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    {
      "Title": "Issues connecting `actual-mcp` to Actual Budget server (`ERR_INVALID_URL` / `out-of-sync-migrations`)",
      "Excerpt": "## Thanks 🙏\n\nFirst of all, thank you for this project and all the work put into it!\n\n---\n\n## Vision\n\nI want to let my **Finance Agent (LibreChat)** access and manage my financial information in **Actual Budget** through **Actual MCP**.\n\n---\n\n## Context / Background\n\n* **Environment:** Synology NAS, Docker-based setup.\n\n* Running three separate Docker networks/containers:\n\n  * **LibreChat** – running, fully operational.\n  * **Actual Budget** – running in a separate network, accessible and…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/25",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-09-22T15:16:02.000Z",
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      "Title": "update-transaction crashes MCP server when using payee_name parameter",
      "Excerpt": "## Bug\n\nCalling `update-transaction` with the `payee_name` parameter crashes the MCP server process. The server disconnects and must be reconnected. This happens consistently — every call with `payee_name` triggers the crash.\n\n## Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Call `update-transaction` with a valid transaction ID and a `payee_name` string (e.g., `\"payee_name\": \"Some Payee\"`)\n2. The MCP server process crashes with a connection closed error\n3. All subsequent tool calls fail until the server is…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/150",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-03T18:34:55.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Did you stop publishing docker image for linux/arm64?",
      "Excerpt": "I don't see it since tag [v1.2.0](https://hub.docker.com/layers/sstefanov/actual-mcp/v1.2.0/images/sha256-5872804240ec81c97adb9c21ef40ba90b27a3bae7c641468707d4c6d68917123) on the Docker hub https://hub.docker.com/r/sstefanov/actual-mcp/tags\n\n\n\n```\ndocker run\n```\n\nfails with error on Raspberry P 4\n```\nWARNING: The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was requested\nexec /usr/local/bin/node: exec format error…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/104",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-22T03:13:45.000Z",
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      "Title": "Image on Docker Hub is incompatible with non ARM hosts",
      "Excerpt": "Trying to run it with the following compose file, but faced with this error:\n\n```console\nactual_mcp The requested image's platform (linux/arm64/v8) does not match the detected host platform (linux/amd64/v3) and no specific platform was requested\n```\n\nIt seems only arm images are published on Docker hub (i'm on x64/amd)\n\n```yaml\nservices:\n  actual_server:\n    image: docker.io/actualbudget/actual-server\n    container_name: actual_server\n    env_file: actualbudget.env\n    ports:\n      - 5006:5006…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/21",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-09-09T18:25:51.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Compatibility issue with Actual Budget v26.7.0: out-of-sync-migrations",
      "Excerpt": "## Description\n\nWhen running actual-mcp against an Actual Budget server running v26.7.0, loading the budget fails with an `out-of-sync-migrations` error.\n\n## Environment\n\n- actual-mcp: Docker image `sstefanov/actual-mcp:latest`\n- Actual Budget server: v26.7.0\n- Transport: SSE\n- Configuration includes `ACTUAL_SERVER_URL` and `ACTUAL_BUDGET_SYNC_ID`\n\n## Error log\n\n```text\n[Breadcrumb] { message: 'Closing budget' }\nError updating Error: out-of-sync-migrations\n    at checkDatabaseValidity…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/189",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-16T13:54:41.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "ACTUAL_DATA_DIR on different host",
      "Excerpt": "My Actual installation is located on a different host, and thus the data directory is not directly accessible. Does this mean I am unable to use the mcp server?",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/188",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-15T18:43:27.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded — streamableTransport.onclose recurses via sessionServer.close() (Streamable HTTP)",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nWhen a Streamable HTTP session closes, the `streamableTransport.onclose` handler at [src/index.ts#L237-L243](https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/blob/v1.11.2/src/index.ts#L237) calls `sessionServer.close()`, which transitively calls `transport.close()`, which re-fires `streamableTransport.onclose`. Infinite recursion crashes the Node process with `RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded`. With `--restart` policies the container auto-recovers, but every client disconnect…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/170",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-20T22:25:46.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "out-of-sync-migrations against actual-server 26.5.0 (bundled api@26.3.0 too old)",
      "Excerpt": "## Repro\n\n1. Run actual-server 26.5.0 (current `latest`).\n2. Launch `sstefanov/actual-mcp:latest` (v1.11.2 on Docker Hub) with valid `ACTUAL_SERVER_URL` / `ACTUAL_PASSWORD` / `ACTUAL_BUDGET_SYNC_ID` (groupId form).\n3. Call `get-accounts` (or any tool requiring budget download).\n\n## Result\n\n```\nError updating Error: out-of-sync-migrations\n    at checkDatabaseValidity (.../@actual-app/api/dist/app/bundle.api.js:124664)\n    at migrate (...:124672)\n    at runMigrations (...:124680)\n    at…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/165",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-08T05:04:14.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "create-rule rejects stage: null (the documented default-stage value) with 'Invalid rule stage: null'",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nCalling `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`.\n\n## Expected behavior\n\nA 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…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/213",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-03T10:17:59.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "get-transactions requires accountId, unlike every other filtering tool in this server",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\n`get-transactions` requires `accountId` (`z.string()`, not optional), so there's no way to search transactions by payee/category across all accounts — every other filtering tool in this codebase supports that.\n\n## Expected behavior\n\nGiven a `payeeName`/`categoryName`/date-range filter, it should be possible to find matching transactions across all accounts without already knowing which account holds them — matching the pattern already established by `spending-by-category` and…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/212",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-03T10:17:43.000Z",
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      "Title": "`get-transactions` reports split-transaction parents as \"(Uncategorized)\" and omits subtransactions",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nWhen a transaction is a split (has child subtransactions), the `get-transactions` tool reports the parent row as `(Uncategorized)`. The child transactions and their categories are never shown, so the transaction appears uncategorized even though it is fully categorized across its subtransactions.\n\n## Expected behavior\n\nSplit transactions should not be reported as uncategorized. The tool should surface the subtransactions (each with its own category), for example by expanding the…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/208",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-14T00:00:09.000Z",
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      "Title": "Null `SYNC_SERVER` error when using data directory",
      "Excerpt": "When running `v1.12.0` with actual `v2026.7.0` it fails when use `ACTUAL_DATA_DIR`.\n\nThis error does not occur when using `ACTUAL_SERVER_URL`.\n\n```\n[Exception] TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'SYNC_SERVER')\n    at _fullSync (/app/node_modules/@actual-app/api/dist/index.js:63472:48)\n    at async /app/node_modules/@actual-app/api/dist/index.js:63402:14\n    at async initialFullSync (/app/node_modules/@actual-app/api/dist/index.js:63391:17)\n    at async Object.syncBudget [as…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/192",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-30T14:00:13.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "Compatibility issues with Actual Budget Server v26.6.0+ due to outdated @actual-app/api",
      "Excerpt": "### Description\nWith the release of Actual Budget Server v26.6.0+, databases are migrated to schemas that are incompatible with the older `@actual-app/api` version (`^26.5.0`) used in this repository. This causes the MCP server to crash on startup with an `out-of-sync-migrations` error when trying to load the budget.\n\n### Proposed Fix\nBump `@actual-app/api` and `@actual-app/core` to `^26.6.0` to ensure full compatibility with the latest migrations.\n\n---\n*This issue was identified and documented…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/181",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-16T04:11:25.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "get-transactions drops transfer_id, making transfer detection impossible client-side",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`get-transactions` returns a markdown table with columns `ID | Date | Payee | Category | Amount | Cleared | Notes`. The underlying Actual API (`@actual-app/api`) returns `transfer_id` on every transaction (set to the linked counterpart's id iff the row is part of a transfer), and `src/core/types/domain.ts` already declares `transfer_id?: string` on the `Transaction` interface — but `src/tools/get-transactions/transaction-mapper.ts` discards it before the response is built.\n\nAs a…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/168",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-17T11:04:52.000Z",
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      "Title": "Error when initially testing server connection: Authentication failed: too-many-requests",
      "Excerpt": "I followed the steps in the `README.md` to build the server and test it using `node build/index.js --test-resources`, but the output of that test shows: \n\n```bash\n➜  actual-mcp git:(main) node build/index.js --test-resources                       \nTesting resources...\nInitializing Actual Budget API...\nFailed to initialize Actual Budget API: Error: Authentication failed: too-many-requests\n    at Object.init…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/164",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-08T00:59:05.000Z",
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      "Title": "[Feature request] Account CRUD tools",
      "Excerpt": "### Background\n\n`@actual-app/api` exposes the full account-management surface  (`createAccount`, `updateAccount`, `closeAccount`, `reopenAccount`, `deleteAccount`), but none of these are available through `actual-mcp`. Agentic workflows that  need to set up or tidy accounts currently have to fall back to the web UI,  which breaks multi-step automation flows.\n\nThree of these tools were proposed previously in #102 (bundled with a v26  deps upgrade, since landed via #127). That PR was closed by…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/162",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-21T20:16:33.000Z",
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      "Title": "stdio: @actual-app/api debug logs on stdout break JSON-RPC parsing",
      "Excerpt": "## Description\n\nWhen running actual-mcp in stdio mode (e.g. from Claude Desktop), the `@actual-app/api` library writes debug and breadcrumb log lines directly to **stdout** during initialization and sync. Since the MCP stdio transport expects only valid JSON-RPC messages on stdout, the client fails to parse these lines.\n\nOn Claude Desktop (Windows), this results in visible error banners on every startup.\n\n## Errors\n\n```\nUnexpected token 'B', \"[Breadcrumb] {\" is not valid JSON\nUnexpected token…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/161",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-20T20:47:25.000Z",
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      "Title": "Streamable HTTP sessions block new connections (concurrency issue)",
      "Excerpt": "## Description\n\nWhen a Streamable HTTP session exists (from a prior client connection or diagnostic `curl` request), subsequent `initialize` requests to `/mcp` fail silently with a 500 Internal Server Error. This prevents new clients (e.g., Claude.ai Custom Connector) from connecting until the server is restarted.\n\n## Environment\n\n- **actual-mcp** v1.11.1\n- **@modelcontextprotocol/sdk** v1.27.1\n- Deployed via Podman (rootless) on Raspberry Pi 3 with Cloudflare Tunnel\n- Client: Claude.ai Custom…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/152",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-06T14:58:51.000Z",
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      "Title": "SSE transport crashes on second connection — single Server instance reused across all connections",
      "Excerpt": "# SSE transport crashes on second connection: \"Already connected to a transport\"\n\n## Description\n\nWhen running `actual-mcp` in SSE mode (`--sse`), the server crashes immediately when a second client opens an SSE connection. The MCP SDK's `Server` class requires a separate instance per connection, but the current SSE handler in `build/index.js` reuses a single `Server` instance across all connections.\n\nThis makes the SSE transport unusable with any MCP gateway or proxy that maintains multiple…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp/issues/143",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-15T16:32:21.000Z",
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