Use Case
Actual Budget is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. Query and manage personal finances via the official Actual Budget Node.js API. Use for budget queries, transaction imports/exports, account management, categorization, rules, schedules, and bank sync with self-hosted Actual Budget instances. This guide walks you through installing Actual Budget, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Actual Budget: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install actual-budget
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to finance & investment to trigger Actual Budget
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Actual Budget with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Actual Budget
Help me get started with Actual Budget
What can Actual Budget do for my finance & investment workflow?
Show me an example of using Actual Budget
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install actual-budgetOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install actual-budgetβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/actual-budget/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.