Get a spending summary by category for a specific period. Great for understanding where money is going.
AI agents call get_spending_summary 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 aggregates existing financial data (spending summary by category) without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It has no side effects and poses minimal security risk beyond potential data exposure. Classification as Read is appropriate for a query that surfaces historical spending analytics.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_spending_summary' and description 'Get a spending summary by category for a specific period' indicate a retrieval operation with no data modification.
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Get a spending summary by category for a specific period. Great for understanding where money is going. 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_spending_summary: 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_spending_summary 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_spending_summary 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_spending_summary. 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_spending_summary 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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