How do I install Wise?

Copy the stdio config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.

Does Wise need an API key?

The publisher lists these environment variables: WISE_API_TOKEN, WRITES_ENABLED, MAX_TRANSFER_AMOUNT.

When was Wise last checked?

Last checked 2026-11-08. Wise balances, card payments, transfers and recipients, plus transfers you approve twice.

Wise MCP server

Wise MCP

Ask Claude or ChatGPT about your Wise money. The simplest, most complete MCP server for your Wise balances, card payments, transfers and recipients that can also prepare transfers you approve twice. Run it locally with one npx command (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor…), or host it as a custom connector for Claude and ChatGPT.

"How much did I spend on groceries in September?" "What's left in my jars, in EUR?" "Show the transfers I sent to Mario this year and the rate I got." "Send Mario 120 EUR for dinner."

Give it a Wise API token once and your assistant can answer questions like these across all your Wise profiles, personal and business. It can also prepare transfers, new recipients and cancellations. Every change needs your explicit approval in chat, and a transfer only moves money once you pay it in the Wise app.

Why this one

The simplest way to connect Wise to an AI assistant, and the most feature-rich Wise MCP server we know of (October 2026):

One token, no partner account. Other servers need Wise partner OAuth credentials or stop at read-only basics. Here a personal API token is all you need, locally or hosted.
Your real spending. The activity feed includes card payments with clean merchant names and amounts, plus transfers, conversions, cashback and Jars, across personal and business profiles.
Writes you can trust. Quotes, new recipients, transfers and cancellations, all two-step and approved in chat; transfers are paid by you in the Wise app.
Everywhere. npx for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, a one-click Claude Desktop extension, or a self-hosted connector for Claude and ChatGPT on web and mobile.
Built for real accounts. 14 tools, encrypted token storage, session management, an audit log, and end-to-end tests for both modes.

Choose how to run it

	Local	Remote (self-hosted)
Works with	Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, any MCP client	Claude (web, desktop, mobile) and ChatGPT custom connectors
Setup	One `npx` command or a one-click Claude Desktop extension	Deploy a container behind HTTPS (Dokploy, Easypanel, Docker Compose)
Token	In your app's MCP config, on your machine	Pasted on a login page, stored encrypted on your server
Guide	Run locally	Deploy

Why this one
Choose how to run it
Tools
How it works
Security model
Run locally
Deploy
Your server's pages
Configuration
Development
Limitations
Contributing
License

Tools

Read

Tool	What it returns
`list_profiles`	Every Wise profile the token can see (personal, business)
`list_balances`	Balances in every currency plus Jars, across all profiles by default
`get_transactions`	Activity feed, newest first: card payments, transfers, conversions, cashback, direct debits. Clean merchant names, numeric amounts, `in` / `out` / `neutral` direction. Filter by type, status, date range and text; cursor pagination
`list_transfers`	Transfers newest first, with both currencies, reference, status and recipient name
`get_transfer`	One transfer in detail: rate, amounts, reference, recipient
`list_recipients`	Saved recipients with account number / IBAN, filterable by currency and text
`get_exchange_rate`	Wise mid-market rate, now or at a past date

Write: always two-step

Tool	What it does
`get_quote`	Prices a transfer or conversion: rate, fee, amount received, delivery estimate. Changes nothing
`get_recipient_requirements`	The bank details Wise needs for a recipient in a currency (IBAN, sort code, …)
`prepare_transfer`	Quotes a transfer to a saved recipient, checks Wise's route requirements and your balance, returns a summary + one-time code
`prepare_recipient`	Validates a new recipient and returns a summary + one-time code
`prepare_cancel_transfer`	Prepares cancelling a transfer you haven't paid yet
`confirm_action`	Performs a prepared action. Only after you approve the exact summary
`discard_action`	Throws a prepared action away

Profiles are discovered from the token at runtime. Every tool takes an optional profile: an id, personal, business, or part of the profile name.

How it works

Locally, the server runs on your machine as a child process of your MCP client and reads the token from WISE_API_TOKEN. Nothing is hosted and there's no login.

Remotely, Wise doesn't offer OAuth to individuals, so the server is its own OAuth 2.1 authorization server for Claude and ChatGPT, and the "login" is a Wise personal API token you paste once.

sequenceDiagram
    autonumber
    participant C as Claude / ChatGPT
    participant S as Wise MCP
    participant W as Wise API
    C->>S: Dynamic client registration (trusted redirect hosts only)
    C->>S: /authorize (PKCE)
    S-->>C: Login page: token + "stay connected for"
    Note over C,S: You paste a Wise API token, pick 5 / 15 / 30 / 90 days or until revoked
    S->>W: GET /v1/me
    W-->>S: Wise user id
    S->>S: Allowlist check, token sealed with AES-256-GCM
    S-->>C: Authorization code → access + refresh tokens
    C->>S: MCP tool calls (Bearer, 1 h tokens, rotating refresh)
    S->>W: Reads, and writes only after confirm_action

Session length is chosen at each login. Access tokens last one hour; refresh tokens rotate on every use and live exactly as long as the session.
/sessions lists every connected session for your Wise account and lets you revoke one or all. You sign in by pasting a Wise token again; it's only used to check who you are and is never stored. Access lasts 15 minutes in an HTTP-only cookie.
Revoking in Wise works too: delete the token in Wise → Settings → API tokens. The next call fails with a clear message, and the server deletes the stored token and every session that used it.

Two confirmations for every write

prepare_*  ──▶  summary + code (TX-…, RCP-…, CXL-…)  ──▶  you approve in chat  ──▶  confirm_action
                 nothing written to Wise yet              ①                          created in Wise
                                                                                          │
transfers only:                                    you pay it in the Wise app  ◀──────────┘
                                                   ②  money moves only now

Codes are single-use, expire after 10 minutes, and only work from the session that prepared them.
Transfers are created unpaid (incoming_payment_waiting). Wise doesn't let personal tokens fund transfers for EU/UK accounts anyway, so the final "Pay" is always yours. Until then you can cancel the transfer with prepare_cancel_transfer or in the app.
Every prepare, confirm, discard and failure is appended to audit.log (~/.wise-mcp/ locally, the data volume when hosted).

Security model


✋ Two-step writes	Every write is prepare → your approval in chat → confirm with a one-time code. Transfers then also need you to pay them in the Wise app.
🔒 Read-only option	`WRITES_ENABLED=false` removes all write tools. With a Wise Read only token, write tools fail with a clear message and reading keeps working.
💶 Limits	Optional `MAX_TRANSFER_AMOUNT` per transfer. Wise's own route checks (purpose, source of funds) are enforced before a code is issued.
🧾 Allowlist	Only Wise user ids in `ALLOWED_WISE_USERS` can connect. Any other token is refused and nothing about it is stored. Removing an id cuts off that user's existing sessions too.
🗝️ Encryption at rest	Wise tokens are sealed with AES-256-GCM under `TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY`. OAuth tokens are stored only as SHA-256 hashes. State files and the audit log are owner-only (`0600`) and written atomically.
🧹 Minimal retention	A Wise token is deleted as soon as no live session uses it: after revocation, session expiry, or when Wise rejects it.
🔁 OAuth hardening	PKCE (S256), single-use login and authorization codes, rotating refresh tokens, redirect hosts limited to `claude.ai`, `claude.com`, `chatgpt.com` and localhost, so authorization codes can only reach apps you trust.
🚦 Rate limiting	The token forms (`/login`, `/sessions/login`) allow 20 attempts per IP every 15 minutes; OAuth endpoints use the MCP SDK's limits.
🔐 HTTPS only	The server refuses to start with a non-HTTPS `PUBLIC_URL`, and every page shows a red warning if it's opened over plain HTTP, so nobody pastes a Wise token on an unencrypted page.
🛡️ Pages	Strict CSP (`default-src 'none'`, `form-action` limited to the server and the client's own redirect origin), `X-Frame-Options: DENY`, `no-store`, no referrer.

[!WARNING] Keep TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY out of backups of the data volume. Changing it makes stored tokens unreadable: just reconnect.

Run locally

Needs Node.js 20 or newer. Create a token first: Wise → Settings → API tokens → Add new token (Full access to prepare transfers and recipients, Read only for answers only).

Claude Desktop extension (one click)

Download wise-mcp-<version>.mcpb from the latest release and open it. Claude Desktop asks for your token (stored securely, never in a plain config file) and whether to allow preparing transfers.

Claude Code

claude mcp add wise -e WISE_API_TOKEN=your-token -- npx -y @blanketbyte/wise-mcp

Codex

Add this to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.wise]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@blanketbyte/wise-mcp"]
env = { WISE_API_TOKEN = "your-token" }

Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients

Add this to the client's MCP config (for Claude Desktop: Settings → Developer → Edit config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wise": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@blanketbyte/wise-mcp"],
      "env": { "WISE_API_TOKEN": "your-token" }
    }
  }
}

The repo is also an Agent Plugin (plugin.json + mcp.json), so clients and directories that support the standard can install it directly. Set WISE_API_TOKEN in your client.

Optional env: WRITES_ENABLED=false for read-only, MAX_TRANSFER_AMOUNT for a per-transfer limit. Run npx @blanketbyte/wise-mcp --help for all options.

[!NOTE] ChatGPT only connects to remote servers, so for ChatGPT use the self-hosted setup.

Deploy

The container serves plain HTTP on port 3000; put it behind anything that terminates HTTPS. State (sealed tokens, sessions) lives in /data.

A prebuilt image is published with every release: ghcr.io/blanketbyte/wise-mcp:<version> (or :latest), for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64. Use it instead of building from source wherever your platform accepts an image.

Dokploy

DNS: point a hostname (e.g. wise.example.com) at your Dokploy server.
Application: Create Service → Application, source = this repository, branch main, build type Dockerfile, context ..
Domain: your hostname, container port 3000, HTTPS on, certificate Let's Encrypt.
Volume: a named volume mounted at /data (the container runs as uid 1000).

Environment:

PUBLIC_URL=https://wise.example.com
ALLOWED_WISE_USERS=          # empty on the first deploy, see step 7
TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY=        # openssl rand -base64 32

Deploy, then check https://wise.example.com/health.
Find your Wise user id: connect from Claude once. The Not allowed page shows your id: set ALLOWED_WISE_USERS=<id>, redeploy and connect again.

Easypanel

DNS: point a hostname (e.g. wise.example.com) at your Easypanel server.
Service: in a project, + Service → App, name it wise-mcp.
Source: GitHub, owner/repository of this repo, branch main, build path /. (Or Git with the repository URL.)
Build: Dockerfile, file Dockerfile.

Environment:

PUBLIC_URL=https://wise.example.com
ALLOWED_WISE_USERS=          # empty on the first deploy, see step 9
TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY=        # openssl rand -base64 32

Domains: add wise.example.com, HTTPS on, port 3000. Easypanel issues the Let's Encrypt certificate.
Mounts: add a volume mount named data with mount path /data. Without it, sessions and tokens are lost on every redeploy.
Deploy, then check https://wise.example.com/health.
Find your Wise user id: connect once from Claude or ChatGPT. The Not allowed page shows your id: set ALLOWED_WISE_USERS=<id>, deploy again and reconnect.

To redeploy automatically on every push, enable Auto Deploy on the service (it adds a GitHub webhook).

Docker Compose

cp .env.example .env            # fill it in
mkdir -p data && sudo chown 1000:1000 data
docker compose up -d --build    # listens on 127.0.0.1:3000

Connect Claude

In Wise: Settings → API tokens → Add new token. Choose Full access to prepare transfers and recipients, or Read only if you only want answers.
In Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector:
```
https://wise.example.com/mcp
```
Paste the token, choose how long to stay connected, done.

ChatGPT: Settings → Apps & Connectors, turn on Developer mode (under Advanced), then Create a connector with the same /mcp address and OAuth authentication. The same login page opens.

Your server's pages

Once deployed, your server has three pages you can open in a browser. Replace wise.example.com with your own address.

Page	Address	What it's for
🏠 Home	`https://wise.example.com/`	Shows the connector address and step-by-step instructions for Claude and ChatGPT. Open it to check the server is up.
🔑 Login	opens by itself	Appears when you add the connector in Claude or ChatGPT. Paste your Wise API token, choose how long to stay connected, and press Connect Wise. You don't need to open it yourself.
🧾 Manage sessions	`https://wise.example.com/sessions`	Lists every app connected to your Wise account (Claude, ChatGPT, on any device) with when it was connected, last used and when it expires. Revoke one, or all at once. To sign in, paste a Wise API token for your account; it's only used to check who you are and is never stored.

Common situations

"I want to disconnect a device or app." Open Manage sessions and press Revoke next to it.
"I think my token leaked." Delete it in Wise → Settings → API tokens. Every session that used it stops working immediately, and the server deletes its copy. Then reconnect with a new token.
"Claude or ChatGPT says to reconnect." Your session expired or was revoked. Remove and add the connector again; the Login page will open.
"The login page says Not allowed." Your Wise account isn't on this server's allowlist. The page shows your Wise user id: add it to ALLOWED_WISE_USERS and redeploy.

For monitoring there's also https://wise.example.com/health, which returns {"ok":true} when the server is running.

Configuration

Variable	Mode	Default
`WISE_API_TOKEN`	local, required		Wise personal API token
`WRITES_ENABLED`	both	`true`	`false` removes every write tool
`MAX_TRANSFER_AMOUNT`	both	(no limit)	Max per transfer, in the source currency
`DATA_DIR`	both	`~/.wise-mcp` locally, `/data` in Docker	Audit log (and, hosted, sealed tokens and sessions)
`PUBLIC_URL`	remote, required		Public HTTPS origin of the server
`TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY`	remote, required		≥ 32 chars; encrypts stored Wise tokens
`ALLOWED_WISE_USERS`	remote	(nobody)	Comma-separated Wise user ids
`ALLOWED_REDIRECT_HOSTS`	remote	`claude.ai,claude.com,chatgpt.com,localhost,127.0.0.1`	Hosts OAuth clients may redirect to
`PORT`	remote	`3000`

At startup the server logs the allowed users and a short SHA-256 fingerprint of the encryption key, so you can tell which key is deployed without revealing it.

Development

npm install
npm run dev         # remote server with tsx watch (needs the remote env vars)
npm test            # typecheck + both end-to-end suites
npm run e2e         # remote server against a local mock of the Wise API
npm run e2e:stdio   # local mode: spawns the CLI like an MCP client would
npm run mcpb        # builds release/wise-mcp-<version>.mcpb

The remote end-to-end test boots the server next to a mock Wise API and drives everything Claude does: client registration, PKCE login, allowlist, session lengths, refresh rotation, encryption at rest, every tool (amount parsing, pagination, filters), the two-step writes (single-use codes, cross-session isolation, route requirements, cancellation, audit log, read-only tokens), /sessions, and revocation in Wise. The stdio suite covers the CLI, token errors, every tool over stdio, two-step writes, the audit log and read-only mode.

Releasing

Push a tag matching package.json (e.g. v1.1.0). The release workflow runs the tests, publishes @blanketbyte/wise-mcp to npm with provenance (trusted publishing over GitHub OIDC, no npm token stored anywhere), lists it in the official MCP Registry from server.json, attaches the .mcpb to a GitHub release, and pushes the Docker image to ghcr.io/blanketbyte/wise-mcp. Before the first release, remove "private": true from package.json.

src/
  cli.ts               Entry point: `wise-mcp` (stdio) or `wise-mcp serve` (remote)
  stdio.ts             Local mode over stdin/stdout
  index.ts             Remote server: icons, OAuth routes, /login, /sessions, /mcp
  config.ts            Environment validation (shared and remote-only settings)
  meta.ts              Version, paths, links
  crypto.ts            AES-256-GCM sealing, cookie signing
  tools.ts             MCP tools (read + two-step write)
  pending.ts           Prepared actions and one-time confirmation codes
  wise/client.ts       Wise API client (retries, idempotent transfers, revocation detection)
  wise/service.ts      Profiles, balances, activities, transfers, recipients, rates
  wise/connections.ts  Encrypted per-token connections
  auth/provider.ts     OAuth 2.1 provider for Claude, token-paste login
  auth/store.ts        Clients, sessions, hashed tokens
  auth/pages.ts        Login, /sessions and message pages
public/                Logo, icons, favicon
mcpb/manifest.json     Claude Desktop extension manifest
scripts/e2e.ts         Remote end-to-end test with a mock Wise API
scripts/e2e-stdio.ts   Local (stdio) end-to-end test
scripts/build-mcpb.sh  Builds the .mcpb bundle
.github/workflows/     CI, and release to npm + GitHub

Limitations

Personal API tokens can't use every Wise endpoint. In particular, for EU/UK accounts PSD2 rules block balance statements (so there's no running balance per transaction) and the card list. The activity feed covers card payments, so day-to-day spending questions work fine.

On the write side, personal tokens can't fund transfers for EU/UK accounts (you pay them in the Wise app, which this server relies on anyway), and Wise rejects API transfers on business accounts that have payment approval rules.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome; see CONTRIBUTING.md. Please report security problems privately as described in SECURITY.md.

Wise

Add this server

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

Server facts

Tools

Questions

How do I install Wise?

Does Wise need an API key?

What transport does Wise use?

When was Wise last checked?

Documentation

Wise MCP

Why this one

Choose how to run it

Contents

Tools

Read

Write: always two-step

How it works

Two confirmations for every write

Security model

Run locally

Claude Desktop extension (one click)

Claude Code

Codex

Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients

Deploy

Dokploy

Easypanel

Docker Compose

Connect Claude

Your server's pages

Configuration

Development

Releasing

Limitations

Contributing

License