Name: Manage YNAB budgets, accounts, categories, and transactions.
Author: Ayaan Zaidi

According to AlphaMoat, as of 2026-09, Manage YNAB budgets, accounts, categories, and transactions. has 3,696 downloads and 8 stars — ranked #2,909 of 5,078 AI skills overall, and #375 of 577 in Development.

Installs

133

Downloads

3.7K

Stars

Overall Rank

#2,909

Top 58% overall · Top 65% in Development

Platform	Installs	Downloads	Stars	Comments
ClawHub ↗	131	3.7K	8	1
SkillHub ↗	133	3.7K	8	—

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What this skill does

The skill can query budgets, accounts, categories, transactions, payees, and scheduled transactions, and includes write operations such as create, update, split, and delete. It requires a YNAB API key. Get explicit confirmation before changing or deleting live financial data.

Profile published 2026-10-29

What you can do with it

Users who want to review or manage YNAB budget and transaction data through a CLI.

When to use it

Use read operations to review accounts and transactions. Confirm the exact change before creating, updating, deleting, splitting, changing a budget, or posting a raw API request.

Example prompts

Generated from the skill’s documentation as examples; not results of actual runs.

Review my budgets and recent transactions in read-only mode; do not create, update, or delete anything.

Monthly Trend

Downloads3.7K

Stars8

The counting method changed in 2026-09: skills with the same name are now counted separately by author, and the full catalog is covered. Dashed lines show months before the change; they are not compared with later months, and no growth is computed across the change.

Month	Downloads	MoM	Stars
2026-09	3.7K	—	8
2026-08	3.6K	+4.3%	8
2026-07	3.4K	+8.7%	8
2026-06	3.2K	+4.5%	8
2026-05	3.0K	—	8
2026-03	2.4K	—	8

SKILL.md (original)

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2.0 KB · ClawHub v1.0.0

---
name: ynab
description: Manage YNAB budgets, accounts, categories, and transactions via CLI.
metadata: {"clawdbot":{"emoji":"💰","requires":{"bins":["ynab"],"env":["YNAB_API_KEY"]},"primaryEnv":"YNAB_API_KEY","install":[{"id":"node","kind":"node","package":"@stephendolan/ynab-cli","bins":["ynab"],"label":"Install ynab-cli (npm)"}]}}
---

# YNAB CLI

Install
```bash

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npm i -g @stephendolan/ynab-cli
```

Auth
```bash
# Get API key from https://app.ynab.com/settings/developer
# Then set YNAB_API_KEY env var, or:
ynab auth login
ynab auth status
```

Budgets
```bash
ynab budgets list
ynab budgets view [id]
ynab budgets set-default <id>
```

Accounts
```bash
ynab accounts list
ynab accounts view <id>
ynab accounts transactions <id>
```

Categories
```bash
ynab categories list
ynab categories view <id>
ynab categories transactions <id>
ynab categories budget <id> --month <YYYY-MM> --amount <amount>
```

Transactions
```bash
ynab transactions list
ynab transactions list --account <id> --since <YYYY-MM-DD>
ynab transactions list --approved=false --min-amount 100
ynab transactions search --memo "coffee"
ynab transactions search --payee-name "Amazon"
ynab transactions view <id>
ynab transactions create --account <id> --amount <amount> --date <YYYY-MM-DD>
ynab transactions update <id> --amount <amount>
ynab transactions delete <id>
ynab transactions split <id> --splits '[{"amount": -50.00, "category_id": "xxx"}]'
```

Payees
```bash
ynab payees list
ynab payees view <id>
ynab payees update <id> --name <name>
ynab payees transactions <id>
```

Months
```bash
ynab months list
ynab months view <YYYY-MM>
```

Scheduled
```bash
ynab scheduled list
ynab scheduled view <id>
ynab scheduled delete <id>
```

Raw API
```bash
ynab api GET /budgets
ynab api POST /budgets/{budget_id}/transactions --data '{"transaction": {...}}'
```

Notes
- Amounts are in your budget's currency, not milliunits
- Use `--compact` for minified JSON
- Rate limit: 200 req/hour
- Cannot create categories/groups/payees via API