# `app.pivotbank/pivotbank` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/app.pivotbank/pivotbank
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/app.pivotbank/pivotbank
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: app.pivotbank (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:44:55.017Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
PivotBank
Convert bank statement PDFs to Excel, CSV, OFX or QBO, every row checked against the balances.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:43:10.263Z over streamable-http.

**4 tools: 2 change things and 2 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 2 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 2 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (2)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `check_statement_balances`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Use this when the user asks whether a bank statement is complete, correct or genuine, or why its numbers do not add up. Reads the PDF and checks every row against the statement's own running balances: opening plus money in minus money out must land on the closing balance to the cent. Says whether it does, and names the rows where it breaks. Free with a PivotBank account.
```

### `convert_statement`

- The name "convert_statement" says "convert": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Use this when the user wants a bank statement or credit card statement PDF turned into a spreadsheet: Excel (xlsx), CSV, QuickBooks (QBO), Xero (OFX), Quicken (QIF) or JSON. Reads every transaction (date, description, money in, money out, balance) and checks them against the statement's own running balances, so the reading is proved rather than guessed. Saves the statement to the user's PivotBank account and returns a link to download it in any of those formats. Needs the user to sign in to PivotBank; agents may instead send a Pro API key as 'Authorization: Bearer pvb_live_...'.
```

## Only reads (2)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `list_supported_banks`

- The name "list_supported_banks" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Lists the banks PivotBank recognises by name, for one country (ISO 3166 alpha-2, e.g. GB, US, ZA) or for all. A statement from a bank not listed still converts: the reader works from the layout, not a per-bank template.
```

### `summarise_spending`

- The name "summarise_spending" says "summarise": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Use this when the user wants to know where their money went from a bank statement PDF: money in and out, spending by category, top merchants and repeating payments such as subscriptions. Free with a PivotBank account.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `pivotbank`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__pivotbank__summarise_spending",
      "mcp__pivotbank__list_supported_banks"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__pivotbank__convert_statement",
      "mcp__pivotbank__check_statement_balances"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```