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name: ask
description: Answer a question about the user's Clyde ledger, asked in their own words, such as "which payees did I pay most in January?" or "how much came in last month?".
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Look in `describe` topic recipes for a recipe that answers the question and run it with `query`; when none fits, write a `query` over the views. Dates, accounts, payees, or categories in the question narrow the answer. With no question given, ask what they would like to know.