actual_budgets_getMonth

What actual_budgets_getMonth does on Actual

AI agents call actual_budgets_getMonth to retrieve information from Actual without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why actual_budgets_getMonth is rated Low

This tool queries and retrieves budget information for a specified month. It performs a read-only operation with no side effects, no data creation, modification, deletion, or financial transaction execution. The 'Get' operation is a standard retrieval pattern. Even though the server manages financial data, this tool itself only accesses/reads it, so it falls under Read category with low severity.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'actual_budgets_getMonth' and description 'Get budget data for a specific month' — uses the verb 'Get' which retrieves data without modification.

The rule that runs actual_budgets_getMonth safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Actual, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For actual_budgets_getMonth, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "actual_budgets_getMonth": {}
  }
}

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