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Actual Budget MCP Server for Zed

io.github.s-stefanov/actual-mcp

MCP server exposing Actual Budget accounts, transactions, budgets and reporting to LLM assistants.

client:Zed transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Actual Budget MCP Server in Zed

~/.config/zed/settings.json · windows: %APPDATA%\Zed\settings.json

Held in this page only — never stored, logged, or sent anywhere but back to your screen. 

{
  "context_servers": {
    "actual-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "actual-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ACTUAL_SERVER_URL": "<ACTUAL_SERVER_URL>",
        "ACTUAL_PASSWORD": "<ACTUAL_PASSWORD>",
        "ACTUAL_BUDGET_SYNC_ID": "<ACTUAL_BUDGET_SYNC_ID>",
        "ACTUAL_DATA_DIR": "<ACTUAL_DATA_DIR>",
        "ACTUAL_BUDGET_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD": "<ACTUAL_BUDGET_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD>",
        "ACTUAL_SYNC_TTL_MS": "<ACTUAL_SYNC_TTL_MS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Merge this into your existing settings object — do not replace the file. Zed docs

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