Is Budgetary: estimate token spend safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Budgetary: estimate token spend on public evidence — tashan score 66.0/100, it is currently active, note: a single primary maintainer (bus-factor risk), no known advisories against the current release. Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install Budgetary: estimate token spend?

In Claude Code: run `claude mcp add budgetary -- npx -y @budgetary/mcp`. In Cursor / Claude Desktop, add it to mcp.json / claude_desktop_config.json.

Who maintains Budgetary: estimate token spend?

source: thriftell/budgetary-clients.

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Budgetary: estimate token spend

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

Works with: Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cline, Windsurf, VS Code (installable)
installable: each client documents how to load an MCP server of this type — that is the client's promise, not a claim verified against this capability

Install (Claude Code):

claude mcp add budgetary -- npx -y @budgetary/mcp

tashan score: 66.0
Adoption: 850/wk
Upkeep: 69.0
Freshness: 96.0
Evidence coverage: 100% of the inputs this score can use
Health: active
License: Apache-2.0

Security audit

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No known advisoriesclearchecked against OSV for 0.13.0 — this package, not its dependency tree

No access inferred from declared dependenciesnothing it depends on reaches files, shell or network. This reads declarations only — built-in APIs are invisible to it, so absence of a declaration is not absence of access

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