# YNAB Budget MCP

> YNAB Budget MCP — orlando-villanueva-ynab-budget-mcp. Use this tool when you need to analyze and interact with YNAB budget data, solving problems such as expense tracking, financial planning, and account management. It provides a read-only interface for inspecting budgets, accounts, and transactions, with optional write capabilities for category assignments. Ideal for use cases requiring automated budget insights and updates, such as financial reporting and planning workflows.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/orlando-villanueva-ynab-budget-mcp  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/orlando-villanueva-ynab-budget-mcp

## Description

Provides a read-only interface to YNAB budget data, allowing AI assistants to inspect budgets, accounts, categories, transactions, and more. Includes an experimental guarded write workflow for category assignments.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.69
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-03

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** other
- **Updated:** 2026-09-03

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/eh5f2yfm4j)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Orlando-Villanueva/ynab-budget-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": "orlando-villanueva-ynab-budget-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/orlando-villanueva-ynab-budget-mcp` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/orlando-villanueva-ynab-budget-mcp/pull`

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