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virattt/dexter

Dexter is an autonomous financial research agent that plans tasks, executes them with real-time market data, and self-validates until it produces a data-backed answer. It can access income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements to answer natural-language financial questions.

Project overview

By combining task decomposition, autonomous tool execution, and self-validation over live financial data, Dexter addresses planning, data gathering, and validation work that manual financial research workflows handle poorly.

Project type: AI Agent · Data Processing
Use cases: Search & Research · Data Analysis
Deployment: Refer to project documentation
License: License pending

Best for

Users who research company fundamentals and want an agent to plan, gather live financial data, and validate answers for them.
Researchers and developers who want to run financial questions through an autonomous agent locally from source.

Key capabilities

Decomposes complex financial queries into structured research steps and selects and executes the right tools to gather financial data.
Access to income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.
Tests the agent against a dataset of financial questions using LangSmith tracking and LLM-as-judge scoring.

Limitations and risks

Dexter is not intended for real trading or investment; it is for educational, entertainment, and informational purposes only.
Outputs may be incorrect, incomplete, or out of date; verify data before relying on it.
Operation requires an OpenAI API key and a Financial Datasets API key, so running Dexter depends on these external services.

Getting started

Clone the repository (git clone https://github.com/virattt/dexter.git && cd dexter), install dependencies with bun install, copy env.example to .env and set API keys, then run bun start. Setup difficulty is medium.

Evidence and sources

README: Dexter is an autonomous financial research agent that thinks, plans, and learns as it works. It performs analysis using task planning, self-reflection, and real-time market data.…
README: Dexter takes complex financial questions and turns them into clear, step-by-step research plans. It runs those tasks using live market data, checks its own work, and refines the r…
README: Dexter includes an evaluation suite that tests the agent against a dataset of financial questions. Evals use LangSmith for tracking and an LLM-as-judge approach for scoring correc…
README: git clone https://github.com/virattt/dexter.git cd dexter
README: Run Dexter in interactive mode: ```bash bun start ```

Source updated at: 2026-11-09T18:25:42Z

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