Skill: 1kalin/afrexai-budget-planner (version 1.0.0)

# Budget Planner Plan and track budgets using your AI agent. Works for personal finance, project budgets, or department spending. ## What It Does - Creates structured budgets with categories, allocations, and actuals - Tracks spending against budget with variance analysis - Flags overspending early with threshold alerts - Generates monthly/quarterly budget reports - Supports multiple budget types (personal, project, department) ## Usage ### Create a Budget Tell your agent: "Create a monthly budget for [purpose] with a total of $[amount]" The agent will ask about categories and allocations, then create a structured budget file. ### Budget File Format Budgets are stored as markdown tables in your workspace: ```markdown # Budget: [Name] — [Period] Total: $X,XXX | Category | Allocated | Spent | Remaining | Status | |----------|-----------|-------|-----------|--------| | Rent | $1,500 | $1,500 | $0 | ✅ On track | | Food | $600 | $450 | $150 | ✅ Under | | Transport | $200 | $280 | -$80 | 🔴 Over | ``` ### Track Spending Tell your agent: "Log $45 under Food" or "I spent $280 on transport this month" ### Get Reports - "How's my budget looking?" — summary with variances - "Where am I overspending?" — flags problem categories - "Project my end-of-month spend" — extrapolates from current pace ### Alert Thresholds Default alerts: - ⚠️ **Warning** at 80% of category allocation - 🔴 **Over budget** when exceeded - 📊 **Weekly digest** if enabled ## Tips - Start with broad categories, refine over time - Review weekly — catching overspend early is the whole point - Use "rollover" for categories where unspent funds carry forward - Compare month-over-month to spot trends ## More Business Tools Get industry-specific AI agent context packs at [AfrexAI](https://afrexai-cto.github.io/context-packs/) — pre-built configurations that make your agent a domain expert from day one.

path: README.md
content: # Budget Planner 💰

Turn your AI agent into a budget tracker. Create budgets, log spending, get variance reports, and catch overspending before it becomes a problem.

Works for personal finance, project budgets, or department-level tracking.

## Features
- **Structured budgets** with categories and allocations
- **Spending tracking** with simple natural language ("spent $45 on food")
- **Variance analysis** — see where you're over/under at a glance
- **Threshold alerts** — warnings at 80%, flags when over
- **Monthly reports** with trend analysis

## Install
```
clawhub install afrexai-budget-planner
```

## Quick Start
1. "Create a monthly budget for $3,000"
2. "Log $1,500 for rent"
3. "How's my budget looking?"

That's it. Your agent handles the tracking, math, and reporting.

## Part of the AfrexAI Toolkit

Free skills that make AI agents actually useful:
- [Budget Planner](https://clawhub.com/skills/afrexai-budget-planner) (this one)
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- [SWOT Analyzer](https://clawhub.com/skills/afrexai-swot-analyzer)
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