MCP Server for YNAB

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MCP Server for YNAB runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 181 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 4 Oct 2026.

Connect your AI assistant to YNAB. Read-only by default, with reversible opt-in writes.

Installs per day peak 59 · avg 24 · -8% w/w

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181

Installs / week

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4 Oct 2026

Last commit

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Apache-2.0

License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MCP Server for YNAB every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp-server-for-ynab -- uvx mcp-server-for-ynab

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-for-ynab": {
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-for-ynab"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp-server-for-ynab]
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcp-server-for-ynab"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-for-ynab": {
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-for-ynab"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-for-ynab": {
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-for-ynab"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: YNAB_API_KEY (YNAB personal access token from app.ynab.com/settings/developer.), YNAB_PLAN_ID (Default plan (budget) id, so tools do not need it passed on every call.), YNAB_ALLOW_WRITES (Set to 1 to register the write tools. Unset means read-only, and the write tools are absent from tools/list entirely.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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MCP Server for YNAB — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Server for YNAB?

MCP Server for YNAB runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package mcp-server-for-ynab was installed 181 times last week.

How do I connect MCP Server for YNAB?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls mcp-server-for-ynab straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use MCP Server for YNAB?

The pypi package mcp-server-for-ynab was installed 181 times in the last week. Week over week that is -8%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is MCP Server for YNAB open source?

Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python and 2 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.