# Statement samples

Drop your bank and card exports here, exactly as downloaded.

1. Make one folder per account, named however you like, e.g. `bofa-checking`,
   `bofa-savings`, `discover-1`, `discover-2`, `chase-prime-visa`.
2. Put that account's export in its folder untouched: same file name, same
   contents. Two or three months per account is plenty.
3. That's it. Tell Claude when they're in place.

How these files are protected:

- Git ignores everything in this folder except this note, and a pre-commit
  check blocks statement files anywhere in the project.
- Only the `pi` user can open this folder.
- Claude never opens the raw files. A script on this server turns each one
  into a masked profile (column headers, date and amount formats, value
  shapes such as `Aaaaaa #999` and `-99.99`), and Claude works from that.