App

Connect You Need A Budget to any app

REST API for personal budgeting software, providing access to budgets, accounts, categories, transactions, and payees.

Connects with an API keyyouneedabudget.com

18 actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

Build solutions, not workarounds.

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https://mcp.apiant.ai

Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

Set it up in your client

Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

Claude Code guide

Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

Setup guide

Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

Setup guide

Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

Setup guide

Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

Setup guide

Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

Setup guide

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What your agent can do with You Need A Budget

Triggers and actions 18 actions

Action
Add account
Create an account.
Action
Add payee
Create a payee.
Action
Add scheduled transaction
Create a scheduled transaction.
Action
Add transaction
Create a transaction.
Action
Delete transaction
Delete a transaction.
Action
Get account
Get an account.
Action
Get plan
Get a plan with all entities.
Action
Get plan month
Get a plan month with category budgets.
Action
Get transaction
Get a transaction by id.
Action
Import transactions
Imports available transactions on all linked accounts for a plan, like clicking Import in YNAB.
Action
List accounts
List accounts in a plan.
Action
List categories
List categories grouped.
Action
List payees
List payees.
Action
List plans
List all plans (budgets).
Action
List scheduled transactions
List scheduled transactions.
Action
List transactions
List transactions for a plan (since_date, type filters).
Action
Update category
Update a category.
Action
Update transaction
Update a transaction.

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What can your agent do in You Need A Budget?

Any of You Need A Budget's 18 actions, including Update category, Update transaction, Add account and Add payee. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

Which apps can You Need A Budget connect to?

Any app in the catalog; the list on this page pairs You Need A Budget with each of them. If the other app is missing, point your agent at its API documentation and it builds the connector.

What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.