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expense mcp for VS Code

io.github.justfsl50/expense-mcp

Personal Expense Tracker MCP Server — expenses, income, budgets & savings goals

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install expense mcp in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "database-url",
      "description": "DATABASE_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "currency",
      "description": "CURRENCY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "default-user",
      "description": "DEFAULT_USER",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "expense-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "expense-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATABASE_URL": "${input:database-url}",
        "CURRENCY": "${input:currency}",
        "DEFAULT_USER": "${input:default-user}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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