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ato-mcp MCP Server

Australian tax knowledge base for agents: 34,500+ ATO documents, cited answers to any tax question.

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

Status

Pod has not dialled ato-mcp yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://api.ato-mcp.com.au/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ato-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.ato-mcp.com.au/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Known issues

9 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 6.

Most discussed

[hardening] Vercel KV rate-limit + RLS-isolation CI test

Two production-hardening items for a public launch handling PII:

  • Rate limit is in-memory (packages/backend/api/_middleware.ts, Map keyed by minute) — does not survive multiple function instances/cold starts. Swap to Vercel KV (already a documented TODO).
  • RLS isolation is untested in CI0004_rls.sql policies exist but the "user A cannot read user B's facts/events" test was never wired (design §7 calls it the test that protects the privacy promise). Add it against a real Postgr

Read the thread · 2026-06-06 · closed · 1 comment

[v1.0] Open-source launch readiness: LICENSE, README, end-user docs, disclaimer legal review

Per the original design (2026-05-25-ato-mcp-design.md §9), v1.0 = open-source launch readiness. Currently missing:

  • No LICENSE file (the design calls the project open-sourceable end-to-end).
  • No README / end-user docs (install, modes, tool reference).
  • Disclaimer legal review — design §8 open question: a tax-aware lawyer should review the disclaimer wording before a public launch of a tax tool. Genuine 1.0 gate.
  • Privacy policy + terms already exist (schema-driven `/privacy

Read the thread · 2026-06-06 · closed · 1 comment

[v1.0] Publish @ato-mcp/mcp to npm + finalize the install story

@ato-mcp/mcp is not published to npm (404) and package.json is version 0.1.0 while the server reports 0.3.0 (version drift). Without a published, installable package there is no npx ato-mcp / plugin-install path for users.

What: reconcile the version, add an npm-publish GitHub Action (and/or Claude Code plugin-marketplace listing), publish, and document the install in the README.

Read the thread · 2026-06-06 · closed · 1 comment

[v1.0] Local-mode corpus: publish a corpus release, or scope local mode out of v1

gh release list is empty — there are no published corpus releases, so a local-mode install has nothing to download. Only hosted mode actually works for a new user today, yet local mode (privacy/offline) is a headline differentiator.

.github/workflows/corpus-build.yml exists and does gh release create (tag v0.2.*) on a monthly cron, but has never produced a release (and the tag/version is stale).

Decide for 1.0: either (a) run the corpus-build workflow to publish a current

Read the thread · 2026-06-06 · closed · 1 comment

[v0.4 follow-up] Close v0.4 unit-test coverage gaps

The v0.4 holistic review flagged acceptable-but-real coverage gaps:

  • audit_risk_check: ~6 of 13 detectors lack a direct unit test (car_near_cap, clothing_high, self_education_present, rental_interest_vs_income, rental_repairs_large, no_prior_year_lodged).
  • depreciation_helper: the sbe_pool, GST-exclusivity-note, and car-limit-note branches aren't driven end-to-end through the tool wrapper (the maths is unit-tested directly).
  • Backend handler happy-paths are untestable under the null-ret

Read the thread · 2026-06-06 · closed · 1 comment

Most recent

[Client]: MCP serverInfo reports stale hardcoded version

Description

The MCP server advertises a hardcoded version string that has drifted from the package version. The initialize handshake reports 1.1.0 while the published package is 1.1.1.

Root Cause

  • packages/mcp/src/server.ts sets serverInfo to { name: "ato-mcp", version: "1.1.0" } as a literal.
  • packages/mcp/package.json is at 1.1.1, so the two diverge on every release.

Observed Behaviour

  • initialize returns serverInfo.version: "1.1.0" when running the publish

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 0 comments

See all 9 reports Pod holds for ato-mcp.

Firsthand observations

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