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Budgetary: estimate token spend

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

thriftellthriftell/budgetaryUpdated Aug 10, 2026

server.json

{
  "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
  "name": "io.github.thriftell/budgetary",
  "description": "Pre-flight token-spend estimate (range, scenario, confidence) for a coding task, or an abstention.",
  "title": "Budgetary: estimate token spend",
  "repository": {
    "url": "https://github.com/thriftell/budgetary-clients",
    "source": "github",
    "subfolder": "clients/mcp"
  },
  "version": "0.13.0",
  "websiteUrl": "https://budgetary.tools",
  "packages": [
    {
      "registryType": "npm",
      "registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
      "identifier": "@budgetary/mcp",
      "version": "0.13.0",
      "transport": {
        "type": "stdio"
      },
      "environmentVariables": [
        {
          "description": "Budgetary API key (bg_live_ or bg_test_ prefix). Get one at https://budgetary.tools.",
          "isRequired": true,
          "format": "string",
          "isSecret": true,
          "name": "BUDGETARY_API_KEY"
        },
        {
          "description": "Optional tag naming the MCP host this server runs under — e.g. claude-code, cursor, codex, copilot. It labels each estimate with where it came from, and an explicit value overrides the host name the MCP handshake reports. Free-form; defaults to \"mcp\" when unset.",
          "format": "string",
          "name": "BUDGETARY_HOST"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Permissions

DeclaredDetected
Runs code—node
Installs—npm:@budgetary/mcp@0.13.0
Runs install scripts—None
NetworkNoneNone
Needs credentialsBUDGETARY_API_KEYBUDGETARY_API_KEY
Outside the workspace—None
Agent tools—None

Checks

Low risk · Nothing worth a warning was found.

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Versions

  1. #10.13.0latestOct 7, 2026