One file that teaches the agent the door,
and where it ends
Clients differ; the agent behind them does not. The skill names the commands, the JSON envelope, the exit codes and the one rule that paying waits for a person. An agent reads it once instead of guessing.
Server URL: https://app.orla.finance/api/mcp/personal
Setup
Install the file where your agent looks
The skill is not a client. It teaches the agent you already run which commands to call and where to stop.
You tick which spaces the client may reach, and one row in the app revokes it later. Card numbers and IBANs stay masked unless you switch that on.
- Install the skillnpx skills add cheetah-trade/orla-cli puts it where your agent looks. Claude Code takes it as a plugin, with four bookkeeping skills beside it and the personal MCP connection they run on.
- Or just read itorla.finance/skill.md is the same file the package ships, served from the published version.
- Then sign in onceThe first orla command opens the browser on Orla's consent page. The skill tells the agent to stop and wait for you there.
terminal
# the skills CLI, into any agent it knows
npx skills add cheetah-trade/The skill covers both doors: what a personal connection reads and records, and what an agent with a key of its own may do inside its ceilings. It says in plain words that only an executed payment with a reference means the money left.
If the menus have moved, the orla-cli repository is current for the client itself.
What to ask
What an agent does after reading it
Every figure comes from your own books, and is recomputed each time you ask.
- Record yesterday's 40 EUR taxi to Transport, and tell me the id.
- Which of my spaces does this connection reach?
- Export August as CSV for the accountant.
The boundary
It reads and records.
It does not pay
An agent that pays is a different connection, with its own wallet and its own limits.
- What it cannot doPay anyone. The payment tools are not in the list it is given, and are refused by name if asked.
- What it costsNothing, and it takes none of the agent seats in your plan. Reading is unmetered; what it records comes out of your plan's monthly allowance of agent writes, and the free plan has a small one.
Other clients
The same connection,
seen from another chair
- Claude →A custom connector in Settings, nothing to install.
- Claude Code →One command in the terminal, then /mcp to sign in.
- Cursor →One entry in mcp.json, globally or in the repository.
- VS Code →One entry under servers, or one code --add-mcp line.
- Zed →One entry under context_servers in settings.json.
- Windsurf →One entry with serverUrl in the Codeium config.
- Terminal →The CLI itself, and a stdio bridge for clients without HTTP.
Write your first mandate
on a thirty minute call
On your own books: one position, one rule, and the first bill waiting for your button.