india-stack-mcp

Production-grade MCP servers for Indian enterprise systems. Agents that can do books and file taxes in India — starting with TallyPrime, the accounting system behind millions of Indian SMEs.

Why

Frontier agents can reason about GST, but they cannot touch Tally. There is no modern API, no OAuth, no SDK — just a local XML gateway that punishes the unprepared. This project is the missing connector layer: typed tools, dry-run-first writes, idempotency, human approval hooks, and a tamper-evident audit trail, packaged as standard MCP servers that work in Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any MCP client.

Related MCP server: Zoho Books MCP Server

Status

Quick start

npm install
npm run build

Point Claude Desktop / Cursor at the built server (see examples/claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tally": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["<abs-path>/packages/connector-tally/bin/tally-mcp.js"],
      "env": {
        "TALLY_URL": "http://localhost:9000",
        "TALLY_COMPANY": "Your Company Pvt Ltd"
      }
    },
    "zoho": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["<abs-path>/packages/connector-zoho/bin/zoho-mcp.js"],
      "env": {
        "ZOHO_CLIENT_ID": "...",
        "ZOHO_CLIENT_SECRET": "...",
        "ZOHO_REFRESH_TOKEN": "...",
        "ZOHO_DC": "in",
        "ZOHO_ORGANIZATION_ID": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Requirements on the Tally side: TallyPrime running locally with XML serving enabled on port 9000 (F1 → Settings → Connectivity). See docs/tally-xml-notes.md.

Zoho Books needs a self-client OAuth refresh token with Books scopes (ZohoBooks.fullaccess.all or narrower), created at the Zoho API Console. Credentials can also live in a file-based vault instead of env vars (CredentialVault in core).

Tools (27)

Tally (12) — Reads: tally_list_companies, tally_get_company, tally_search_ledgers, tally_get_ledger, tally_day_book, tally_trial_balance, tally_ledger_balances, tally_list_voucher_types, tally_find_vouchers. Writes: tally_create_ledger, tally_create_voucher (7 voucher types), tally_delete_voucher.

Zoho Books (11) — Reads: zoho_list_organizations, zoho_list_contacts, zoho_get_contact, zoho_list_invoices, zoho_get_invoice, zoho_list_items, zoho_chart_of_accounts. Writes (dry-run by default): zoho_create_contact, zoho_create_invoice, zoho_create_item, zoho_create_customer_payment.

GST ops (4) — gst_validate_gstin (mod-36 checksum, state, PAN/entity type), gst_einvoice_build (canonical v1.01 payload with tax splits + round-off), gst_einvoice_generate (IRN via pluggable IRP client; NIC-style encrypted envelopes: RSA-wrapped SEK + AES-256-CBC + HMAC-SHA256), gst_reconcile_2b (matched/mismatch/missing classification across your purchase register vs GSTR-2B, with ITC-at-risk quantification).

Every write returns the exact upstream request body as a preview until you pass dry_run: false. Retries with the same idempotency_key never double-post.

Safety model

• Writes default to preview; committing requires explicit opt-in.

• Vouchers are balance-checked client-side before any network call.

• Every invocation appends a redacted, hash-chained audit record (INDIA_STACK_AUDIT_LOG).

• Destructive tools can require human approval via a pluggable Approver.

See docs/architecture.md for the full design.

HTTP mode

npm run start -w @india-stack/demo-host   # POST http://localhost:8787/mcp/tally

Development

npm run test        # unit + golden-file tests (no Tally needed)
TALLY_LIVE=1 npm run test:live   # hits a real local TallyPrime
npm run lint && npm run typecheck && npm test

License

Apache-2.0