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Monarch MCP Server for VS Code

io.github.jamiew/monarch-mcp

Query and update Monarch Money accounts, transactions, and budgets

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install Monarch MCP Server in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "monarch-email",
      "description": "MONARCH_EMAIL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "monarch-password",
      "description": "MONARCH_PASSWORD",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "monarch-mfa-secret",
      "description": "MONARCH_MFA_SECRET",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "monarch-force-login",
      "description": "MONARCH_FORCE_LOGIN",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "monarch-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "monarch-mcp-jamiew"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MONARCH_EMAIL": "${input:monarch-email}",
        "MONARCH_PASSWORD": "${input:monarch-password}",
        "MONARCH_MFA_SECRET": "${input:monarch-mfa-secret}",
        "MONARCH_FORCE_LOGIN": "${input:monarch-force-login}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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