Skills/npm/monarch-money-mcp-server

monarch-money-mcp-server@0.0.13

VERIFIED

Publisher claims: "MCP server for Monarch Money — account, transaction, and budget management." Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Registry npm (MCP server) · listed in the official MCP RegistryPublisher pulsemcp · publishing for 506 daysInstalls 0Last detonated 20 h ago
$claude mcp add monarch-money-mcp-server -- npx -y monarch-money-mcp-server
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Coverage

Server started and answered tools/list.
Tested
MCP initialize and tools/list · every tool description, for hidden instructions · every file read, file written and host contacted by what ran
Not tested
what the tools do when called with real credentials

Before you give it your token

It will ask for
MONARCH_PASSWORDMONARCH_SESSION_TOKENConfiguration, not credentials: MONARCH_DISABLED_TOOLS, MONARCH_EMAIL, MONARCH_EMAIL_OTP, MONARCH_ENABLED_TOOL_GROUPS, MONARCH_ENABLED_TOOLS, MONARCH_SESSION_PASSPHRASE, MONARCH_STATE_DIR, MONARCH_TOTP
Where it talks to
no vendor host named in the codeAlso monarch.com — not the publisher's domain; check what for before connecting.
What the honeypot saw
no credential files read · no network
What we could not test
what the tools do when called with real credentials

Connect it with a scoped credential, under the guard, and read the third-party hosts first. The code names monarch.com as well as its own vendor. The guard injects MONARCH_PASSWORD, MONARCH_SESSION_TOKEN only into requests to the host you bind (and its subdomains) and refuses the rest.

$vet-skills run --net declared -- npx -y monarch-money-mcp-server

Never paste a credential into a chat, a ticket or a report, including ours. How the guard holds it.

Is [email protected] safe to install?

KillerSkills ran it in the KillerSkills honeypot sandbox (2 scenarios) on 2026-11-13 and scored it 86/100 (Verified). It did what it claims and nothing else we could detect: no undeclared network egress, no credential reads, no persistent instruction writes. Summary: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Behavior trace

Honeypot run · 27 s · 2 scenarios
t+CategoryObserved action
0.0sprocessno install scripts in bundle
6.8sprocessdependency install exit 0
27sfilesystemread ~/.monarch-money-mcp/session.enc outside project
27sclaimed23 tools: check_authentication, monarch_login_with_token, get_accounts, get_account_balance_history, set_account_balance_history, refresh_accounts, get_net_worth, get_transactions, get_transaction_details, create_transaction, update_transaction, delete_transaction, split_transaction, get_categories, get_tags, create_tag, delete_tag, get_transaction_rules, create_transaction_rule, update_transaction_rule, delete_transaction_rule, get_budgets, set_budget_amount
27stoolsabf844acf174315a
27stools8a367e28d1ef983b
27stools96491079fd2877c6
27stools347c20cf3d53cb75
27stools77f5568c7951192c
27stools66fa118ca78b4873
27stoolse92c622b65acc84b
27stoolse18e029d8c90d878
27stoolsb398e74cd117fdfa
27stoolsa7d862b6d0628940
27stools7002402713e99ab4
27stoolse906080c2294f32f
27stoolsb150ebe73d3a6e87
27stoolsefacc4db90dc1cdd
27stools3d90d6a32522e5f7
27stools49d5dc540133ab80
27stools6ced2ba9dc585172
27stools9bdb9ca466481082
27stools9f48f622ffe39be8
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27stools13834a16f9175cf9
27stoolsa513030defc1f112
27stools7561a3deefb9542d
27sprocessscript backend runs setup only
27sprocessno install scripts to re-run

Static findings

MEDIUM
File permission modification commandshared/monarch-client/session-store.js:1 · File permission modification command — agent changes file ownership/permissionsimport { mkdir, readFile, writeFile, chmod } from 'fs/promises';Fix: Request the narrowest permission that works; replace wildcards with the exact paths or hosts.
AST05
MEDIUM
File permission modification commandshared/monarch-client/session-store.js:82 · File permission modification command — agent changes file ownership/permissions// chmod is best-effort on platforms that don't support itFix: Request the narrowest permission that works; replace wildcards with the exact paths or hosts.
AST05

Cost to the agent

Instructions loaded
≈57 tok
1 file · 46 in bundle
Tool list per prompt
≈8,589 tok
23 tools · 373 per tool
Handshake
1519 ms
launch to tools/list, stdio
Undocumented tools
0
description under 20 chars · avg 998

Tokens estimated at four characters each. The tool list is re-read by the agent on every turn, so it is the number to compare between servers that do the same job: ranked across the index.

Known vulnerabilities

No advisories in OSV for monarch-money-mcp-server@0.0.13 as of 19 h ago. This is the package itself, not its dependencies.