Get the budget summary for a specific month, including budgeted amounts, spending, and remaining balance for each category.
AI agents call get_budget_month to retrieve information from Actual Budget MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries budget data (budgeted amounts, spending, remaining balance) for a specific month without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a read-only data retrieval operation.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_budget_month' and description 'Get the budget summary for a specific month, including budgeted amounts, spending, and remaining balance for each category' indicate a retrieval operation with no modification of data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get the budget summary for a specific month, including budgeted amounts, spending, and remaining balance for each category. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Actual Budget MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Actual Budget MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_budget_month: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Actual Budget MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_budget_month is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the get_budget_month rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for get_budget_month. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
get_budget_month is provided by the Actual Budget MCP Server MCP server (yhc0712/actual-budget-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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