How to Install Shelter in Claude Desktop

Read-only money tools MCP for Claude/Cursor — safe-to-spend / overdraft-aware Shelter.

What Shelter does

Shelter MCP gives Claude, Cursor, Codex, and other agents scoped, read-only access to Shelter-generated financial context. It provides safe-to-spend, overdraft-aware forecasts, alerts, runway, affordability checks, and coaching answers without moving money or exposing bank credentials.

finance

read-only

budgeting

Installation steps

1Copy the config below
2Open claude_desktop_config.json
3Paste inside "mcpServers": {}
4Restart Claude Desktop

Configuration

File location: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.jsonjson

{
  "shelter": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": [
      "-y",
      "@shelter.money/mcp"
    ]
  }
}

Full server details GitHub Open Config Editor

Install in other clients

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For maintainers

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