Camt053 MCP Server

camt053-mcp: An MCP Server for ISO 20022 Bank Statements

A Model Context Protocol server that exposes the camt053 ISO 20022 Bank Statement library as tools for AI agents and assistants — discover message types and return reasons, inspect input schemas, validate records and financial identifiers, parse incoming statements, and generate validated reversing-entry XML, all from your favourite MCP client.

Latest release: v0.0.5 — ten MCP tools over stdio, all backed by the shared camt053.services layer, for Python 3.10+. See what's new →

Contents

• Overview
• Install
• Quick Start
• Tools
• Prompts
• Resources
• Using the tools
• The camt053 suite
• When not to use camt053-mcp
• Development
• Security
• Documentation
• License
• Contributing
• Acknowledgements

Overview

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI agents and assistants discover and call external tools in a uniform way. camt053-mcp is an MCP server that turns the camt053 library into a set of first-class agent tools, so an assistant can read and reverse ISO 20022 camt.05x cash-management messages — the standardised bank-to-customer account reports, statements, and debit/credit notifications — directly from a conversation.

The headline capability is the one-shot reversing-entry workflow: read an incoming camt.053 statement, find the entries carrying a return reason code (e.g. AC04 Closed Account), and emit a validated reversing entry.

Every tool is a thin, typed wrapper over camt053.services — the single shared facade also used by the CLI and REST API — so all interfaces behave identically. Tools return JSON-serialisable data; on an error they return an {"error": ...} payload rather than raising.

• Website: https://sebastienrousseau.github.io/camt053/
• Source code: https://github.com/sebastienrousseau/camt053-mcp
• Bug reports: https://github.com/sebastienrousseau/camt053-mcp/issues

This package is part of the camt053 suite — a set of independently installable packages that share the camt053.services layer:

• camt053 — the core library (CLI + REST API)
• camt053-mcp — this package, the Model Context Protocol server
• camt053-lsp — the Language Server Protocol server for editors

flowchart LR
    A["MCP client<br/>(Claude Desktop, IDE, agent)"] -->|stdio| B["camt053-mcp"]
    B -->|delegates to| C["camt053.services"]
    C -->|parse + reverse + validate| D["ISO 20022 camt.053 XML"]

Install

camt053-mcp runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows and requires Python 3.10+ and pip. It pulls in the core camt053 library and the MCP SDK automatically.

python -m pip install camt053-mcp

Note: while the core camt053 library is not yet on PyPI, install it from source first:

python -m pip install "git+https://github.com/sebastienrousseau/camt053.git"
python -m pip install camt053-mcp

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate        # macOS/Linux
venv\Scripts\activate           # Windows
python -m pip install -U camt053-mcp

Quick Start

For the 10-minute install → MCP client config → first conversation tutorial, see docs/quickstart.md.

Launch the server over stdio (the FastMCP default transport):

camt053-mcp

Register it with any MCP client (e.g. Claude Desktop) by adding it to the client's configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "camt053": { "command": "camt053-mcp" }
  }
}

The agent can then call the tools below to parse incoming statements and generate validated reversing entries on demand.

Tools

All tools delegate to the shared camt053.services layer, so they behave identically to the CLI and REST API.

Pagination

list_entries and filter_entries accept optional offset (default 0) and limit (default None) parameters. When limit is omitted they return the full list, exactly as before. When limit is given they return a paginated envelope instead:

{"total": 42, "offset": 10, "limit": 5, "entries": [/* ... */]}

A negative offset or limit returns an {"error": ...} payload, consistent with the rest of the server's error convention.

Prompts

reversal_preview takes an optional reason_code (default "AC04") and returns a four-step message template: parse the statement, preview the matching entries with filter_entries, confirm with the operator, then call generate_reversal. The other three prompts take no parameters and return a two-message user-prompt + assistant-walkthrough template the agent can replay verbatim.

Resources

Resources give an agent read-only reference context it can load without calling a tool. Each resource returns a JSON payload.

Both back onto the shared camt053.services layer, so they stay in sync with the equivalent list_return_reasons / list_message_types tools. On an error they return a serialised {"error": ...} payload.

Note: A validate_statement MCP tool is deferred to a later release — it depends on a core camt053.services.validate_statement API that ships with camt053 0.0.2.

Using the tools

You can invoke the tools in-process — without a transport — straight through the FastMCP instance. This mirrors what an agent receives over stdio. The runnable version of this snippet lives in examples/mcp_tools.py.

import asyncio

from camt053_mcp.server import server

# A complete camt.053 statement with one entry returned AC04 (Closed Account).
statement_xml = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Document xmlns="urn:iso:std:iso:20022:tech:xsd:camt.053.001.14">
  <BkToCstmrStmt>
    <GrpHdr><MsgId>STMT-MSG-0001</MsgId><CreDtTm>2026-06-15T08:00:00</CreDtTm></GrpHdr>
    <Stmt>
      <Id>STMT-0001</Id><CreDtTm>2026-06-15T08:00:00</CreDtTm>
      <Acct><Id><IBAN>GB29NWBK60161331926819</IBAN></Id><Ccy>EUR</Ccy></Acct>
      <Bal><Tp><CdOrPrtry><Cd>CLBD</Cd></CdOrPrtry></Tp>
        <Amt Ccy="EUR">10000.00</Amt><CdtDbtInd>CRDT</CdtDbtInd>
        <Dt><Dt>2026-06-15</Dt></Dt></Bal>
      <Ntry>
        <NtryRef>NTRY-0001</NtryRef>
        <Amt Ccy="EUR">1500.00</Amt><CdtDbtInd>CRDT</CdtDbtInd>
        <Sts><Cd>BOOK</Cd></Sts>
        <NtryDtls><TxDtls>
          <RtrInf><Rsn><Cd>AC04</Cd></Rsn></RtrInf>
        </TxDtls></NtryDtls>
      </Ntry>
    </Stmt>
  </BkToCstmrStmt>
</Document>"""


async def main() -> None:
    async def call(name, args):
        result = await server.call_tool(name, args)
        content = result[0] if isinstance(result, tuple) else result
        return content[0].text if content else ""

    # Validate an identifier.
    print(await call("validate_identifier",
                     {"kind": "bic", "value": "NWBKGB2LXXX"}))
    # -> {"kind": "bic", "value": "NWBKGB2LXXX", "valid": true}

    # Page through the matching entries (paginated envelope).
    print(await call("filter_entries",
                     {"xml": statement_xml, "reason_code": "AC04",
                      "offset": 0, "limit": 5}))
    # -> {"total": 1, "offset": 0, "limit": 5, "entries": [...]}

    # Generate a validated reversing-entry document for the AC04 entries.
    xml = await call("generate_reversal",
                     {"xml": statement_xml, "reason_code": "AC04"})
    print(xml[:46])  # -> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> ...


asyncio.run(main())

Run it directly:

python examples/mcp_tools.py

The camt053 suite

camt053-mcp is part of a set of independently installable packages built around the camt053 library — pick whichever ones your stack needs:

Every tool here is a thin typed wrapper over camt053.services — the same facade the CLI, REST API, and LSP use — so all four interfaces behave identically.

When not to use camt053-mcp

• You have no MCP client. This server only makes sense paired with an MCP-aware host (Claude Desktop, the IDE plugins, an agent framework). For scripted / CI use, the camt053 CLI and REST API cover the same ground without the stdio protocol overhead.
• You need to run as a long-lived daemon. This server speaks MCP stdio: an MCP client launches it as a subprocess, sends JSON-RPC over stdin / stdout, and shuts it down. A persistent worker is not the right pattern.
• You need streaming responses. Tool calls return whole values, not streams. Large statements are paginated through the existing list_entries(xml, offset, limit) envelope, not chunked over multiple responses.
• You need authentication. This server has no auth; it is designed to run as a local subprocess inside an MCP client. Multi-tenant / network deployments need a proxy layer in front.
• You need to generate pain.001 outbound payment files. Out of scope; use pain001-mcp.

Development

camt053-mcp uses Poetry and mise.

git clone https://github.com/sebastienrousseau/camt053-mcp.git && cd camt053-mcp
mise install
poetry install
poetry shell

This package depends on the core camt053 library. Until it is on PyPI, install it from source first: pip install "git+https://github.com/sebastienrousseau/camt053.git".

A Makefile orchestrates the quality gates (kept in lockstep with CI):

make check        # all gates (REQUIRED before commit)
make test         # pytest
make lint         # ruff + black
make type-check   # mypy --strict

Security

camt053-mcp is a thin wrapper — every tool delegates to camt053.services, where the defence-in-depth (defusedxml + xml_guard byte cap + DOCTYPE / ENTITY pre-flight) lives. Tools catch (ValueError, Camt053Error) and return an {"error": ...} envelope per the suite convention; they never propagate raw exceptions to the MCP client. Reporting practice, supported versions, and the full supply-chain posture are documented in SECURITY.md. Vulnerabilities go via GitHub Private Vulnerability Reporting, not public issues.

Documentation

• README.md — this file
• CHANGELOG.md — release notes
• SECURITY.md — disclosure + supported versions
• SUPPORT.md — how to get help
• MAINTAINERS.md — who can merge
• examples/ — runnable scripts
• glama.json — Glama directory manifest
• Glama listing: https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/sebastienrousseau/camt053-mcp

Related MCP Servers

Part of the ISO 20022 MCP Suite — open-source, Apache-2.0 licensed MCP servers for banking and financial-services AI agents:

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MCP Registry

mcp-name: io.github.sebastienrousseau/camt053-mcp

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License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Any contribution submitted for inclusion shall be licensed as above, without additional terms.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome — see the contributing instructions. Thanks to all contributors.

Acknowledgements

Built on the camt053 ISO 20022 Bank Statement library and the Model Context Protocol Python SDK.