Integration
Connect Parallel and YNAB
When Parallel Event fires in Parallel, your agent runs Create Transaction in YNAB, or Goal Completed in YNAB to Add contact in Parallel. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.
What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.
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What do you want Parallel and YNAB to do together?
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Claude Code
Run this in the directory you want to work in.
claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.aiStart Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.
Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)Claude, web and desktop
Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)Cursor
Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)Zed
Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app
Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)Grok
Open grok.com/connectors, choose New Connector, then Custom, and paste the address. Grok signs you in in your browser.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)Any other MCP client
Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.
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What Parallel and YNAB can do together
From Parallel to YNAB
When Parallel Event in Parallel
then Create Transaction in YNAB
From YNAB to Parallel
Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.
Everything your agent can do with Parallel and YNAB
Triggers and actions 15 triggers · 22 actions
- Parallel Event
Triggers when a new parallel is created.
- Add contact
Creates a contact in your Parallel organization.
- Comment on a Parallel
Posts a general comment on a parallel.
- Create Draft
Creates a draft parallel from a template.
- Delete parallel
Deletes a parallel, optionally even when it is shared with other users.
- Delete profile
Permanently deletes a profile. The profile must already be closed or scheduled for deletion.
- Export Parallel
Exports a parallel's replies and returns a temporary download link.
- Find a Parallel
Returns a parallel by its ID.
- Get contact
Returns a contact's details, including name and email.
- List contacts
Returns the contacts in your Parallel organization.
- List parallel recipients
Returns the recipients a parallel has been sent to, with each recipient's contact, status and reminder details.
- List profiles
Returns the profiles in your Parallel organization, optionally filtered by name, profile type or status.
- List templates
Returns the list of Parallel templates you have access to, optionally filtered by tags.
- List users
Returns the members (users) of your Parallel organization.
- Remind parallel recipient
Sends a reminder email to a recipient of a parallel asking them to complete it, optionally with a custom message.
- Rename Parallel
Renames a parallel.
- Send a Parallel
Sends a parallel to one recipient by email.
- Send Multiple
Sends a parallel to several recipients at once.
- Tag Parallel
Adds a tag to a parallel.
- Category Overspent
Triggers when a category is overspent and has a negative balance.
- Goal Completed
Triggers when a goal is completed.
- Low Account Balance
Triggers when a Checking or Savings account balance drops below a certain amount during a month.
- Low Category Balance
Triggers when a category balance drops below a certain amount.
- New Account
Triggers when a new account is created.
- New Category
Triggers when a new category is created.
- New or Updated Account
Triggers when a new account is created or an existing account is updated.
- New or Updated Category
Triggers when a new category is created or an existing category is updated.
- New or Updated Scheduled Transaction
Triggers when a scheduled transaction is created or updated.
- New or Updated Transaction
Triggers when a transaction is created or updated.
- New Payee
Triggers when a new payee is created.
- New Transaction
Triggers when a new transaction is created.
- Spending in Account
Triggers when a new outflow transaction is created in an account.
- Spending in Category
Triggers when a new outflow transaction is assigned to a category.
- Budget to a Category
Budgets to a category in the current month.
- Create Transaction
Creates a new transaction.
- Get Current Budget Month
Returns the current month of the last-used budget, including Age of Money, income, budgeted, activity, and to-be-budgeted amounts.
- Get Current Month Summary
Returns the current budget month's summary, including age of money, income, budgeted, activity, and to-be-budgeted amounts.
No trigger or action matches that. Ask your agent to add it: it reads the API documentation and builds what you describe.
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Questions
Parallel and YNAB, answered
What can start an automation from Parallel?
Any of Parallel's 1 trigger in the catalog, including Parallel Event. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.
What can your agent do in YNAB when something happens in Parallel?
Any of YNAB's 4 actions, including Create Transaction, Budget to a Category, Get Current Budget Month and Get Current Month Summary. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.
Can it also run from YNAB to Parallel?
Yes. When something happens in YNAB, your agent can act in Parallel too. This page covers both directions: YNAB's triggers and Parallel's actions are listed here as well.
Do I have to build a connector for Parallel or YNAB?
No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.
Can my AI client use Parallel and YNAB without building an automation?
Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both.
What happens when something fails?
Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.