NZ Open Banking MCP
A community Model Context Protocol server that enables AI agents to interact with New Zealand bank accounts through the Akahu open finance API. It operates locally via stdio, defaults to read-only access, and requires explicit user consent for any write operations, ensuring data privacy and security.
Package and access
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- Popularity 1 GitHub star
What you can do with it
- Retrieve account balances and masked account details
- Query settled and pending transactions by date or category
- Search transaction history for specific merchants or amounts
- Verify account holder names against linked accounts
Source and maintenance
- Last repository push
- Latest release
- v0.1.6
- Maintenance checked
Packages and installation
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nz-openbank-mcp 0.1.4
{
"version": "0.1.4",
"transport": "stdio",
"identifier": "nz-openbank-mcp",
"runtimeHint": "uvx",
"registryType": "pypi",
"registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "AKAHU_USER_TOKEN",
"format": "string",
"isRequired": true,
"description": "User token from https://my.akahu.nz/developers."
},
{
"name": "AKAHU_APP_TOKEN",
"format": "string",
"isRequired": true,
"description": "App token from https://my.akahu.nz/developers."
},
{
"name": "AKAHU_READ_ONLY",
"format": "string",
"default": "true",
"description": "Refuse all write tools when 'true'. Leave as 'true' unless you specifically need refresh/verify/report writes."
},
{
"name": "AKAHU_AUTOMATION_BYPASS",
"format": "string",
"default": "false",
"description": "Skip per-call consent prompts for safe-to-automate writes (account refresh only). Requires read-only=false."
}
]
}Tools
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Maintenance history
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Connect from your client
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{
"mcpServers": {
"nz-open-banking-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"nz-openbank-mcp==0.1.4"
],
"env": {
"AKAHU_USER_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AKAHU_USER_TOKEN>",
"AKAHU_APP_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AKAHU_APP_TOKEN>",
"AKAHU_READ_ONLY": "<YOUR_AKAHU_READ_ONLY>",
"AKAHU_AUTOMATION_BYPASS": "<YOUR_AKAHU_AUTOMATION_BYPASS>"
}
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"nz-open-banking-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"nz-openbank-mcp==0.1.4"
],
"env": {
"AKAHU_USER_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AKAHU_USER_TOKEN>",
"AKAHU_APP_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AKAHU_APP_TOKEN>",
"AKAHU_READ_ONLY": "<YOUR_AKAHU_READ_ONLY>",
"AKAHU_AUTOMATION_BYPASS": "<YOUR_AKAHU_AUTOMATION_BYPASS>"
}
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"nz-open-banking-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"nz-openbank-mcp==0.1.4"
],
"env": {
"AKAHU_USER_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AKAHU_USER_TOKEN>",
"AKAHU_APP_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AKAHU_APP_TOKEN>",
"AKAHU_READ_ONLY": "<YOUR_AKAHU_READ_ONLY>",
"AKAHU_AUTOMATION_BYPASS": "<YOUR_AKAHU_AUTOMATION_BYPASS>"
}
}
}
}Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"nz-open-banking-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"nz-openbank-mcp==0.1.4"
],
"env": {
"AKAHU_USER_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AKAHU_USER_TOKEN>",
"AKAHU_APP_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AKAHU_APP_TOKEN>",
"AKAHU_READ_ONLY": "<YOUR_AKAHU_READ_ONLY>",
"AKAHU_AUTOMATION_BYPASS": "<YOUR_AKAHU_AUTOMATION_BYPASS>"
}
}
}
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