
internal/tui/	Root workflow state, screens, reusable components, keyboard interaction, and result copy.
internal/support/	Shared date, decimal, exact-math, redaction, and text helpers.
tests/	Unit, contract, integration, empirical, performance, live external-integration, and shared test support.
tools/	Coverage denominator and gate tools plus explicit empirical-oracle regeneration tooling.
specs/	Feature requirements, plans, research, contracts, quickstarts, and task records.

Keep Ghostfolio transport details inside internal/ghostfolio/, normalized sync rules inside internal/sync/, report financial rules inside internal/report/, cross-package orchestration inside internal/app/runtime/, and rendering or input state inside internal/tui/.

Verification Commands

Command	Scope
make test-unit	Deterministic package-local tests under cmd/, internal/, and tests/unit.
make test-contract	Deterministic externally visible contracts under tests/contract.
make test-integration	Deterministic cross-package runtime flows under tests/integration; no live providers.
make test-empirical	Exact calculations against committed synthetic datasets and golden fixtures.
make test-tools	Repository-local empirical-oracle tool tests without regeneration.
make test	Exact deterministic aggregate of the five targets above.
make coverage	Canonical production coverage profile and 100% statement, line, and branch enforcement.
make test-performance	Isolated build-tagged resource scenarios; no live provider network or coverage artifact.
make test-external-integration	Opt-in live ECB and Federal Reserve checks; excluded from pull-request CI.
make quality QUALITY_BASE_REF=origin/main	Changed Go and module source lint, vulnerability, and secret scans.

make coverage writes dist/coverage/coverage.out and dist/coverage/coverage.xml. Diagnostic leaf targets are coverage-unit, coverage-contract, coverage-integration, coverage-empirical, coverage-tools, and coverage-external-integration. Performance evidence never contributes to canonical coverage.

The changed-source quality gate considers *.go, go.mod, and go.sum. It must also succeed through its explicit skip path for documentation-only changes.

Empirical datasets and generated oracle fixtures under testdata/empirical/ are read-only during ordinary development. make regenerate-empirical-fixtures is an explicit maintenance operation that may use Python, Git, network access, and the pinned rotki cache; do not run it unless the active specification authorizes fixture maintenance.

CI Checks

Pull requests use these independent checks on fresh Ubuntu runners:

• test / run
• coverage / run
• test-performance / run
• quality

Live external integration is not part of pull-request CI.

Further Reading

• Repository operating rules and package ownership
• Engineering constitution
• Current implementation plan
• Current verification quickstart
• Feature specifications and design history
• Empirical dataset boundary
• Pinned rotki oracle provenance
• Maintained commands

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.