# YNAB

> Use this tool when you need to manage your personal finances through AI assistants, enabling natural language interactions with your You Need A Budget (YNAB) data for budget inquiries, expense tracking, and financial analysis. It solves problems of manual data entry and direct interface access, allowing for seamless integration of budgeting data into AI-powered workflows. This tool is ideal for users seeking to optimize their financial planning, monitoring, and budget optimization tasks through automated and voice-controlled interactions.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/jtewen-ynab  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jtewen-ynab

## Description

This YNAB MCP server by Jtewen provides integration with You Need A Budget's API for personal finance management through AI assistants. The implementation enables users to interact with their YNAB budgets, accounts, transactions, and categories using natural language, allowing for budget inquiries, expense tracking, and financial data analysis without directly accessing the YNAB interface. Built for users who want to incorporate their personal budgeting data into AI-powered workflows for financial planning, expense monitoring, and budget optimization tasks.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 1.00
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-19

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** finance
- **Updated:** 2026-09-19

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/jtewen-ynab)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jtewen/ynab-mcp>

## 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": "jtewen-ynab"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jtewen-ynab` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jtewen-ynab/pull`

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