ZenMoney

mcp-server-zenmoney

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MCP server for ZenMoney (Дзен-мани). It gives an AI agent access to your accounts and balances, lets it search transactions and build reports, read and set monthly budgets, see planned (recurring) operations and debts, categorize spending, and record or edit transactions with safety rails. It talks to the official ZenMoney API v8 (POST /v8/diff/ sync protocol and POST /v8/suggest/) using an OAuth token, e.g. one issued through Zerro.

Unofficial project, not affiliated with ZenMoney or Zerro. Your token and data stay on your machine.

Quick start

Requirements: Node.js >= 22.

1. Get a token: open https://zerro.app/token, log in with your ZenMoney account and copy the token shown.
2. Verify it: ZENMONEY_TOKEN=... npx -y mcp-server-zenmoney --check prints OK: <login>, main currency …, N active accounts, M transactions (exit code 1 with the reason otherwise).
3. Add the server to your agent (below).

Without a token the server still starts; every tool then explains how to configure one.

Connect to an agent (stdio)

Claude Code

claude mcp add zenmoney -e ZENMONEY_TOKEN=YOUR_TOKEN -- npx -y mcp-server-zenmoney

Claude Desktop / Cursor / most MCP clients

claude_desktop_config.json, ~/.cursor/mcp.json, …:

{  "mcpServers": {    "zenmoney": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "mcp-server-zenmoney"],      "env": { "ZENMONEY_TOKEN": "YOUR_TOKEN" }    }  }}

omp

User-wide config ~/.omp/agent/mcp.json (or per project .omp/mcp.json), inside mcpServers:

"zenmoney": {  "type": "stdio",  "command": "npx",  "args": ["-y", "mcp-server-zenmoney"],  "env": { "ZENMONEY_TOKEN": "${ZENMONEY_TOKEN}" }}

omp expands ${VAR} placeholders, so the token can stay in your shell environment. Then /mcp reload.

Keeping the token out of config files

umask 077 && printf '%s' 'YOUR_TOKEN' > ~/.config/zenmoney-token

and use "env": { "ZENMONEY_TOKEN_FILE": "~/.config/zenmoney-token" } instead of ZENMONEY_TOKEN.

Read-only

Add "ZENMONEY_READ_ONLY": "true" to env, or --read-only to args. Write tools are then not registered at all.

HTTP mode

ZENMONEY_TOKEN=... npx -y mcp-server-zenmoney --http --port 3000

• MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP): http://127.0.0.1:3000/mcp; GET /health returns {"ok":true}; any other path is 404.
• Default bind is 127.0.0.1. Loopback binds (127.0.0.1, localhost, ::1) apply Host/Origin validation against DNS rebinding.
• Any other --host / MCP_HTTP_HOST is refused unless MCP_HTTP_TOKEN is set. When set (on any bind), clients must send Authorization: Bearer <MCP_HTTP_TOKEN>, otherwise they get 401. It is a single-user server: whoever has that token has your ZenMoney access, so keep it on a private network.

Configuration

CLI flags take precedence over the corresponding environment variables.

Tools

Read tools (always registered, annotated readOnlyHint):

Write tools (not registered in read-only mode):

Write tools carry MCP annotations: creating tools are non-destructive (destructiveHint: false); editing/deleting tools are destructiveHint: true, so clients that honor hints can ask for confirmation.

create_transactions, update_transactions, delete_transactions, delete_category and set_budgets accept dry_run: true: they resolve everything and return the would-be result (for updates: before/after per transaction) without sending anything to ZenMoney.

Prompts

Clients that support MCP prompts (e.g. as slash commands) get three workflows that only orchestrate the tools above:

Conventions

These are also sent to the agent as server instructions.

• Amounts are always positive; type gives the direction: expense, income, transfer (between own accounts), debt_out (money given to a person: lending or repaying), debt_in (money received: borrowing or being repaid).
• Accounts and categories are referenced by name (case- and emoji-insensitive, unique substrings work), "Parent / Child" category paths, or ids. Accounts can also be referenced by card last digits (4+).
• Currencies are ISO codes (RUB, USD, KZT, ...). Dates are YYYY-MM-DD.
• Query tools accept period: today, yesterday, this_week, last_week, this_month, last_month, this_quarter, last_quarter, this_year, last_year, last_7_days, last_30_days, last_90_days, last_12_months (weeks start Monday; date_from/date_to override either end).
• Reports are in the main currency at ZenMoney's current exchange rates and, like ZenMoney, count only in-balance accounts unless asked otherwise. Transfers and debts are excluded from summaries. The totals returned by list_transactions follow the same rules (in-balance, not deleted), even when the listed transactions include off-balance or deleted ones.
• A missing expense/income category on new transactions is filled from this payee's history first, then from the ZenMoney suggestion service (only live categories of the right kind). A new transaction matching an existing one (same date, type, account and amount) produces a duplicate warning; it is still recorded.
• update_transactions category replaces the main category and keeps secondary tags; null leaves the transaction uncategorized. Moving a transaction to an account in another currency requires the new amount. Changing only amount of a same-currency transfer updates both sides unless the received amount differed (a fee), which is kept.
• Every write syncs with ZenMoney first and runs one at a time, so edits made in the app moments earlier are not overwritten and parallel tool calls cannot clobber each other. References to categories/merchants deleted in the app are dropped from pushed objects instead of failing the whole batch.
• If ZenMoney accepts a write but the answer is lost (timeout), the tool says the change may or may not have been saved; the next call re-syncs, so a retry gets a duplicate warning instead of silently doubling.
• Deletes are soft. ZenMoney cannot undelete in place, so restore_transactions re-creates each transaction under a new id; restoring the same transaction again is a no-op that points at the existing copy.
• Budgets: set_budgets sets an exact amount (lock on); 0 removes the budget. Budgets without the lock (set in the app) also include the month's planned operations, as in ZenMoney. The profile's month start day is honored. Rollover between months is not modelled.
• Zerro's hidden 🤖 [Zerro Data] account and the reminders attached to it are ignored everywhere.

Example prompts

• "How did October go? Biggest categories and anything unusual compared to September."
• "Add: Magnum 12 450 KZT today from Kaspi Gold, groceries."
• "Recategorize all Yandex Go rides from last month to Transport / Taxi."
• "Copy this month's budgets to next month, but raise Restaurants to 80 000."
• "Who owes me money, and how much in total?"
• "What payments are scheduled for the next two weeks?"
• "My cash wallet actually has 23 000; fix the balance."

Data, privacy and sync

• The server keeps a local replica of your ZenMoney database synced via /v8/diff/: a full download on first use, incremental diffs afterwards. Data older than ZENMONEY_SYNC_TTL seconds is refreshed automatically before a tool runs; sync forces it.
• The replica is persisted to <cache dir>/snapshot-<hash>.json (directory created 0700, file 0600). The filename is a hash of token and API origin; the token itself is never written to disk. The snapshot does contain your financial data. Set ZENMONEY_CACHE=off to keep everything in memory.
• API origin: https://api.zenmoney.ru first; if it rejects the token before any request has succeeded, https://api.zenmoney.app is tried. ZENMONEY_API_URL pins a single origin.
• HTTP 401 from ZenMoney means the token is no longer valid: get a fresh one at https://zerro.app/token.
• "Today" and default dates use the process time zone; set TZ (e.g. TZ=Asia/Almaty) in the server's env if the agent host runs in a different zone.
• Snapshots of tokens you no longer use stay in the cache directory; delete old snapshot-*.json files after rotating a token.
• Logs go to stderr only.

Limitations

• Planned (recurring) operations can be read but not created or edited.
• Loan and deposit accounts cannot be created; bank-synced accounts are created by ZenMoney itself.
• Balances are not edited directly; adjust_account_balance records a correction transaction.
• Currency conversions in reports use current exchange rates, not historical ones.
• Zerro's envelope budget rollover is not computed.

Development

git clone https://github.com/krax1337/mcp-server-zenmoney && cd mcp-server-zenmoneynpm install         # also builds dist/npm run typecheck   # tsc --noEmitnpm test            # vitest; offline, against an in-repo fake ZenMoney server in test/node dist/index.js  # run the local build

Releases: bump version in package.json and server.json, then push a vX.Y.Z tag. The Publish workflow tests, publishes to npm via Trusted Publishing (no token, with provenance) and to the MCP Registry as io.github.krax1337/mcp-server-zenmoney.

Source layout:

• src/index.ts — entry point, stdio and HTTP transports
• src/config.ts — environment variables and CLI flags
• src/server.ts — MCP server and agent instructions
• src/prompts.ts — MCP prompts (monthly_review, categorize_transactions, plan_budget)
• src/tools/ — MCP tools (read.ts, write.ts, shared schemas and context)
• src/zenmoney/ — API client (api.ts), sync store and cache (store.ts), ledger semantics (ledger.ts), analytics (analytics.ts), write builders (writes.ts), dates and types

License

MIT