@riseup-oss/mcp

Official MCP server for RiseUp — programmatic read-only access to your own cashflow data from Claude Desktop, Base44, the Claude Agent SDK, and other MCP clients.

Status: v0.1. The package returns real data via the RiseUp API.

What you can do with it

Once installed and configured, ask your AI assistant questions like:

• "What's my RiseUp budget for this month?"

• "Show me my budget for May 2026."

• "Compare my budget to last month."

The assistant calls the get_budget tool, which fetches your real cashflow data through RiseUp's Exposed API using a Personal Access Token (PAT) you created.

Related MCP server: actual-mcp-server

Installation

npm install -g @riseup-oss/mcp

Requires Node.js 18+.

Setup

1. Create a Personal Access Token

Visit RiseUp's developer tokens page, create a token, pick the budget:read scope, and copy it. It is shown only once.

The token looks like riseup_pat_<32-bytes-base64url>.

2. Configure your MCP client

Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json (on macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "riseup": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@riseup-oss/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "RISEUP_PAT": "riseup_pat_paste_your_token_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Fully quit Claude Desktop (Cmd+Q on macOS) and reopen — closing the window isn't enough. Claude Desktop reads claude_desktop_config.json only at startup, so any change to RISEUP_PAT or other env values needs a full restart to take effect. After restart, the get_budget tool should appear.

Claude Agent SDK

import { Claude } from '@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk';

const claude = new Claude({
  mcpServers: {
    riseup: {
      command: 'npx',
      args: ['-y', '@riseup-oss/mcp'],
      env: { RISEUP_PAT: process.env.RISEUP_PAT },
    },
  },
});

Environment variables

Tools (v0.2)

More tools (get_balances, get_cashflow) coming in future releases.

Documentation

Longer-form docs live in docs/:

• Quickstart — first API call in five minutes

• Authentication — token format, headers, revocation, the X-Riseup-Token-Ref correlation header

• Rate limits — limits, the 429 shape, how to handle it

• Errors — the full error catalog

• Budget reference — the three budget endpoints in detail

Security

• The PAT lives only in your local MCP client config — it is never sent to Anthropic or any third party. The MCP server runs on your machine; it only communicates with the RiseUp API and your local MCP client.

• The token is read-only. It cannot make changes to your account.

• Tokens expire after 30 days by default. Revoke a token any time at /developer/tokens.

• Never share your token, paste it into a chat, or commit it to source control.

Development

git clone git@github.com:riseup-oss/mcp.git
cd mcp
npm install
npm run build
npm test

Local smoke tests

examples/smoke-test.mjs drives the built MCP server as a real MCP client (same @modelcontextprotocol/sdk stdio transport Claude Desktop uses), calls get_budget, and prints PII-safe shape signals about the response — useful for verifying the end-to-end pipeline (PAT → RiseUp API → back) without piping an LLM into the loop:

RISEUP_PAT=riseup_pat_... RISEUP_API_BASE=http://127.0.0.1:6040 \
  node examples/smoke-test.mjs --date=current

examples/fetch-budget.mjs is a lower-level alternative that calls the HTTP endpoint directly and dumps the JSON body to stdout for local inspection:

RISEUP_PAT=riseup_pat_... node examples/fetch-budget.mjs 2026-05 > /tmp/budget.json

Both default RISEUP_API_BASE to http://127.0.0.1:6040 because Node 18's fetch resolves localhost to ::1 and most servers bind IPv4 only — set explicitly if your local API server is elsewhere.

License

MIT