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Spend Brake for Grok

io.github.kivanow/spend-brake

Capped search, maps and other paid APIs over MCP, with hard dollar limits per key.

client:Grok transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Spend Brake in Grok

.mcp.json (in your project root)

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "spend-brake": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@spend-brake/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BRAKE_KEY": "<BRAKE_KEY>",
        "BRAKE_URL": "<BRAKE_URL>",
        "BRAKE_API_URL": "<BRAKE_API_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Grok Build reads Claude Code's .mcp.json and Claude Desktop's config unchanged, so a server you have already set up there needs nothing new. The Grok web app and X integration do not take custom servers. Grok docs

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