Is Formanator safe to use?

Formanator has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Formanator?

Formanator can be installed by cloning its GitHub repository and following the setup instructions in the README.

What AI clients work with Formanator?

Formanator is compatible with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, and most MCP clients that support stdio transport. It uses stdio transport.

Is Formanator actively maintained?

Formanator is actively maintained — last commit was 1 day ago. It has 82 GitHub stars.

Formanator

Name: Formanator
Author: timrogers

by timrogers

Submit and manage Forma (https://joinforma.com) claims from the command line and Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients

82 0 tools GitHub

No known CVEs

MIT license

Actively maintained

Last commit 1d ago

Untested

Transport: stdio

0 tools

Grade F

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Untested on Claude Desktopstdio · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "formanator": {
      "command": "<see-readme>",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

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What Formanator does

Submit and manage Forma (https://joinforma.com) claims from the command line and Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients

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Is Formanator safe to use?: Formanator has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Formanator?: Formanator can be installed by cloning its GitHub repository and following the setup instructions in the README.
What AI clients work with Formanator?: Formanator is compatible with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, and most MCP clients that support stdio transport. It uses stdio transport.
Is Formanator actively maintained?: Formanator is actively maintained — last commit was 1 day ago. It has 82 GitHub stars.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Untested on Claude Desktopstdio · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "formanator": {
      "command": "<see-readme>",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

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What Formanator does

Submit and manage Forma (https://joinforma.com) claims from the command line and Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients

Test This Server

No automated test available for this server. Check the GitHub README for setup instructions.

README

Formanator 🤖

[!NOTE] 🦀 Formanator is now built with Rust and distributed through Homebrew and Crates.io! v2.x, built in TypeScript and distributed through npm, is still available.

Formanator allows you to:

Submit benefit claims to Forma and track progress from the command line, either one-by-one or in bulk
Understand your Forma benefits and track and submit claims from any Model Context Protocol (MCP) client, for example Copilot CLI, Visual Studio Code or Claude Code

With the power of large language models 🧠👀 - free of charge thanks to GitHub Models - it can even analyse your receipts and generate your claims automatically.

Installation

macOS or Linux via Homebrew

brew tap timrogers/tap && brew install formanator

macOS, Linux, or Windows via Cargo, Rust's package manager

Install Rust on your machine, if it isn't already installed.
Install the formanator crate by running cargo install formanator.
Run formanator --help to check that everything is working and see the available commands.

macOS, Linux, or Windows via direct binary download

Download the latest release for your platform. macOS, Linux, and Windows devices are supported.
Add the binary to your PATH (or $PATH on Unix-like systems), so you can execute it from your shell/terminal. For the best experience, call it formanator (or formanator.exe on Windows).
Run formanator --help to check that everything is working.

From source

git clone https://github.com/timrogers/formanator
cd formanator
cargo install --path .

Optional: PDF receipt support

To infer claim details for PDF receipts, you need to have GraphicsMagick and Ghostscript installed.

# macOS
brew install graphicsmagick ghostscript

Usage

Connecting to your Forma account

To get started, you'll need to connect Formanator to your Forma account:

Run formanator login.
Press Enter to open your browser to the Forma login page.
Enter your email address and request a magic link.
Copy the magic link from your email and paste it into the terminal.
You're logged in 🥳

The access token is stored in ~/.formanatorrc.json (the same location used by the original Node.js implementation, so the two clients can share state).

Configuring an LLM provider (optional, but recommended)

When submitting a claim you can either provide every detail manually or let an LLM infer them. Two providers are supported:

GitHub Models — free, with a generous quota. Set the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable to a GitHub Personal Access Token with read access to GitHub Models, or pass --github-token.
OpenAI — billed to your OpenAI account. Set the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable, or pass --openai-api-key.

If both are configured, Formanator prefers OpenAI.

Submitting claims in bulk

Automatically submitting all receipts in a directory (recommended)

formanator submit-claims-from-directory --directory input/

All .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .pdf and .heic receipts in the directory will be analysed by the LLM. You'll be asked to confirm the inferred claim details for each receipt before it's submitted, and successfully-submitted re

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Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

31/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−69

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

No package registry to scan.

Help improve this page

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Formanator safe to use?: Formanator has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Formanator?: Formanator can be installed by cloning its GitHub repository and following the setup instructions in the README.
What AI clients work with Formanator?: Formanator is compatible with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, and most MCP clients that support stdio transport. It uses stdio transport.
Is Formanator actively maintained?: Formanator is actively maintained — last commit was 1 day ago. It has 82 GitHub stars.