# Expense Tracker

> Use this tool when you need to manage personal finances and track expenses across various categories. It solves problems related to budgeting, spending analysis, and expense distribution by providing a database-driven system for adding, listing, and summarizing expenses. The tool takes in date, amount, and category details as inputs and outputs summaries and analyses to help individuals understand their spending patterns.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/campusx-expense-tracker  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/campusx-expense-tracker

## Description

Built by CampusX, this expense tracker provides personal finance management through a SQLite database backend with 20 predefined expense categories from food and transport to investments and taxes, each with relevant subcategories. It offers tools for adding expenses with date/amount/category details, listing expenses within date ranges, and generating category-based summaries for spending analysis. The implementation is valuable for individuals tracking personal spending patterns, analyzing monthly budgets, or understanding expense distribution across different life areas through natural language queries.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.97
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** database
- **Updated:** 2026-09-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/campusx-expense-tracker)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/campusx-official/expense-tracker-mcp-server>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "campusx-expense-tracker"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/campusx-expense-tracker` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/campusx-expense-tracker/pull`

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