Crunch Accounting (crunch-mcp)

io.github.mattoddie/crunch-mcp

6/6 checks passed
Runs locally
2 secrets
★ 0 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-22
Health score 43

About Crunch Accounting (crunch-mcp)

Crunch Accounting (crunch-mcp) is an MCP server published by the GitHub account mattoddie. Work with your Crunch Accounting books: expenses, receipts, invoices, clients, suppliers and banking

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the Docker (OCI) package ghcr.io/mattoddie/crunch-mcp:0.4.1, with no version pinned.

It asks for 2 secrets: CRUNCH_CLIENT_SECRET and CRUNCH_REFRESH_TOKEN. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

It also needs CRUNCH_CLIENT_ID set before it starts.

Version 0.4.1 was published on 22 October 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 8 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 6 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`MCP_TRANSPORT`	No	No	Serve MCP over stdio. The image serves HTTP by default.
`CRUNCH_CLIENT_ID`	Yes	No	The client ID Crunch gave you when it approved your API application.
`CRUNCH_CLIENT_SECRET`	No	Yes	Only for confidential clients, which Crunch issues a secret. Leave empty for a public client.
`CRUNCH_REDIRECT_URI`	No	No	Only if your API account has a redirect URI registered with Crunch. Empty means http://127.0.0.1:8976/callback.
`CRUNCH_REFRESH_TOKEN`	No	Yes	Optional refresh token to start from instead of logging in. Don't use it anywhere else afterwards.
`CRUNCH_ALLOW_WRITES`	No	No	Allow creating and changing records, including issuing invoices. Off means read-only.
`CRUNCH_ALLOW_DELETES`	No	No	Also allow deleting records and removing payments. Needs CRUNCH_ALLOW_WRITES.
`CRUNCH_ALLOW_EMAIL`	No	No	Also allow emailing invoices and turning on payment reminders. Needs CRUNCH_ALLOW_WRITES.
`CRUNCH_TOOLSETS`	No	No	Optional comma-separated toolsets to expose fewer tools, e.g. account,reference,expenses. Empty means all.
`CRUNCH_FILES_DIR`	No	No	Optional folder, inside the container, for receipts to attach and files to save. Mount it too. Empty turns it off.
`CRUNCH_AUDIT_LOG`	No	No	Optional audit log of every change: stderr, or a file path inside the container. Empty turns it off.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/mattoddie/crunch-mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 2 secrets: CRUNCH_CLIENT_SECRET, CRUNCH_REFRESH_TOKEN
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account mattoddie
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Code red flags	Pass	Read 1 files in the bundle: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 1 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 43 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity0 / 40

0 GitHub stars, no download count, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity15 / 25

Last push 2026-10-26, last release 2026-10-22, 0 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

0 closed of 0 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

0 forks, 17 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.mattoddie/crunch-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account mattoddie
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account mattoddie. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	oci `ghcr.io/mattoddie/crunch-mcp:0.4.1` no version given (stdio) mcpb `https://github.com/mattoddie/crunch-mcp/releases/download/v0.4.1/crunch-mcp-0.4.1-darwin-arm64.mcpb` 0.4.1 (stdio) mcpb `https://github.com/mattoddie/crunch-mcp/releases/download/v0.4.1/crunch-mcp-0.4.1-darwin-amd64.mcpb` 0.4.1 (stdio) mcpb `https://github.com/mattoddie/crunch-mcp/releases/download/v0.4.1/crunch-mcp-0.4.1-windows-amd64.mcpb` 0.4.1 (stdio) mcpb `https://github.com/mattoddie/crunch-mcp/releases/download/v0.4.1/crunch-mcp-0.4.1-windows-arm64.mcpb` 0.4.1 (stdio) mcpb `https://github.com/mattoddie/crunch-mcp/releases/download/v0.4.1/crunch-mcp-0.4.1-linux-amd64.mcpb` 0.4.1 (stdio) mcpb `https://github.com/mattoddie/crunch-mcp/releases/download/v0.4.1/crunch-mcp-0.4.1-linux-arm64.mcpb` 0.4.1 (stdio)
Version	0.4.1
Published	2026-10-22
Last updated	2026-10-22
Source repository	https://github.com/mattoddie/crunch-mcp
Website	https://crunch-mcp.mattoddie.dev
Category	Finance & payments (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · Docker image

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crunch-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "CRUNCH_CLIENT_ID",
        "ghcr.io/mattoddie/crunch-mcp:0.4.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CRUNCH_CLIENT_ID": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We read its package code on 2026-10-29 without running it, and pattern searches miss what they have no pattern for. Tool descriptions built at run time were not seen. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-mattoddie-crunch-mcp.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.