mcp-malt

mcp-malt

An MCP server for the Malt API. It covers all 13 operations Malt publishes: the invoices you issue, the commission Malt bills you, the payments you receive, and SCIM user provisioning for organization accounts.

What this does and does not cover

Malt's API is smaller than most people expect. It covers back office billing and enterprise user provisioning, and nothing else:

There is no talent search, no profiles, no missions, no offers, and no messaging. Those are what Malt is known for, and none of them are in the public API. If that is what you came for, this server cannot give it to you, and neither can anything else built on the documented API.

Two community MCP servers for Malt do reach that data, by driving the web app with browser automation and scraping the DOM. Their own documentation warns that automating profile edits may breach Malt's terms of service. This server only calls the documented API.

Getting a token

1. Create an identity on the signup page if you do not have one.
2. Open My Account, then API Keys.
3. Create an access token with the permission scopes you need. Match them to the toolsets you plan to enable.
4. Copy the token straight away. It is shown once, at creation, and never again.

Freelancer account tokens are self served. Client team and organization tokens, which the scim toolset needs, come through your Malt representative.

There is no OAuth 2.0 here. Malt publishes no authorization server and no token endpoint, so the API token above is the only way in. docs/authentication.md explains this in more detail, including the header detail that trips most people up.

Install

Published three ways from one release: the npm package on npmjs and on GitHub Packages, and the container image on GHCR. npx is the usual choice for an MCP client; Docker suits a locked-down or shared setup.

Pin a version in the examples below. An MCP server runs with your API token, so an unpinned @latest means a new release starts running on your machine without you choosing it.

npm install @ialejandro/[email protected]

To move to a newer version, bump the number in your client config and restart the client. The releases page lists what changed in each one.

To install from GitHub Packages instead of npmjs, point the scope at it: @ialejandro:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com in your .npmrc.

npx

// Claude Desktop: claude_desktop_config.json
// Cursor: .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "malt": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@ialejandro/[email protected]"],
      "env": {
        "MALT_API_TOKEN": "your-token-here",
        "MALT_TOOLSETS": "invoices,payments,fee-invoices"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add malt \
  --env MALT_API_TOKEN=your-token-here \
  --env MALT_TOOLSETS=invoices,payments,fee-invoices \
  -- npx -y @ialejandro/[email protected]

Docker

The server speaks JSON-RPC over stdin and stdout, so -i is required and -t must be left off.

docker run -i --rm \
  -e MALT_API_TOKEN=your-token-here \
  -e MALT_TOOLSETS=invoices \
  ghcr.io/ialejandro/mcp-malt:1.0.0

// Claude Desktop: claude_desktop_config.json
// Cursor: .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "malt": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run", "-i", "--rm",
        "-e", "MALT_API_TOKEN",
        "-e", "MALT_TOOLSETS",
        "ghcr.io/ialejandro/mcp-malt:1.0.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MALT_API_TOKEN": "your-token-here",
        "MALT_TOOLSETS": "invoices,payments,fee-invoices"
      }
    }
  }
}

From source

git clone https://github.com/ialejandro/mcp-malt
cd mcp-malt
npm ci && npm run build

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "malt": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/mcp-malt/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "MALT_API_TOKEN": "your-token-here",
        "MALT_TOOLSETS": "invoices,payments,fee-invoices"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "malt": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run", "-i", "--rm",
        "-e", "MALT_API_TOKEN",
        "-e", "MALT_TOOLSETS",
        "ghcr.io/ialejandro/mcp-malt:1.0.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MALT_API_TOKEN": "your-token-here",
        "MALT_TOOLSETS": "invoices,payments,fee-invoices"
      }
    }
  }
}

Configuration

With no MALT_TOOLSETS the server starts and offers nothing. That is deliberate, not a failure: you decide what a model gets to see. Add toolsets one at a time.

An unknown toolset name stops the server with an error rather than being ignored, because a typo that silently costs you three tools is miserable to debug.

Common tasks

Reconcile a quarter. Enable invoices,payments,fee-invoices and run the malt_reconcile_revenue prompt. It pulls all three lists, matches payments to the invoices they settle, and reports gross billed, tax, Malt's commission, and cash received.

Reconcile my Malt revenue for Q1 2026.

Get an invoice PDF. Malt returns PDFs base64-encoded inside a JSON body. The tools decode them and hand back a real PDF attachment.

Download the PDF for invoice INV-123456.

Offboard someone. Enable scim with MALT_ALLOW_WRITES=true and use malt_user_lifecycle. It deactivates rather than deletes, which is the path Malt actually supports.

Offboard [email protected] from our Malt organization.

Documentation

• Getting and managing a token
• Authentication, and why there is no OAuth
• Toolsets: what to enable and when
• Every endpoint, with requests and responses
• Errors and what they mean
• Rate limits
• Extending the server

Development

npm ci
npm run typecheck
npm test
npm run build
npm run check-spec   # diff the live Malt spec against spec/malt-openapi.json

Tests mock fetch and never call the live API.

spec/malt-openapi.json is a committed snapshot of Malt's published document. A daily workflow diffs the live spec against it and opens a PR when anything moves. Malt has kept info.version at 0.0.1 throughout, so the check compares operations rather than trusting the version number.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. Adding an endpoint or a toolset is described in docs/extending.md.

License

MIT