# Actual Budget MCP Server MCP Server

MCP server exposing Actual Budget accounts, transactions, budgets and reporting to LLM assistants.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## At a glance

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp)

**Package usage:** 1,439 npm downloads in the last 30 days.

**GitHub popularity:** 230 stars on [s-stefanov/actual-mcp](s-stefanov/actual-mcp), recorded 2026-09-13.

## Status

Pod has not dialled Actual Budget MCP Server yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `actual-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "actual-budget-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "actual-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Published as `actual-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "actual-budget-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "actual-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**32 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

### Most discussed

### Issues connecting `actual-mcp` to Actual Budget server (`ERR_INVALID_URL` / `out-of-sync-migrations`)

## Thanks 🙏

First of all, thank you for this project and all the work put into it!

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## Vision

I want to let my **Finance Agent (LibreChat)** access and manage my financial information in **Actual Budget** through **Actual MCP**.

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## Context / Background

* **Environment:** Synology NAS, Docker-based setup.

* Running three separate Docker networks/containers:

  * **LibreChat** – running, fully operational.
  * **Actual Budget** – running in a separate network, accessible and…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/25) · 2025-09-22 · open · external user · 6 comments

### Most recent

### create-rule rejects stage: null (the documented default-stage value) with 'Invalid rule stage: null'

## Summary

Calling `create-rule` with `stage: null` — the tool's own documented way to create a default-stage rule — fails with `Invalid rule stage: null`, even though both the tool's schema and Actual's underlying rule validator explicitly allow `null`.

## Expected behavior

A rule created with `stage: null` should succeed and be stored with the default stage, exactly like the `stage` Actual reports (as literal JSON `null`) for every pre-existing default-stage rule via `get-rules`. This is…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/213) · 2026-09-03 · open · external user · 0 comments

[See all 19 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/actual-budget-mcp-server/issues) — of 32 qualified upstream.

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  "query": "Actual Budget",
  "limit": 5
}
```

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