ynab-income-change-prep

ynab-income-change-prep is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from auzroz/ynab-mcp. It costs 90 tokens per session (829 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A YNAB planning skill for preparing for a known or likely future drop in income, such as parental leave, a layoff, retirement, or returning to school.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to estimate the income gap, prepare a dedicated budget category, and adjust spending ahead of the transition.
Why use it?
It helps build an income-replacement fund and practise living on the reduced budget before the change happens.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to estimate the income gap, prepare a dedicated budget category, and adjust spending ahead of the transition.

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Any agent
npx skills add auzroz/ynab-mcp --skill ynab-income-change-prep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/auzroz/ynab-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 829 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 $0.00090 $0.00829
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00415
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00083

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7dccafb8db7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ynab-income-change-prep 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-income-change-prep/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YNAB Income Change Prep

What this does

Helps prepare financially for a known or reasonably anticipated upcoming income change — parental leave, layoff risk, retirement, a return to school — by building a dedicated Income Replacement category ahead of time and practicing on the reduced budget before the change actually happens.

When to use this skill

  • "I'm going on parental leave, how do I prepare?"
  • "I might get laid off"
  • "I'm planning to retire in a year"
  • "How do I prepare for a pay cut?"
  • "Help me plan for reduced income"

Should NOT trigger on: ongoing month-to-month income variability with no single anticipated change (use ynab-irregular-income-planner), or a cushion against unnamed/general risk (use ynab-emergency-fund-builder).

Workflow

Step 1: Quantify the gap

Establish the expected reduced income (or $0, for leave/layoff) and how long the reduced period is expected to last. For job-loss risk specifically, treat the duration as unknown and plan conservatively.

Step 2 (if MCP-connected): Establish the real baseline

Call MCP tool: ynab_income_expense — current income/spending baseline Call MCP tool: ynab_budget_vs_actuals — category-level detail to distinguish trim-able vs. protect

Step 3: Build a dedicated Income Replacement category

Fund it ahead of time, sized to bridge the anticipated gap. This is distinct from the general emergency fund — it's specifically earmarked for this known change.

Step 4: Categorize trim vs. protect

Go category by category: which spending gets cut during the reduced-income period, and which stays protected (housing, insurance, minimum debt payments). For job-loss risk specifically, flag two commonly-missed costs: COBRA/health coverage and job-search expenses — both tend to appear right when income drops, which is exactly the wrong time to discover them.

Step 5: Practice-run the reduced budget

Recommend running the trimmed budget for a few months before the actual change, if there's lead time — this surfaces problems with the plan while there's still full income to patch them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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 · 90 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 7dccafb8db7a

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ynab-income-change-prep is a skill published in the GitHub repository auzroz/ynab-mcp (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 829 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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