How to Install Shelter in OpenAI Agents SDK

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

1Install: pip install openai-agents
2Copy the snippet below into your agent code
3Replace placeholder env values with your real keys
4Pass mcp_servers=[mcp_server] to your Agent()

Python snippet

Python snippetpython

from agents import Agent
from agents.mcp import MCPServerStdio

mcp_server = MCPServerStdio(
    command="npx",
    args=["-y", "@shelter.money/mcp"],
)

agent = Agent(
    name="My Agent",
    model="gpt-4o",
    mcp_servers=[mcp_server],
)

Full server details GitHub Open Config Editor

Install in other clients

🤖Claude Desktop 💻Claude Code ⌨️Cursor 🏄Windsurf ♊Gemini

For maintainers

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