What is openaccountants?
openaccountants is a MCP server by openaccountants that open-source accounting skills reviewed by licensed accountants, covering income tax, VAT and payroll by country, US state and Canadian province. It is listed under Finance & commerce and has 446 GitHub stars.
| Type | Mcp server |
|---|---|
| Author | openaccountants |
| Repository | openaccountants/openaccountants |
| Popularity | 446 GitHub stars |
| Category | Finance & commerce |
| Security | Review before installing (68/100) |
| Rank | #273 of 4,418 MCP servers; #4 in Finance & commerce |
| License | AGPL-3.0 |
| Last commit | 2026-10-17 |
| Stars this week | +12 |
| Runs | Cloud service |
| Language | TypeScript |
Is openaccountants safe to install?
openaccountants scores 68/100 on the MCPMods security check: Review before installing. Things to review: sends your data to a cloud service; can take actions such as send, write or deploy. It passed 2 of 6 checks.
MCP server results come from listing signals: who publishes it, where your data goes and what it can do. The code itself is not scanned yet.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Community-built server | Note |
| Sends your data to a cloud service | Review |
| Needs an API key or account login | Note |
| Can take actions such as send, write or deploy | Review |
| No code execution | Pass |
| Source on GitHub | Pass |
How do I install openaccountants?
- Find the launch command. The README says how the server starts (npx, uvx, docker or a remote URL) and which API keys it needs.
https://github.com/openaccountants/openaccountants
- Add it to Claude Code. Replace the part after -- with the command from the README. Remote servers use --transport http with a URL.
claude mcp add openaccountants -- <command from README> claude mcp add --transport http openaccountants <server-url>
- Check it connected. This lists your MCP servers and their status.
claude mcp list
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs openaccountants for you:
Add the "openaccountants" MCP server from https://github.com/openaccountants/openaccountants to Claude Code. Read its README for the launch command and any API keys I need, run claude mcp add, then check that it connects.