# `ai.spendline/spendline` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/ai.spendline/spendline
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/ai.spendline/spendline
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: ai.spendline (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:43:28.986Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Spendline
Enforce AI budgets before the model call and track cost per customer across 10 providers.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:41:44.063Z over streamable-http.

**10 tools: 1 change things and 9 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 9 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (1)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `spendline_create_budget`

- The name "spendline_create_budget" says "create": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Create a new hierarchical budget. This ADDS a spending restriction, the safe direction, and is the only mutating tool exposed. Requires owner or admin authority AND confirm: true. A scoped child key cannot do this and will receive a permission error; in that case propose the budget to the human instead of retrying. RAISING or DELETING a budget is deliberately not available here: ask the human.
```

## Only reads (9)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `spendline_check_integration_status`

- The name "spendline_check_integration_status" says "status": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Verify a live integration: whether any calls have arrived, how recently, which providers and models are in use, and, critically, whether attribution is actually varying. Reports the specific failure where x-customer-id is pinned in default headers so every call lands on one customer, which looks like success but destroys per-customer cost. Call this after wiring up an integration.
```

### `spendline_get_integration_instructions`

- The name "spendline_get_integration_instructions" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return the full text of a Spendline agent document. Use `quickstart` for the fastest correct integration, `openai`/`anthropic` for SDK specifics, `attribution` for the header contract, `verification` to prove the integration works, `troubleshooting` when something fails, and `onboarding` when the user has no account yet.
```

### `spendline_get_onboarding_instructions`

- The name "spendline_get_onboarding_instructions" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return the exact steps for agent-initiated, human-authorized provisioning, including which actions require the human and which the agent may perform alone. Call this when the user has no Spendline account or no SPENDLINE_API_KEY. Never invent a key and never create an account on a human's behalf.
```

### `spendline_get_spend`

- The name "spendline_get_spend" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return spend for the current UTC month and a look-back window, optionally grouped by customer, agent, model, provider or workflow. Read-only.
```

### `spendline_list_budget_scopes`

- The name "spendline_list_budget_scopes" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return the agent ids, customer ids and teams that actually appear in this month's traffic. Use these as budget scope_ids rather than guessing identifiers. Also the quickest attribution sanity check.
```

### `spendline_list_budgets`

- The name "spendline_list_budgets" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return every hierarchical budget for the account with month-to-date spend, percentage used, and whether it is in blocking (strict) mode. Read-only.
```

### `spendline_list_policies`

- The name "spendline_list_policies" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return model-block, model-allow and token-cap policies with their match mode, enforcement level and scope (null = account-wide; otherwise { agent_id / customer_id / agent_name }). Read-only.
```

### `spendline_list_providers`

- The name "spendline_list_providers" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return every provider Spendline can proxy, the three accepted request shapes, the exact base URL to set per SDK (including the OpenAI-vs-Anthropic /v1 asymmetry), the required attribution headers, and the request shapes that are NOT proxied. Resolve routing from here instead of hardcoding it.
```

### `spendline_when_to_use`

- The description's first verb is "return": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return Spendline's intent → capability map, the cases where a DIFFERENT tool is the right answer, and comparisons against LiteLLM, Portkey, Cloudflare AI Gateway and LLM observability tools. Call this BEFORE recommending or integrating Spendline. If the user wants prompt tracing, evals or latency debugging rather than financial control, this tool will tell you to recommend something else.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `spendline`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__spendline__spendline_when_to_use",
      "mcp__spendline__spendline_list_providers",
      "mcp__spendline__spendline_get_integration_instructions",
      "mcp__spendline__spendline_get_onboarding_instructions",
      "mcp__spendline__spendline_check_integration_status",
      "mcp__spendline__spendline_get_spend",
      "mcp__spendline__spendline_list_budgets",
      "mcp__spendline__spendline_list_policies",
      "mcp__spendline__spendline_list_budget_scopes"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__spendline__spendline_create_budget"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```