# io.github.GillMacedo/chargescout (npm · chargescout)

Find subscriptions, price increases and double charges in a bank statement CSV, on your machine.

- Trust score: 74/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- npm · `chargescout`: 74/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/gillmacedo-chargescout/chargescout.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/gillmacedo-chargescout/chargescout)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `chargescout`
- Version: `0.2.0`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 48/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 3 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 77/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 257 tokens (~128/item across 2 items; 2 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 17/100
  - Stability observed for 5 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 2 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 2 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the io.github.GillMacedo/chargescout MCP server?

io.github.GillMacedo/chargescout runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y chargescout. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add gillmacedo-chargescout -- npx -y chargescout
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gillmacedo-chargescout": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "chargescout"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "gillmacedo-chargescout": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "chargescout"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add gillmacedo-chargescout -- npx -y chargescout
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "gillmacedo-chargescout": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "chargescout"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add gillmacedo-chargescout --command npx --arg -y --arg chargescout
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  gillmacedo-chargescout:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "chargescout"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "gillmacedo-chargescout": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "chargescout"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add gillmacedo-chargescout -t stdio -c npx -a -y chargescout
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gillmacedo-chargescout": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "chargescout"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 72, +16)

- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [security] Stability: Stability not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the MCP schema this version of the package serves yet.
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.1.0 → 0.2.0

### 2026-10-31 (score 56)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (2)

### `subscriptions_find` (~187 tokens)

Find subscriptions and recurring charges

Finds subscriptions and other recurring charges in a bank or card statement CSV, with billing cycle, yearly cost, price increases and possible double charges. Use to audit spending or find what to cancel. Read-only, and never uses the network. Results include merchant names and amounts from the file, so they reach the model. It can't cancel anything.

Input parameters:

- `columns` (object): Column names by field (date, amount, credit, debit, description), when detection fails
- `date_format` (string): dmy or mdy, needed only if the tool reports that dates are ambiguous
- `limit` (null|integer): Most findings to return, default 100. 0 returns only the totals
- `path` (string, required): Path to the bank or card statement CSV
- `positive_out` (boolean): Set if the file shows charges as positive numbers, as many card statements do

Output parameters:

- `active_count` (integer)
- `active_yearly_total` (string)
- `finding_count` (integer)
- `findings` (null|array)
- `skipped_rows` (null|array)
- `statement_end` (string)
- `truncated` (boolean)
- `warnings` (null|array)

### `subscriptions_inspect_csv` (~70 tokens)

Inspect a statement CSV

Shows which columns chargescout detects in a statement CSV and how many rows it can read, without returning row contents. Use if the file is unfamiliar or nothing was found.

Input parameters:

- `date_format` (string): dmy or mdy
- `path` (string, required): Path to the statement CSV

Output parameters:

- `columns` (object)
- `date_format` (string)
- `skipped_rows` (integer)
- `transactions` (integer)
- `warnings` (null|array)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/gillmacedo-chargescout/chargescout#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 74
- 2026-11-04: 73
- 2026-11-03: 73
- 2026-11-02: 72
- 2026-11-01: 72
- 2026-10-31: 56

## Common questions

### What is the io.github.GillMacedo/chargescout MCP server?

io.github.GillMacedo/chargescout is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.GillMacedo/chargescout. Find subscriptions, price increases and double charges in a bank statement CSV, on your machine. This page covers its npm package (chargescout).

### Is the io.github.GillMacedo/chargescout MCP server safe to use?

io.github.GillMacedo/chargescout scores 74 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the io.github.GillMacedo/chargescout MCP server expose?

io.github.GillMacedo/chargescout exposes 2 tools: subscriptions_find, subscriptions_inspect_csv. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 257 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the io.github.GillMacedo/chargescout MCP server still maintained?

io.github.GillMacedo/chargescout is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the io.github.GillMacedo/chargescout MCP server under?

io.github.GillMacedo/chargescout declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/chargescout
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/chargescout
- Repository: https://github.com/GillMacedo/chargescout
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/gillmacedo-chargescout/chargescout.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/gillmacedo-chargescout/chargescout.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/gillmacedo-chargescout/chargescout