ynab-big-goal-savings-planner

ynab-big-goal-savings-planner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from auzroz/ynab-mcp. It costs 92 tokens per session (774 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A YNAB planning skill for saving a set amount by a fixed date for a large one-time purchase or event.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan goals such as a house down payment, car, wedding, or sabbatical.
Why use it?
It turns a distant target into a required monthly contribution instead of leaving savings to whatever money remains.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan goals such as a house down payment, car, wedding, or sabbatical.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/auzroz/ynab-mcp/ynab-big-goal-savings-planner
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add auzroz/ynab-mcp --skill ynab-big-goal-savings-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/auzroz/ynab-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 774 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00092 $0.00774
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00387
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00077

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5583e05b1bf6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ynab-big-goal-savings-planner scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/ynab-big-goal-savings-planner/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YNAB Big Goal Savings Planner

What this does

Plans and funds a large, specific, one-time savings goal with a dollar target and timeline — house down payment, car, wedding, sabbatical — using YNAB's target-date goal mechanics, and frames the monthly contribution as non-negotiable alongside true expenses rather than "whatever's left over."

When to use this skill

  • "I'm saving for a house down payment"
  • "How much do I need to save monthly for X?"
  • "Help me set a savings target with a deadline"
  • "I want to buy a car in a year"

Should NOT trigger on: an open-ended safety-net fund with no fixed date (use ynab-emergency-fund-builder), or allocating this month's Ready to Assign across all goals at once (use ynab-assign-money).

Workflow

Step 1: Set the target amount and date

Establish the dollar target and target date. For a house down payment specifically, flag YNAB's guidance to add 5-10% on top of the down payment figure to cover closing costs — a very common shortfall if skipped.

Step 2: Calculate the required monthly contribution

Target amount ÷ months remaining = required monthly contribution. Frame this number as non-negotiable, the same way a true-expense category is — not something to fund only with leftover money at the end of the month.

Step 3 (if MCP-connected): Set it up and track it

Call MCP tool: ynab_create_category — a dedicated category for this goal Call MCP tool: ynab_goal_progress — using YNAB's "Have a balance of... by [date]" target-date goal type, distinct from an open-ended goal with no date

Step 4: Sanity-check against the rest of the budget

If the required monthly contribution looks unrealistic against current income/expenses, say so plainly and offer to either extend the timeline or reduce the target — don't let an unrealistic number stand unexamined.

Output format

Goal: [description] — $X target by [date]
  (if down payment: includes +5-10% for closing costs: $Y adjusted target)
Months remaining: N
Required monthly contribution: $Z
Feasibility check: [fits current budget / would require trimming elsewhere]

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 81 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 5583e05b1bf6

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ynab-big-goal-savings-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository auzroz/ynab-mcp (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 774 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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