query-budget

Queries the user's Actual Budget instance for accounts, balances, transactions, and budget data using the official `@actual-app/cli` CLI.

<quick_start>

/actual-budget:query-budget                           # list accounts with balances
/actual-budget:query-budget transactions Checking     # recent transactions
/actual-budget:query-budget budget 2026-03            # budget vs actual for March
/actual-budget:query-budget summary                   # financial snapshot
/actual-budget:query-budget bank-sync                 # sync all accounts

</quick_start>

Parse `env=` from `$ARGUMENTS` before any other processing. Strip it from remaining arguments. Default to `""` (empty string). Credential file: `~/.claude/channels/actual-budget/${ENV}.env`. Omit `env=` from suggested commands when ENV is empty.

Check that ~/.claude/channels/actual-budget/${ENV}.env exists. If not, tell the user to run /actual-budget:configure-actual first.

Read `/../../references/cli-setup.md` and follow the CLI setup instructions to obtain `$ACTUAL`.

To resolve an account, category, or payee name to its ID:

$ACTUAL server get-id --type accounts --name "<name>" --format json
$ACTUAL server get-id --type categories --name "<name>" --format json

Parse the first word of `$ARGUMENTS` (after stripping `env=`) as the subcommand.

No arguments or accounts — list accounts with balances:

$ACTUAL accounts list --format json

For each account, fetch its balance:

$ACTUAL accounts balance <id> --format json

Display a clean table: Account Name | Type | Balance.

transactions [account-name-or-id] [limit] — recent transactions:

Resolve the account name to an ID, then:

$ACTUAL transactions list --account <id> --start <YYYY-01-01> --end <today> --format json

Default limit: 20. Display: Date | Payee | Category | Amount.

budget [month] — budget vs actual for a month:

Month format: YYYY-MM (default: current month).

$ACTUAL budgets month <month> --format json

Display a table: Category | Budgeted | Spent | Remaining.

summary — overall financial snapshot:

Run account balances and current month budget, then display:

• Total assets, total liabilities, net worth (sum of all account balances)
• Top 5 over-budget categories this month

$ACTUAL accounts list --format json         # get all account IDs
$ACTUAL accounts balance <id> --format json  # for each account
$ACTUAL budgets month --format json          # current month budget

bank-sync [account-name-or-id] — trigger bank sync:

# Sync all accounts:
$ACTUAL server bank-sync

# Sync a specific account (resolve name to ID first):
$ACTUAL server bank-sync --account <id>

Display: Synced: <account name or "all accounts"> on success, or the error on failure.

If syncing all accounts and one fails, try syncing each account individually and report which succeeded and which failed.

<success_criteria>

• Accounts displayed as a clean table with balances
• Transactions show date, payee, category, and amount
• Budget view shows budgeted vs spent vs remaining per category
• Bank sync reports success per account or surfaces errors per account </success_criteria>