Agent skill · software engineering · mvanhorn
pp-lunch-money
A Go CLI for Lunch Money's official v2 OpenAPI — offline SQLite store, subscription detection, and bulk smart... Trigger phrases: `categorize my transactions`, `find duplicate charges`, `subscription audit`, `what's my budget burn`, `net worth at a date`, `use lunch-money-pp`, `run lunch-money`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds executable commands for transaction management and subscription auditing that are not available in the Lunch Money API documentation.
What it needs
Requires lunch-money-pp-cli installed locally. About 13k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Lunch Money — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the lunch-money-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: lunch-money-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer): If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. When to Use This CLI Use this CLI when you need to bulk-fix transactions, audit subscriptions or recurring items, reconcile net worth across Plaid + manual + crypto accounts, or expose Lunch Money to agent workflows. Especially valuable for Sunday-morning budgeting rituals (triage, retag, budget burn-down), end-of-month asset snapshots (manual account updates, balance history upserts), and expense-report assembly (transactions list --tag, attachment exports). Avoid it for one-off web-UI exploration — that's what lunchmoney.app is for. Unique Capabilities These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API. Local-join transcendence transactions subscriptions — Find regular-cadence merchant charges that are not yet linked to a recurring item, so you can promote them before subscription creep sneaks past you. When a user asks 'what subscriptions are draining my account?', this surfaces unlabeled recurring charges in one local SQL pass. recurring missing — List recurring items whose next expected date falls in the requested month but have no matching transaction yet, so you can catch missed bills. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/pp-lunch-money--fa9ec4