# Cab Claims > Pull cab/ride-hailing receipts (Grab, Gojek, ComfortDelGro/CDG, Tada) from a mailbox for a given time window, convert each receipt to PDF, cross-check the trip time against a calendar to infer which meeting/client the ride was for, and compile a CSV for an expense claim system. Use when the user says "run cab claims", "compile my cab receipts", "/cab-claims", or asks to process taxi/Grab/Gojek receipts for expense claims. Accepts an optional time-bound argument (e.g. "past 3 months", "Jan-Mar 2026", explicit date range). Defaults to the past 3 months if no range is given. - Skill: `jiahao1553/cab-claims` (Agent Skill) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add jiahao1553/cab-claims` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/jiahao1553/cab-claims/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Data & Analytics - Author: jiahao1553 (https://skillmd.com/u/jiahao1553) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/jiahao1553/cab-claims --- Compile cab-fare receipts into a claim-ready CSV + PDF evidence pack. ## Prerequisites (MCP dependencies) This skill needs two MCP connections: 1. **A mail MCP** (e.g. `hypermail`) to search/read receipt emails. 2. **A calendar MCP** (e.g. Microsoft 365 / Google Calendar) to cross-check trip times against meetings. **On first run, or if any tool call below 404s / is missing, do this before anything else:** - Run `ToolSearch` for `"mail"` and `"calendar"` to see what's actually wired up (tool names vary by workspace — e.g. `mcp__hypermail__*`, `mcp__claude_ai_Microsoft_365__*`, `mcp__claude_ai_Google_Calendar__*`). - If nothing turns up for one or both, tell the user plainly which one is missing and how to add it: - Claude Code / claude.ai connectors (Microsoft 365, Google Calendar, Gmail): guide them to enable it via `/mcp` in Claude Code, or Settings → Connectors on claude.ai, then call that connector's `authenticate` / `complete_authentication` tool if one exists. - Standalone MCP servers (e.g. `hypermail`): guide them to check `claude mcp list`, and if absent, add it with `claude mcp add ` (ask the user for the server's install command/URL if you don't already know it — don't guess a package name). - Do not silently skip this check and fail deeper into the workflow — confirm the tools resolve before searching for receipts. ## Inputs Ask the user (don't assume) at the start of a run, unless they've already given these in their invocation: - **Mailbox account** — which mailbox to search for receipts (e.g. `you@example.com`). Confirm via the mail MCP's account-listing tool (e.g. `mcp__hypermail__list_accounts`) if unsure which account key to use. - **Calendar account** — which calendar to cross-check trip times against. Confirm via the calendar MCP's "who am I" tool if available (e.g. `mcp__claude_ai_Microsoft_365__get_me`). - **Time range**: parse from the user's invocation (e.g. "past 3 months", "last month", explicit dates). If none given, default to **today minus 3 months → today**. - **Output folder**: default to `./receipts//` under the current project (e.g. `2026-Q2`, or `2026-03_to_2026-07` if it doesn't cleanly map to a quarter) — confirm the path with the user if the project layout is ambiguous. Two subfolders: - `raw/` — trimmed source HTML per trip. - `pdf/` — converted PDF per trip, prefixed `Work_` or `Personal_`. - **Output CSV**: default to `./claims_.csv` in the project root. Once confirmed for a given project/user, it's fine to reuse the same mailbox/calendar answers on subsequent runs without re-asking — but re-confirm if the skill is being run for a different person or a fresh project. ## Steps 1. **Search mail.** Use the mail MCP's search tool on the chosen mailbox with a query covering all four vendors and the date range, e.g.: `(Grab OR Gojek OR ComfortDelGro OR CDG OR Tada) AND (receipt OR trip OR fare) AND received:YYYY-MM-DD..YYYY-MM-DD` Use a generous page size; paginate if the result count suggests more exist. 2. **Filter to real cab trips.** Discard marketing/promo mail. Keep only: - Grab: subject `Your Grab E-Receipt` **and** body contains `Car or taxi` or `Hitch` (i.e. exclude `GrabFood` orders — those are food, not cab fare). - Gojek: subject starting `Your trip with Gojek`. - CDG/ComfortDelGro, Tada: receipt-style subjects from those senders (inspect the body the first time you see one — patterns aren't yet catalogued here). 3. **Read full body + extract fields.** For each candidate, read the email with HTML formatting preserved (needed for the PDF later) and pull out: pickup date, pickup time, dropoff time, pickup address, dropoff address, total fare paid, booking ID. 4. **Cross-check calendar first** (need the Work/Personal verdict before naming the PDF). For each trip's date, search the calendar with a window spanning that full day. Match the trip's pickup/dropoff time (±~30 min buffer for travel) against event start/end times (watch for timezone offsets between event times and local time) and, where possible, against event location matching the trip's pickup/dropoff address. - If a clear match exists → **Type = Work**, note it as `Attend meeting with `. - If no meeting overlaps → **Type = Personal**, note `PERSONAL - , no calendar meeting match` — flag for the user's own judgement rather than guessing it's claimable. 5. **Generate PDF evidence.** - Save the **full, untouched original receipt HTML body** to `receipts//raw/__.html` — do **not** strip `` tags. Logos/badges/icons are often remote images that headless Chrome fetches live at PDF-print time; stripping them (or rebuilding a "cleaned" HTML template) silently drops every image. Only pre-download/embed images as data URIs if network access to those CDNs turns out to be blocked. - Convert to PDF with headless Chrome, output filename **prefixed `Work_` or `Personal_`** per the step-4 verdict, into `receipts//pdf/`: `Work_grab_2026-05-04_9.80.pdf`, `Personal_grab_2026-06-02_20.60.pdf`, etc. - Suppress Chrome's default header/footer (page title/URL/date) with `--no-pdf-header-footer` — otherwise the PDF shows the source filename/path in the header, which shouldn't appear on the claim document. - **Windows path gotcha**: backslash-escaped Windows paths passed to `--print-to-pdf` can fail with "Access is denied" — use **forward-slash absolute paths** for both the input `file:///C:/...` URL and the `--print-to-pdf=C:/...` output path: ``` "/c/Program Files/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe" --headless --disable-gpu \ --no-pdf-header-footer \ --print-to-pdf="C:/path/to/receipts//pdf/_.pdf" \ "file:///C:/path/to/receipts//raw/.html" ``` Fall back to `msedge.exe` at `C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\` if Chrome isn't present. 6. **Compile CSV** with columns exactly: `Date,Type,Notes,Cab Fare (SGD),PDF Filename` (Type = `Work` or `Personal`). One row per trip, sorted by date. Save to `claims_.csv` in the project root. 7. **Report a short summary** to the user: number of trips found, split of business vs personal, total fare amount, and file paths of the CSV + PDF folder. Don't editorialize on the CSV/PDF content beyond that. ## Notes - Currency/vendor set (Grab, Gojek, CDG, Tada, SGD) assumes Singapore; adjust vendor list and currency if reused elsewhere. - Log any new mailbox/vendor email-template quirks you discover back into this file's steps so the next run doesn't have to rediscover them.