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Economico for Claude Code

Claude Code is Anthropic's coding agent for the terminal, IDE, and desktop — and one of the two agents that drive Economico natively over MCP. Add the MCP server (or the CLI), sign in once, and the same agent you use to ship code keeps real, GAAP-shaped books for your startup.

What Claude Code is

Claude Code is Anthropic's official agentic coding tool. It runs in your terminal, your IDE (VS Code, JetBrains), and the desktop and web apps, and it's an MCP host — so it can connect to external tool servers like Economico and call their tools directly inside a session. It supports MCP over HTTP with OAuth, which is exactly how Economico authenticates.

Connect Economico — MCP (recommended)

Add the Economico MCP server. Claude Code runs the OAuth browser flow itself: point it at the endpoint, and on first use it opens the sign-in page (new email creates a business; a known email logs in), then receives its tokens.

Add the MCP server

claude mcp add economico https://economi.co/mcp

That's it. The next time you talk to Claude Code, the Economico tools are available. Ask it to check the connection:

Verify

Which Economico business am I connected to? Show my chart of accounts.

Connect Economico — CLI or skill pack

Prefer the shell path, or want the full CFO playbooks? Install the CLI, or install the cfo-skills pack straight into Claude Code:

CFO skill pack (Claude Code native)

/plugin marketplace add economico/cfo-skills

Or the CLI

npm install -g @economico/cli
economico login

Or hand it the skill and let it choose CLI or MCP for you:

Set up Economico per https://economi.co/skill.md

What to run once connected

Plain-language prompts — Claude Code picks the tools, does the double-entry, and posts to a real ledger. Copy one and try it:

Invoice a customer

Create and send an invoice to Acme for $4,000 for March consulting, NET-30.

Record a bill against a credit

Record the AWS bill for $1,200 and draw it down against our Activate credit.

Close the month

Summarize this month's invoiced, paid, outstanding, and recognized revenue.

Make a decision

What's my cash runway and burn rate, and what happens if I make one $9k/mo hire? Model it as a scenario.

Get investor-ready

Prepare my SaaS metrics — MRR, ARR, NRR, burn multiple — for last month.

Frequently asked questions

Does Claude Code use MCP or the CLI for Economico?

Either. Claude Code is an MCP host, so claude mcp add economico https://economi.co/mcp is the most direct path. It also runs shell commands, so the @economico/cli package works too. Pick one — they expose the same tools.

Do I have to give Claude Code the keys to the kingdom?

No. Economico is scoped to one OAuth token for your books — not your bank, email, or cloud credentials. Your agent already reaches your inbox and CRM; it brings that context to Economico. Economico holds no standing access to those systems.

Is it safe if the agent retries?

Yes. Send-invoice, record-payment, and void-invoice are idempotent, so a retry or re-prompt never double-posts to your books.