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Zero Core Budget MCP Server

io.github.meltingpixelsai/zero-core-budget
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Zero Core Budget is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. 17 installs a week from npm. It exposes 6 tools.

Agent spending mgmt, budget tracking, ROI. Zero Core Budget.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Installs per day peak 8 · avg 2 · -6% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 41 hours of history
41 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
367 ms
Response time
average over 24h
17
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add zero-core-budget --transport http https://budget.rugslayer.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zero-core-budget": {
      "url": "https://budget.rugslayer.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.zero-core-budget]
url = "https://budget.rugslayer.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zero-core-budget": {
      "url": "https://budget.rugslayer.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zero-core-budget": {
      "url": "https://budget.rugslayer.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

health
health
Check Harvey Budget server status, uptime, and payment network configuration.
register
register_agent
Register an agent with daily and weekly budget limits. Free tool - call this before using check_spend or report_spend. Upserts if agent already exists.
report
report_spend
Record a completed spend with optional outcome tracking. Call this AFTER paying for a service to track spending and build ROI history.
spend
check_spend
Pre-spend budget approval check. Verifies daily/weekly/category limits, estimates ROI from historical data, and suggests cheaper alternatives. Call this BEFORE paying for any service.
spending
get_spending_report
Detailed spending analytics report. Returns total spent, category breakdown, top services with ROI, and optimization recommendations. Use to understand spending patterns and find inefficiencies.
tools
list_tools
List all available Harvey Budget tools with pricing and input requirements. Use this for discovery.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://budget.rugslayer.com/mcp streamable-http answering 431 ms 0 min ago

Zero Core Budget — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Zero Core Budget do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_spend, get_spending_report, health, list_tools, register_agent, report_spend. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Zero Core Budget working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 367 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is Zero Core Budget still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
How do I connect Zero Core Budget?
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 is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Zero Core Budget need an API key?
No. Zero Core Budget completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Zero Core Budget?
It answers our handshake in 367 ms on average, which is faster than 38% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Zero Core Budget?
The npm package @meltingpixels/zero-core-budget was installed 17 times in the last week. Week over week that is -6%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.