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AI agents for YNAB

Read YNAB (You Need A Budget) plans, accounts, categories, monthly budgets and transactions, add, edit and delete transactions, and assign money to a category for a month, with a YNAB personal access token.

Actions
10
Read
6
Write
4

Actions

What your agents can do in YNAB

10 actions. Each one is a tool your agents can call and a step your workflows can run.

Read 6

Look things up. Nothing changes.

  • Get the user

    Reads the YNAB user the token belongs to (data.user.id).

  • List plans (budgets)

    Lists the user's plans (what YNAB used to call budgets): each with id, name, last_modified_on, first_month, last_month and currency_format, plus default_plan.

  • List accounts

    Lists a plan's accounts (checking, savings, credit cards, loans, tracking).

  • List categories

    Lists a plan's category groups and their categories for the current month.

  • Get a budget month

    Reads one month of a plan: income, budgeted, activity, to_be_budgeted (Ready to Assign) and age_of_money, and every category's assigned, spent and available amounts for that month.

  • List transactions

    Lists a plan's transactions from a date on (and up to an end date), or only the uncategorized or unapproved ones.

Write 4

Create, change or send.

  • Add a transaction

    Adds a transaction to an account: date (today or earlier), amount in milliunits (negative for spending, like -12500 for 12.50 out; positive for income), and a payee by id or by name.

  • Edit a transaction

    Changes an existing transaction by id: its date, amount, payee, category, memo, cleared status, approval or flag.

  • Delete a transactionDeletes data

    Deletes a transaction by id.

  • Assign money to a category

    Sets how much is assigned (budgeted) to a category in a month, in milliunits (like 400000 for 400.00).

A person can approve first

Any write action can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs, so an agent asks before it changes anything. Actions that delete data ask first by default.

Connection

How it connects

Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.

API key

Paste an API key from your YNAB account.

What you enter

  • Personal access token

Kept safe

  • Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
  • They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
  • Calls go only to the tool's own servers.

How we protect your data

Ideas

Ideas to start with

Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.

  • 01

    Ask about your YNAB data

    Ask a question in plain words. The agent can get the user, list plans (budgets) or list accounts in YNAB, then answers with what it found.

  • 02

    Let an agent update YNAB

    Have the agent add a transaction or assign money to a category in YNAB as part of a larger task. Turn on approval and a person signs off on each change first.

  • 03

    Share what it finds in Slack

    Give one agent YNAB and Slack: it can get the user in YNAB and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.

FAQ

YNAB and MyDeepAgents

Can MyDeepAgents connect to YNAB?

Yes. The YNAB connector has 10 actions: 6 read and 4 make changes. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.

How do I connect YNAB?

Paste an API key from your YNAB account. You'll need: Personal access token. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.

Can an agent change data in YNAB without asking?

Only if you let it. Each of the 4 actions that change data can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs, and the one that deletes data asks first by default.

Can I use YNAB in workflows as well as agents?

Yes. Every YNAB action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.

Early access

Put YNAB to work

Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.