scribo-mcp

Scribo MCP Server

Free, AI-native e-invoicing — for any MCP client.

Contents

• What is Scribo?
• What is the Scribo MCP server?
  • Demo
• Getting started
  • Quickstart
  • Setup & prerequisites
• Usage
  • How it works
  • Examples
• Compliance
• FAQ
• Resources
• License

What is Scribo?

Scribo is a free, conversational e-invoicing tool. Describe an invoice in plain language — "bill Acme GmbH €2,400 for May design work" — and it drafts a structured invoice for you to review, download and send directly.

Just ask your AI agent about Scribo: it ships as an MCP server, a CLI, and a Claude/Codex skill, alongside a public HTTP API and a web app. Free forever — no credit card. You just need a sender email.

Built by Causa Prima — Scribo is built by Causa Prima, a company building agentic AI for the CFO office. It's our first freely available skill — an early glimpse of what we're building.

What is the Scribo MCP server?

The Scribo MCP server gives your AI assistant the ability to create invoices for you. It's a hosted Model Context Protocol endpoint — add its URL to your assistant once, then just ask for an invoice and it gathers the details and hands back a finished, compliant invoice in the chat, ready to download and send.

Because it's hosted, there's nothing to install or run locally. It works with any MCP-aware client — Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Cursor, Cline, ChatGPT App, the OpenAI Codex CLI, and others. Free, no signup — your email is all you need.

Demo

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3e1fcca8-580b-448f-bb1c-bee5ee016b54

Getting started

Quickstart

Scribo's MCP server is hosted — there's nothing to install. Point your client at:

https://scribo.causaprima.ai/mcp

In Claude Desktop or Claude.ai: Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector, name it Scribo, paste the URL, and save. Then just ask:

Draft an invoice for 3 days of consulting at €1,200/day to Acme GmbH.

Scribo collects the missing details, verifies your sender email once, and returns a download link.

Using a different client? See the per-client setup below.

Setup & prerequisites

The server speaks MCP over Streamable HTTP (JSON-RPC 2.0, MCP spec ≥ 2025-03-26) with no auth. Any MCP-aware client connects with one setting — the URL https://scribo.causaprima.ai/mcp.

Claude Desktop / Claude.ai — Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector → name Scribo, paste the URL. On Team/Enterprise plans an org owner may need to add it once under Organization settings → Connectors.

Cursor — add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or workspace .cursor/mcp.json):

{ "mcpServers": { "scribo": { "url": "https://scribo.causaprima.ai/mcp" } } }

Cline — add to cline_mcp_settings.json:

{ "mcpServers": { "scribo": { "transport": "streamable-http", "url": "https://scribo.causaprima.ai/mcp" } } }

OpenAI Codex CLI — add to ~/.codex/config.toml, then restart Codex:

[mcp_servers.scribo]
url = "https://scribo.causaprima.ai/mcp"

Any other MCP client — configure a remote server at the URL above, transport Streamable HTTP, no auth.

Prefer a plain-bash setup with no connector in the loop? The Scribo skill covers Claude Code, Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, and Codex via simple helper scripts.

Verify. Ask your assistant: "list the jurisdictions Scribo supports."

Usage

How it works

You describe the invoice in plain language; your assistant calls Scribo's tools to build it. The server exposes four tools:

Tool	What it does
create_invoice	Generates a compliant invoice from the sender, recipient, and line-item details, and returns a durable download link.
verify_email_code	Confirms ownership of the sender email using the 6-digit code Scribo emails on the first invoice.
get_invoice	Re-fetches a previously generated invoice and a fresh download link.
list_supported_jurisdictions	Lists which countries and formats are available.

A typical flow: you ask for an invoice → your assistant calls create_invoice and collects anything missing → on your first invoice from a new sender email, Scribo asks you to paste a 6-digit code (confirmed via verify_email_code) → your assistant retries and hands back a download link — a PDF with the matching EN 16931 XML embedded. On clients that render widgets (e.g. the ChatGPT App), the invoice appears as a card with a download button.