"Six months ago, everyone was talking about MCPs. And I was like, screw MCPs. Every MCP would be better as a CLI."

— Peter Steinberger, Founder of OpenClaw
Watch on YouTube (~2:39:00) | Lex Fridman Podcast #491

Codat Assess API CLI

A production-ready command-line interface for the codat.io Codat Assess API. Financial insights, credit decisions, enhanced reporting directly from your terminal.

Disclaimer: This is an unofficial CLI tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by codat.io.

Features

• Enhanced Reports — Balance sheet, P&L, cash flow with categorized accounts
• Data Integrity — Check data quality and completeness
• Account Categories — Manage and update account categorizations
• API Key Auth — Simple authentication with your Codat API key
• JSON output — All commands support --json for scripting and piping
• Colorized output — Clean, readable terminal output with chalk

Why CLI > MCP

MCP servers are complex, stateful, and require a running server process. A CLI is:

• Simpler — Just a binary you call directly
• Composable — Pipe output to other tools
• Scriptable — Use in shell scripts, CI/CD pipelines, cron jobs
• Debuggable — See exactly what's happening with --json flag
• AI-friendly — AI agents can call CLIs just as easily as MCPs, with less overhead

Installation

npm install -g @ktmcp-cli/codatassess

Authentication Setup

Configure the CLI

codatassess config set --api-key YOUR_API_KEY
# or for token-based:
codatassess config set --access-token YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN

Verify

codatassess config show

Commands

See help for all available commands:

codatassess --help
codatassess <command> --help

JSON Output

All commands support --json for machine-readable output:

codatassess <command> --json

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome at github.com/ktmcp-cli/codatassess.

License

MIT — see LICENSE for details.

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Part of the KTMCP CLI project — replacing MCPs with simple, composable CLIs.

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