Ntropy Financial Data Enhancement Service

This MCP gateway facilitates the enrichment of transactional and account data by interfacing directly with various operations exposed by the Ntropy API, enabling seamless data processing for sophisticated financial language models.

Implemented Functionalities (Tools)

The service exposes the following atomic operations for interacting with the Ntropy backend:

• verify_api_link: Confirms operational connectivity and health status with the remote Ntropy service.

• Output: Connection status metadata.

• configure_access_token: Dynamically installs or refreshes the required authentication credential (API key).

• Arguments: api_key (string)

• Output: Success/failure report of the credential update.

• provision_entity_owner: Establishes a new record for a financial entity or individual.

• Arguments: id (identifier), type (classification), name (designation)

• Output: The newly instantiated account holder object.

• modify_entity_owner: Adjusts the properties of an existing account holder record.

• Arguments: id (identifier), name (optional new designation), type (optional new classification)

• Output: The fully updated account holder record.

• process_single_transaction_enrichment: Analyzes and enriches the details of one specific bank transaction.

• Arguments: id (transaction identifier), description (raw text), date (timestamp), amount (numeric value), entry_type (inflow/outflow), currency (ISO code), account_holder_id (owner identifier), country (optional location code)

• Output: Enriched transaction data structure.

• retrieve_entity_owner_details: Fetches the complete configuration for a specified account holder.

• Arguments: account_holder_id (owner identifier)

• Output: Detailed account holder configuration.

• enumerate_holder_transactions: Retrieves a paginated list of transactions associated with a specific account holder.

• Arguments: account_holder_id (owner identifier), limit (page size, default 10), offset (starting index, default 0)

• Output: A collection of transaction summaries.

• fetch_transaction_record: Retrieves the full record for an individual transaction.

• Arguments: transaction_id (identifier)

• Output: Complete transaction object.

• batch_enrich_transactions: Processes and enriches an array of transaction records concurrently.

• Arguments: transactions (Array of transaction objects)

• Output: Array containing all enriched transaction results.

• retire_entity_owner: Permanently removes an account holder and all linked data from the system.

• Arguments: account_holder_id (owner identifier)

• Output: Status indicating successful data purging.

• remove_transaction_record: Deletes a singular transaction entry.

• Arguments: transaction_id (identifier)
• Output: Deletion confirmation.

Deployment Prerequisites

To commence utilizing this service, you must first acquire an API access key from Ntropy's portal. Substitute YOUR_NTROPY_API_KEY in the subsequent launch commands with your actual secret credential.

Execution via uvx Utility

Execute the server module using the uvx command-line tool:

bash uvx ntropy-mcp --api-key YOUR_NTROPY_API_KEY

Claude Desktop Integration Setup

For seamless integration within the Claude Desktop application, modify your configuration file. The location varies by operating system:

• MacOS path: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows path: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

If running via uvx: Incorporate the following block into the mcpServers section:

"mcpServers": { "ntropy-mcp": { "command": "uvx", "args": [ "ntropy-mcp", "--api-key", "YOUR_NTROPY_API_KEY" ] } }

If launching via Docker container: Use this alternative configuration structure:

"mcpServers": { "ntropy-mcp": { "command": "docker", "args": [ "run", "-i", "--rm", "ntropy-mcp" "--api-key", "YOUR_NTROPY_API_KEY" ] } }

Operational Examples

Status Check

python

Confirming API reachability and credential validity

connection_result = verify_api_link() print(connection_result)

Account Holder Management

python

Generating a new account holder profile

new_profile = provision_entity_owner( id="client456", type="business", name="Acme Corp Holdings" )

Applying modifications to an existing profile

modified_profile = modify_entity_owner( id="client456", name="Acme Corp Consolidated" )

Transaction Data Processing

python

Detailed enrichment for a single debit record

enriched_record = process_single_transaction_enrichment( id="txn901", description="Subscription Fee - Cloud Service", date="2024-01-20", amount=-99.50, entry_type="debit", currency="EUR", account_holder_id="client456", country="DE" )

Bulk enrichment operation for multiple entries

input_batch = [ { "id": "txn902", "description": "Monthly Payroll Deposit", "date": "2024-01-25", "amount": 5000.00, "entry_type": "credit", "currency": "EUR", "account_holder_id": "client456" }, { "id": "txn903", "description": "Office Supply Purchase", "date": "2024-01-26", "amount": -150.25, "entry_type": "debit", "currency": "EUR", "account_holder_id": "client456" } ] enriched_batch_results = batch_enrich_transactions(input_batch)

Troubleshooting

For diagnostic procedures, utilize the MCP inspector utility. For installations managed by uvx:

bash npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uvx ntropy-mcp --api-key YOUR_NTROPY_API_KEY

Construction Guide

Docker image creation:

bash docker build -t ntropy-mcp .

Contributions

We welcome community input! Please submit enhancements, issue reports, or proposed fixes via pull requests.

Legal Framework

The ntropy-mcp software is distributed under the provisions of the MIT License. Full permissions for usage, modification, and redistribution are granted, subject only to adherence to the terms delineated in the project's LICENSE file.

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