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Budgetary: estimate token spend for Zed

io.github.thriftell/budgetary

Pre-flight token-spend estimate (range, scenario, confidence) for a coding task, or an abstention.

client:Zed transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Budgetary: estimate token spend 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": {
    "budgetary": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@budgetary/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BUDGETARY_API_KEY": "<BUDGETARY_API_KEY>",
        "BUDGETARY_HOST": "<BUDGETARY_HOST>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

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