# nz-akahu-mcp

> Unofficial MCP server for the Akahu open-finance API (New Zealand). Personal Apps, read-by-default, write-with-consent.

Record `nz-akahu-mcp` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/nz-akahu-mcp/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/nz-akahu-mcp
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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/nz-akahu-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: nz-akahu-mcp contributors
- homepage: https://github.com/severity1/nz-akahu-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/severity1/nz-akahu-mcp/releases
- version: 0.1.5
- license: Apache-2.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: akahu, banking, mcp, new-zealand, open-finance
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:nz-akahu-mcp

### Description (declared)

# nz-akahu-mcp

Unofficial MCP server for the [Akahu](https://akahu.nz) open-finance API
(New Zealand). Bring your own Akahu credentials; run locally over stdio; no
hosted backend.

- **14 tools.** Account & balance reads, settled & pending transaction reads, batch lookup by id, identity read, refresh writes, support-ticket writes, name verification.
- **Read-only by default.** Every write tool refuses until `AKAHU_READ_ONLY=false`.
- **Per-call consent for every write.** Each write calls `ctx.elicit()` for confirmation in the client.
- **Personal Apps only.** App-scoped endpoints, payments, and webhooks are not exposed.

## Prerequisites

1. **Akahu Personal App + User token** - register at https://my.akahu.nz/developers
2. **[`uv`](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/)** for the `uvx` runner (or pip with a virtualenv)
3. **[Claude Code](https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/overview)** or **[Claude Desktop](https://claude.ai/download)**

The two recommended install paths below (marketplace plugin for Claude Code, `.mcpb` Desktop Extension for Claude Desktop) prompt for your tokens and store them in your OS keychain. Only the manual paths further down need shell env vars:

```bash
export AKAHU_APP_TOKEN="app_token_..."
export AKAHU_USER_TOKEN="user_token_..."
# Optional - everything below is the default:
export AKAHU_READ_ONLY=true
export AKAHU_AUTOMATION_BYPASS=false
```

## Install in Claude Code

### Marketplace plugin (recommended)

Tokens prompt at install and are stored in your OS keychain (macOS Keychain on macOS, Windows Credential Manager on Windows). No shell env or `.env` file required; the package stays unchanged on PyPI.

Claude Code v2.1.83 or later:

```text
/plugin marketplace add severity1/severity1-marketplace
/plugin install nz-akahu-mcp@severity1-marketplace
```

After install, `/mcp` should show `nz-akahu-mcp` connected. See [`plugin/README.md`](plugin/README.md) for the configure / reconfigure / uninstall flow and the full table of prompted value…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- finance.banking (1, declared)
- security.secrets (0.859, derived)
- commerce.payments (0.814, derived)
- dev.package-management (0.768, derived)
- dev.terminal (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/nz-akahu-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T08:25:50.156Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/nz-akahu-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/nz-akahu-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:nz-akahu-mcp