BudgetLy
Set category budgets, log expenses, and visualize spending limits. Use when tracking grocery costs, monitoring subscriptions, or forecasting spend.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ckchzh/budgetlyBudgetLy
BudgetLy v2.0.0 — a personal finance toolkit for recording expenses, categorizing spending, checking balances, analyzing trends, forecasting budgets, and generating reports from the command line.
Why BudgetLy?
- Full-featured personal finance tracker with 12 specialized commands
- No external dependencies, accounts, or API keys needed — your data stays local
- All entries are timestamped and stored in plain-text log files
- Export to JSON, CSV, or TXT for analysis in spreadsheets or other tools
- Built-in search, statistics, and health-check utilities
- Works on any system with Bash
Commands
| Command | Usage | Description |
|---|---|---|
record | budgetly record <input> | Record a financial transaction or expense entry |
categorize | budgetly categorize <input> | Categorize a transaction (e.g., food, transport, rent) |
balance | budgetly balance <input> | Log or check account balance information |
trend | budgetly trend <input> | Log trend data for spending pattern analysis |
forecast | budgetly forecast <input> | Record a budget forecast or projection |
export-report | budgetly export-report <input> | Generate and log an export report entry |
budget-check | budgetly budget-check <input> | Check budget limits and log the result |
summary | budgetly summary <input> | Log a financial summary (daily, weekly, monthly) |
alert | budgetly alert <input> | Set or log a budget alert (overspend warnings, etc.) |
history | budgetly history <input> | Log or view financial history entries |
compare | budgetly compare <input> | Compare spending across periods or categories |
tax-note | budgetly tax-note <input> | Record tax-related notes and deductions |
stats | budgetly stats | Show summary statistics across all log files |
export | budgetly export <fmt> | Export all data (json, csv, or txt) |
search | budgetly search <term> | Search across all log files for a keyword |
recent | budgetly recent | Show the 20 most recent history entries |
status | budgetly status | Health check — version, entry count, disk usage |
help | budgetly help | Show the help message with all commands |
version | budgetly version | Print the current version |
All entry commands (record, categorize, balance, trend, forecast, export-report, budget-check, summary, alert, history, compare, tax-note) work the same way:
- With arguments: saves a timestamped entry to
<command>.logand logs tohistory.log - Without arguments: displays the 20 most recent entries from that command's log
Data Storage
All data is stored in ~/.local/share/budgetly/:
record.log,categorize.log,balance.log, etc. — one log file per commandhistory.log— unified activity log across all commandsexport.json/export.csv/export.txt— generated export files
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{
"plugins": {
"official-ckchzh-budgetly": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
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