Expense MCP server
Receipt tracker with no friction: receipts arrive by email and file themselves
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Public scan report
scanner v0.1.9 · 2026-09-24 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
- –Code scanremote-only server, no package to scann/a
- Live reliabilityremote reachable in 371ms (auth required)20/20
- –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (endpoint requires auth); not countedn/a
- Auth qualityOAuth resource metadata advertised on 40115/15
- Maintenancelast push 0 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
What the publisher says
From the Expense repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
Expense
Expense is a seamless receipt tracking solution: receipts are automatically
sent via email, mileage uses the tax rate provided by the IRS, and a smart AI
assistant does your data entry so that you can forget about the process
altogether.
Screenshots
What it does:
category, merchant, amount) and mileage expenses (map a route on the map, powered by Leaflet + OSRM, using the per year mileage rate)
- Log receipt expenses (upload/scan the image, specify the date, report,
the receipt will be parsed and automatically added (see below)
- Forward your receipt to the email associated with your Expense account, and
saved and automatically renamed to YYYY-MM-DDReportName.jpg
- Reports and categories to organize your expenses into; every receipt image is
archive
- Export: as a PDF (one PDF per report with receipt images attached) and a ZIP
Stack:
settings, mileage, image blobs
- React Router v8 (framework mode) + Tailwind v4, TypeScript
- Postgres via Prisma: accounts, users, expenses, reports, categories,
storage
- Images: Postgres BYTEA (production and development/test), with no external
deploys)
- Deployed on Vercel + Supabase Postgres (git push to main automatically
Auth and accounts:
account is separate from other ones
- Email/password login (hashed with scrypt), sessions with signed cookies
- Multi-user accounts: everything in one account is shared between users, each
Settings) and can sign up to a new account from scratch; image keys are namespaced by an account so that two accounts won't interfere
- A user can join an account by entering an 8-character invite code (visible in
Accounts and sharing
Email/password login: email is the login name, stored in lowercase and validated, and unique at signup/join. All expenses, reports, categories, and settings belong to an account; everything in an account is shared between users, and accounts are fully isolated from each other.
existing account and share its data.
- Sign up -> creates an entirely new account (empty).
- Join -> enters an account invite code (Settings -> Account) to join an
the database is empty; pre-existing accounts get their login restored from APP_EMAIL on the first launch (initStore).
- The first account/user is bootstrapped from APPEMAIL/APPPASSWORD when
SEO and AI discovery
Marketing pages that are available publicly double as the AI search surface: if an assistant is asked for an expense tracker, the GPTBot / OAI-SearchBot / ClaudeBot / PerplexityBot crawler quotes them. The copy is written in such a way that it's easily quotable and includes the app name and the URL and lives only in one place, the content files under app/data/ (one markdown or YAML file per page, parsed by app/lib/content.server.ts), which render all the surfaces:
Plumbing to support it: public/robots.txt explicitly permits the AI crawlers while app routes are blocked, and public/sitemap.xml lists the public pages.
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Install directly
claude mcp add --transport http expense https://expense.labnotes.org/mcp
Expense: common questions
- Is Expense MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (97/100). Read the Expense safety report
- How do I install Expense?
- It runs remotely at expense.labnotes.org. Add it to Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Cursor with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Expense need an API key?
- No key to paste: it signs you in with OAuth when your client connects.
- Is Expense maintained?
- The last commit was in the last day (2026-09-24). The latest release is v1.0.0.
- Is Expense up?
- 100% of our last 20 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- What can I use instead of Expense?
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