Use YNAB from Claude Code
Bring YNAB context into engineering work while Type keeps app access attached to the teammate and workspace.
AI agent integrationYNAB
YNAB integration for multiplayer collaboration with AI agents using Claude Code or Codex
One governed connection your whole team and its AI agents can share, with approved actions and human review, so working in YNAB never means pasting credentials into a prompt.
CategoryFinance & Accounting
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Finance & Accounting
What the YNAB integration exposes
YNAB (You Need A Budget) is a budgeting tool helping users track expenses, plan finances, and gain control over spending to reduce debt
One connection, many teammates
Connect YNAB once, then decide which teammates can use it for threads, automations, skills, and coding work.
Representative actions
- Create a new account in a budget
Tool to create a new account in a budget. Use when you need to add a manual (non-linked) account to a specific budget.
- Create Scheduled Transaction
Creates a scheduled (recurring) transaction in a YNAB budget. Use this to set up bills, recurring expenses, or income that repeats on a schedule. Requires an account_id (from YNAB_LIST_ACCOUNTS), a date, frequency, and amount in milliunits.
- Delete Scheduled Transaction
Permanently deletes a scheduled transaction from a YNAB budget. Use this when a recurring transaction is no longer needed. This action cannot be undone. Obtain the scheduled_transaction_id from list_scheduled_transactions or get_scheduled_transaction_by_id before calling this.
- Get Account by ID
Tool to retrieve a single account resource. Use when you need details of a specific account by its ID after determining the budget.
- Get Budget By ID
Retrieve a complete budget export by ID, including all accounts, categories, payees, and transactions. Use this tool when you need comprehensive budget data. The response includes: - Budget metadata (name, date/currency formats) - All accounts with balances - Category groups and categories with budgeted amounts and balances - All payees - All transactions and scheduled transactions (optional, may be large) For incremental syncing, use last_knowledge_of_server to only fetch changes since your last request. Note: Currency amounts are in 'milliunits' format (divide by 1000 for standard units).
Connection
API and auth details
YNAB offers a budgeting API for reading budgets, accounts, categories, payees, months, transactions, scheduled transactions, and server knowledge, plus creating or updating transactions for personal finance automation.
- Source
- Type catalog metadata
- Auth schemes
- OAuth
- API docs
- https://api.ynab.com/
- API reference
- https://api.ynab.com/v1
- Official site
- https://www.ynab.com/
FAQ
Questions people ask before connecting YNAB
Can Claude Code use YNAB?
Yes. Type lets an AI teammate use connected YNAB actions from a governed workspace context, so Claude Code work can reference the app without copying credentials into a local prompt.
Can Codex work with YNAB through Type?
Yes. Codex can collaborate through Type with app context, skills, and approved actions. The YNAB catalog entry includes public integration details and example capabilities where available.
Is this the same as a YNAB MCP server?
Type exposes connected app capabilities to AI teammates and coding agents through Type's integration layer. Teams use it when they want shared app access, human review, and teammate-level permissions around agent work.
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