Paperasse: AI agent skills for French accounting, tax, notarial and syndic paperwork

What Paperasse is and who it is for

Paperasse is a collection of skills for AI agents, the README lists Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Codex, Mistral Vibe, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline and Aider, specialised in the accounting, taxation, invoicing, notarial work and audit of French businesses. Each skill turns your agent into an expert copilot for one part of French paperwork, and the skills know the relevant texts (the CGI tax code, BOFiP doctrine, the NEP audit standards, the 1965 co-ownership law), the forms, the deadlines and, as the README puts it, which box to tick in the tax return.

The audience is specific: French entrepreneurs, accountants, and individuals dealing with French administrative and tax matters, who already work with an AI agent. Because the skills are plain Markdown, they work with any agent or tool that can read files. The name itself, French slang for tedious paperwork, signals the intent: automate the drudgery of French bureaucracy. This article is in English, but the skills and their outputs are built for the French system.

The six skills

Paperasse ships six role-based skills. comptable is the accountant: bookkeeping across the 800-plus accounts of the French chart of accounts (PCG), VAT, corporate and income tax, a full 12-step annual close, the FEC accounting file, the tax return bundle (liasse fiscale), PDFs, bank reconciliation and invoicing. controleur-fiscal simulates a DGFIP tax audit across eight axes with heads of reassessment, legal basis and amounts. commissaire-aux-comptes performs a seven-phase statutory audit (NEP) with cross-validation of the balance sheet, income statement and tax return and a reasoned opinion.

The other three cover people and property. fiscaliste handles personal taxation, income tax, the IFI wealth tax, the flat tax versus the progressive scale, PEA, life insurance, furnished-rental regimes, RSU and stock options, crypto and retirement savings. notaire covers notarial fees, property capital gains, successions, gifts, SCI property companies and estate advice. syndic manages a portfolio of co-ownerships: general meetings, calls for funds, the 2005-decree accounting, works, suppliers and unpaid charges.

Installing Paperasse

There are two main routes, both driven by pasting instructions into your agent rather than running shell commands yourself. The recommended one uses the agentskill.sh registry, which keeps the skills updated automatically with a security scan and auto-review; you paste an instruction telling your agent to install the Paperasse skillset from agentskill.sh and then run the setup. The second route points the agent straight at the GitHub repo: you paste an instruction to install all skills from the repository and run the setup, and the agent clones the repo, installs the skills, and runs a guided setup that asks for your company name, VAT regime and bank accounts.

There is a caution for manual installation. The skills use symbolic links to shared resources (data, scripts, templates, integrations), and some installers that download folders one file at a time via the GitHub API turn those links into small text files, breaking them; the README points to a manual-install doc with the correct Codex commands and checks. The deterministic parts of the accounting are Node scripts you can run directly, for example the full closing pipeline:

npm run closing

How you actually use it

In use, you talk to your agent in plain French and the relevant skill responds as the appropriate professional. The README's examples give the flavour: categorise bank transactions and generate the journal entries; run the annual close for a financial year; simulate a tax audit on the year's accounts; calculate notary fees for a 350,000 EUR flat in Paris; work out inheritance rights for three children; draft the statutes of a family SCI; prepare the notice for a co-ownership general meeting; or generate a compliant invoice.

There is also a chained workflow. Asking the agent to run the annual close triggers four skills in sequence: current bookkeeping and the annual close (comptable), then an audit (commissaire-aux-comptes), then a simulated tax audit (controleur-fiscal), so the whole accounting cycle from raw transactions to a review-checked, audit-tested set of accounts is covered in one flow. That chaining is the clearest demonstration of the value: individual skills are useful, but the point is that they hand off to each other across a real French accounting cycle.

Qonto and Stripe integrations

Paperasse includes connectors to pull financial data in automatically, so you are not copying transactions by hand. There is a Qonto connector for bank transactions and a Stripe connector for online payments, configured through an .env file and a company configuration. The .env.example shows the shape: a Qonto organisation ID and API secret, and one or more Stripe secret keys, with support for several Stripe accounts and for Stripe Connect platform keys.

Those are live financial credentials, so the usual care applies: keep the .env out of version control and off shared machines, and prefer scoped keys where the provider allows. The connectors are what let the comptable skill work from your real transactions rather than a sample file, which is where the tool saves the most time, but they also mean Paperasse is touching your actual banking and payment data, so treat the setup with the seriousness that implies.

Accuracy, licence and the professional caveat

The README reports an evaluation of 88% with the skill versus 75% without, a +13% improvement, and the deterministic calculations are backed by Node scripts with their own tests (test:calc). That is a reasonable signal that the skills help, but two things follow. First, an 88% eval is not 100%: the skills can still be wrong, and French tax and accounting rules change, so outputs need checking. Second, and more important, accounting, tax filing, audit opinions and notarial and succession matters carry legal and financial consequences that an AI copilot cannot bear.

So the right framing is the one the tool's own role names imply: Paperasse gives you an expert-sounding draft, a simulated audit, a calculated fee or a prepared filing, but a qualified expert-comptable, commissaire aux comptes, notaire or fiscaliste should review anything you act on. The project is MIT licensed, at version 1.1.0, with the last push on 2026-08-10, and it is a genuinely useful accelerator for French paperwork, as long as it is used as a copilot and not as the final authority.

Editorial conclusion

Consider Paperasse if you handle French company or personal paperwork and use an AI coding agent, and treat it as an expert copilot rather than a filing authority. Install it via agentskill.sh or by pointing your agent at the GitHub repo, run the guided setup, and connect Qonto and Stripe if you want transactions pulled in automatically. Always have a qualified professional review anything with legal or tax consequences.

Frequently asked questions

Official sources

1. Issues
2. License: MIT
3. Project website
4. README
5. romainsimon/paperasse on GitHub