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MCP & AI Agent Integration

YNAB
automation.

5 AI agent actions for YNAB — callable from any MCP-compatible runtime, Claude, Cursor, or Cerebral OS workflow. Use YNAB to process payments, generate invoices, and manage financial workflows without human intervention. Full governance, audit trail, and dry-run safety on every execution.

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Live in production environments
<200ms median execution
Dry-run before production
Execution trace
live
5
actions
100%
governed
<200ms
latency
5
AI agent actions
2
Read operations
3
Write operations
0
High-risk actions (approval gated)
Finance & Payments YNAB is a Finance & Payments integration — use it to automate payments, invoicing, and financial operations from any AI agent or MCP-compatible runtime.
Actions

What you can do
with YNAB.

Every action below is available as an MCP tool and a verb in Cerebral OS — callable from any AI agent, Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, or your own runtime via the BYOA API. All executions are governed, audited, and dry-run safe.

Get Account
you_need_a_budget:get_account
Get an account specified by ID. See the docs
Read Low risk
List Accounts
you_need_a_budget:list_accounts
List all accounts for a specific budget. See the docs
Read Low risk
Create Transaction
you_need_a_budget:create_transaction
Creates a single transaction. See the docs
Write Medium risk
Update Category Budget
you_need_a_budget:update_category_budget
Update a category budget for a specific month. See the docs
Write Medium risk
Update Transaction
you_need_a_budget:update_transaction
Update an existing transaction. See the docs
Write Medium risk
MCP & Runtime API

Call YNAB
from any AI agent.

Any AI agent — Claude, Cursor, LangChain, AutoGen, or your own — can call YNAB actions through the Cerebral OS Runtime API. Governance, credentials, and audit trail fire automatically.

you_need_a_budget:get_account READ
# Call via Runtime API
curl
-X POST \
  "https://api.cerebralos.com/v1/runtime/actions/run"
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "verb": "you_need_a_budget:get_account",
    "args": {},
    "execution_id": "agent-001"
  }'
you_need_a_budget:create_transaction WRITE
# Dry-run first — no production risk
curl
-X POST \
  "https://api.cerebralos.com/v1/runtime/actions/run"
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "verb": "you_need_a_budget:create_transaction",
    "args": {},
    "execution_id": "agent-001",
    "metadata": {"dryRun": true}
  }'
Get your Runtime API key at app.cerebralos.com/signup — 1,000 free executions, no credit card required.
AI agent examples

What your AI agent
can do with YNAB.

Real patterns your AI agent can execute via MCP or the Runtime API. Every action governed, dry-run safe, and fully audited.

Trigger
AI agent needs YNAB data
Call you_need_a_budget:get_account via MCP or Runtime API
AI processes result and takes next action
Full execution logged to audit trail automatically
Trigger
Workflow needs to write to YNAB
Dry-run validates you_need_a_budget:create_transaction before execution
Approval gate fires if risk level is high
Action executes with full governance — logged, audited, reversible
Trigger
Payment or billing event
Sync to accounting system
Generate invoice
Alert finance team
How it works

Every YNAB action
governed end-to-end.

Cerebral OS isn't a connector. It's the execution layer that sits in front of YNAB — adding governance, dry-run safety, and a full audit trail to every operation.

Governance first
Every verb carries a risk classification. High-risk writes require explicit approval gates before they execute in production.
Dry-run safe
Simulate any YNAB action before it touches production. See exactly what would happen before a single real call is made.
Immutable audit trail
Every YNAB action is logged — what ran, what changed, who approved it, when it happened. Full history on every verb, forever.
Connect with

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alongside these.

Build multi-step workflows that connect YNAB to the rest of your stack. All governed. All audited.

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