financy

Your Open-Finance / Financy banking data — connections, accounts, balances, transactions — in the terminal, with machine-first output for scripting, an embedded MCP server for agents, and agent skills in the box.

npx financy status

Install

npm install -g financy     # or just use npx financy <command>

Node 20+ is the only prerequisite.

Related MCP server: plaid-mcp

Requirements

The CLI talks to your Open-Finance data through the Financy API, which is a paid feature. To use it you must:

1. Register for a Financy account at open-finance.ai.

2. Subscribe to a paid plan (Starter or Pro) — the data API is not available on the free plan (every data command returns exit code 4).

3. Copy your clientId, clientSecret, and userId from the Financy app → Settings → API.

Setup

financy setup                 # interactive prompts (explains where to get the values)
financy setup --no-input      # read FINANCY_CLIENT_ID / _SECRET / _USER_ID from env (agents/CI)

setup validates the credentials against the live API before saving, so an unregistered/free account is caught immediately (exit 3 for bad credentials, 4 for an ineligible plan).

Commands

financy status                       Are my connections fresh? one-line-per-bank rollup
financy connections list|get <id>    Bank/card connections and their fetch state
financy accounts list|get <id>       Accounts with balances (securities embedded)
financy transactions list|get <id>   Transactions with --from/--to/--account/--type filters
financy categories                   The category taxonomy (English + Hebrew)
financy providers list|branches      Reference data: banks and branches
financy refresh                      Trigger an on-demand refresh of all connections (20 credits)
financy config                       Show resolved endpoints + credential sources (secret masked)
financy skills list|install          Agent skills bundled with the CLI
financy mcp                          Run the embedded MCP server (stdio)

Debugging tip: financy config shows which endpoints and credentials are in effect (and whether each came from env or the config file) without ever printing the secret. Set FINANCY_DEBUG=1 to have the raw API response bodies printed to stderr.

Every command takes --json for a stable machine-readable envelope ({data, count, nextPage} for lists, {data} for single resources; errors as {error:{code,message}} on stderr). List commands take --limit, --cursor, and --all (auto-paginate). Exit codes: 0 ok · 1 unexpected · 2 usage · 3 auth · 4 plan · 5 credits · 6 not-found · 7 api.

Agent skills

Skills ship inside this package, so they can never drift from the CLI version they drive. Install them into a project's .claude/skills/ directory:

financy skills list             # what's in the box
financy skills install --all    # install every skill here
financy skills install freshness-check --dir ~/work/analysis

Skills are plain SKILL.md files — read them under skills/ before you install them.

MCP server (for AI agents)

financy mcp runs a stdio Model Context Protocol server exposing the command surface 1:1 as verb_noun tools (list_connections, get_status, refresh_connections, …) with the same {data, …} envelopes. Add it to Claude Code:

claude mcp add financy -- npx financy mcp

Credentials resolve exactly as the CLI does (config file or FINANCY_* env vars); an unconfigured server returns a structured NOT_CONFIGURED error from every tool. refresh_connections costs 20 credits — its tool description tells agents to confirm with the user first.

Updating

financy update

Detects how it was installed and does the right thing: a global install runs npm install -g financy@latest; under npx it reminds you that npx always runs the latest; as a project dependency it defers to your project's package manager.

Releasing

1. Update CHANGELOG.md (move items out of Unreleased into the new version).

2. npm version <patch|minor|major> — bumps package.json and creates a vX.Y.Z tag.

3. git push --follow-tags.

4. The Release workflow (.github/workflows/release.yml) runs on the tag: it re-runs lint/typecheck/test/build, verifies the tag matches package.json, and publishes to npm with --provenance (via the NPM_TOKEN secret and id-token trusted publishing). The published version shows its provenance attestation on npm.

Before tagging, run the manual staging smoke test (not part of CI) with a real paid-org credential:

npm run build
FINANCY_CLIENT_ID=… FINANCY_CLIENT_SECRET=… FINANCY_USER_ID=… \
FINANCY_AUTH_URL=… FINANCY_API_URL=… FINANCY_CHAT_URL=… FINANCY_AUDIENCE=… \
npm run smoke

License

Apache-2.0