Lunch Money
local MCP serverLunch Money is a local MCP server: MCP server for managing LunchMoney personal finances: transactions, budgets, categories, and more. Install it from npm as @akutishevsky/lunchmoney-mcp.
Installation
Terminal
claude mcp add lunchmoney-mcp -e LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN=... -e LUNCHMONEY_DEBUG=... -- npx -y @akutishevsky/lunchmoney-mcp
Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.
Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients
Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.
{
"mcpServers": {
"lunchmoney-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@akutishevsky/lunchmoney-mcp"
],
"env": {
"LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN": "...",
"LUNCHMONEY_DEBUG": "..."
}
}
}
}Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.
What you need
- Runtime: Node.js 18+ (runs with npx).
- MCP client: Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Claude Desktop, Cursor or any other client that speaks MCP over stdio.
- Environment variables:
LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN,LUNCHMONEY_DEBUG
Summary
MCP server for managing LunchMoney personal finances: transactions, budgets, categories, and more.
Lunch Money vs similar servers
| Server | Stars | Type | API key | Runtime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lunch Money | 108 | Local | Yes | npm |
| Actual Budget MCP Server | 239 | Local | Yes | npm |
| ha-mcp | 4,868 | Local | No | pypi |
| DBHub | 3,574 | Local | Yes | npm |
| Persome | 1,324 | Local | No | pypi |
Questions
It reads 2 environment variables: LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN, LUNCHMONEY_DEBUG. Set them in your MCP config before starting the server.
Node.js 18+ (runs with npx), plus an MCP client such as Claude Code, Codex, Claude Desktop or Cursor.
Lunch Money is a local MCP server distributed as the npm package @akutishevsky/lunchmoney-mcp.
Run: claude mcp add lunchmoney-mcp -e LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN=... -e LUNCHMONEY_DEBUG=... -- npx -y @akutishevsky/lunchmoney-mcp
Run: codex mcp add lunchmoney-mcp --env LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN=... --env LUNCHMONEY_DEBUG=... -- npx -y @akutishevsky/lunchmoney-mcp
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