# Copilot Money MCP Server

Query and manage Copilot Money personal finances — local reads, opt-in GraphQL writes.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `copilot-money-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**44 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 12.

### Most discussed

### context-budget test reads real $HOME state, and get_connection_status embeds an unbounded scheduled-smoke report

Found while working on #632. Two related things, one a plain test bug, the other a design gap in a budgeted surface. **Neither is a defect in your `scheduled-smoke.ts` writer** — see the disclosure at the end, which matters for how you scope the fix.

## 1. `tests/context-budget.test.ts` reads real `$HOME` state

`bun run check` fails on any machine that has a `~/.claude/copilot-money/scheduled-smoke.json`:

```
(fail) context-budget ratchet (#597) > response-size budgets (cache-mode read tools,

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ignaciohermosillacornejo/copilot-money-mcp/issues/638) · 2026-08-12 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### get_transactions has no field selection — full ~35-40 field document per row is mostly unused bloat

## Summary

`get_transactions` returns the full Firestore transaction document per row — ~35-40 fields including internal IDs (`item_id`, `user_id`, `plaid_category_id`, `parent_transaction_id`), Plaid metadata (`plaid_category_strings`, `plaid_transaction_type`, `plaid_deleted`), intelligence-suggestion arrays (`intelligence_suggested_category_ids`), and assorted flags (`is_amazon`, `from_investment`, `account_dashboard_active`, `_origin`, etc.). For most spending-analysis use cases only a hand

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ignaciohermosillacornejo/copilot-money-mcp/issues/592) · 2026-08-01 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Unable to attach to server

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what am I doing wrong

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ignaciohermosillacornejo/copilot-money-mcp/issues/249) · 2026-04-14 · closed · external user · 14 comments

### [Audit] Unaddressed suggestions from PR #234

## Unaddressed Review Suggestions from PR #234

**PR Title:** fix(skill): finance-trip improvements from smoke test

The following suggestions from Claude's code review were identified as potentially unaddressed:

### 1. LOW Priority

Consider moving it to a more stable section, e.g., a `## Location` or `## Personal Info` section, or at minimum placing it above the comment so it's clearly distinguished from the trip list entries.

---
*This issue was automatically created by the PR Review Audi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ignaciohermosillacornejo/copilot-money-mcp/issues/236) · 2026-04-13 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### [Audit] Unaddressed suggestions from PR #190

## Unaddressed Review Suggestions from PR #190

**PR Title:** feat: add 6 missing tools — balance history, investment performance, TWR, securities, goal history, update recurring

The following suggestions from Claude's code review were identified as potentially unaddressed:

### 1. LOW Priority

Code change suggested: 
Both branches return the same thing. The `if/else` structure could be simplified to just `await this.loadAllCollections(); return this._balanceHistory ?? []` — but since this mi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ignaciohermosillacornejo/copilot-money-mcp/issues/191) · 2026-04-08 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Most recent

### [Audit] Unaddressed suggestions from PR #668

## Unaddressed review suggestions from PR #668

**PR title:** fix(decoder): key account dedup on account_id, not name and mask (#662)

### MEDIUM: getHoldings() reads db.getAccounts() without the user_deleted/user_hidden filter that get_accounts applies, so a merged/hidden account's stale twin can contribute holdings post-fix.

- **File:** `src/tools/tools.ts`:2515
- **Reviewer said:** > getHoldings — src/tools/tools.ts:2515, iterates every account's acct.holdings ... Apply the same filter and a

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ignaciohermosillacornejo/copilot-money-mcp/issues/688) · 2026-08-30 · open · external user · 0 comments

### [Audit] Unaddressed suggestions from PR #679

## Unaddressed review suggestions from PR #679

**PR title:** fix(security): stop allowlisting what the concealment gate inspects

### HIGH: checkGitAttributes strips everything after a '#' anywhere on the line, not just leading comments, so a mid-line '#' lets a diff-suppressing gitattributes entry (e.g. 'src/pay#load.ts binary') slip past the new rule.

- **File:** `scripts/check-concealment.ts`:395
- **Reviewer said:** > gitattributes(5) says "Lines that begin with # are ignored." Only at lin

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ignaciohermosillacornejo/copilot-money-mcp/issues/686) · 2026-08-30 · open · external user · 0 comments

### [Audit] Unaddressed suggestions from PR #678

## Unaddressed review suggestions from PR #678

**PR title:** docs(audits): record the 2026-08-29 completeness-guard audit

### MEDIUM: F16 was withdrawn from §3 but remains in the §5 remediation table, scheduling a non-existent finding for execution.

- **File:** `docs/audits/2026-08-29-completeness-guard-audit.md`:404
- **Reviewer said:** > `:404` still schedules a withdrawn finding... `| 6 | F11, F13, F16, F17, F18 |` ... a reader executing §5 top-to-bottom goes hunting for a defect that does

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ignaciohermosillacornejo/copilot-money-mcp/issues/682) · 2026-08-30 · open · external user · 0 comments

### [Audit] Unaddressed suggestions from PR #676

## Unaddressed review suggestions from PR #676

**PR title:** test(field-selection): discover presets instead of listing them

### HIGH: discoverStringConstants does not strip inline comments before parsing, so KNOWN_FREQUENCIES and IGNORED_ITEM_FIELDS escape discovery and are absent from PINNED.

- **File:** `tests/exported-constants.test.ts`:89
- **Reviewer said:** > Discovery is blind to any array containing an inline comment — 2 of 25 constants escape today: KNOWN_FREQUENCIES in src/models/r

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ignaciohermosillacornejo/copilot-money-mcp/issues/677) · 2026-08-30 · open · external user · 0 comments

### schema drop on holdings price fields: "expected number, received number" (app 6.4.4, mcp 2.3.0)

## Environment

- copilot-money-mcp: 2.3.0 (npm, cache-only mode, no flags)
- Copilot Money macOS app: 6.4.4 (332)
- macOS 26.3.1, Node 26.5.0

## Symptom

\`get_cache_info\` reports \`decode_health: degraded\` — 19 documents dropped: 18 in \`holdings_history\` and 1 in \`accounts\`. All drops are on holdings price fields with a confusing Zod error:

```
schema drop: collection=accounts docId=<redacted> path=holdings.0.institution_price code=invalid_type message="Invalid input: expected number, 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ignaciohermosillacornejo/copilot-money-mcp/issues/659) · 2026-08-18 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### get_accounts_live (and all --live-reads/--write tools) blocked by db.isAvailable() check even when native app isn't installed

## Summary

`handleCallTool()` in `dist/cli.js` gates **every** tool call behind `this.db.isAvailable()`, which only checks for the native Copilot Money macOS app's local LevelDB cache (`~/Library/Containers/com.copilot.production/...`). This blocks pure live/GraphQL tools like `get_accounts_live`, `get_connection_status`, `get_cache_info`, etc. — which never touch `this.db` at all (their handlers call `ctx.live.*` directly, confirmed in `TOOL_REGISTRY`) — on any machine where the native app isn

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ignaciohermosillacornejo/copilot-money-mcp/issues/640) · 2026-08-13 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### leveldb-reader: temp DB copies (`copilot-leveldb-*`) leak — deferred setTimeout cleanup never fires in short-lived server/worker (33GB observed)

### Summary

`copyDatabaseToTemp` copies the Copilot LevelDB (~120 MB) into `os.tmpdir()` as `copilot-leveldb-XXXXXX` on every read, but the cleanup is **deferred** via `setTimeout(…, TEMP_DB_CACHE_TTL)` (5 min). Because the MCP server typically runs as a **short-lived, per-request process** — and decoding happens in a **worker thread** (`dist/decode-worker.js`) that is terminated right after it posts its result — the process/worker almost always exits **before** the timer fires. Pending timers 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ignaciohermosillacornejo/copilot-money-mcp/issues/631) · 2026-08-09 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[See all 22 reports Pod holds for Copilot Money](/mcp/copilot-money/issues) — of 44 qualified upstream.

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