# Plaid

> Use this tool when you need to securely access and interact with bank account data, transactions, and authentication flows to enable financial analysis, automated transaction tracking, or build AI-powered personal finance assistants. It provides a robust bridge to the Plaid financial API, supporting stdio and SSE transports, and offers tools for creating link tokens, exchanging public tokens, and syncing transactions. Ideal for use cases requiring secure and reliable financial data integration, such as building personal finance assistants or automated transaction tracking systems.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/304techmaven-plaid-finance  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/304techmaven-plaid-finance

## Description

Plaid MCP Server provides a robust bridge to the Plaid financial API, enabling AI assistants to securely access and interact with bank account data, transactions, and authentication flows. Built with TypeScript and supporting both stdio and SSE transports, it offers tools for creating link tokens, exchanging public tokens, syncing transactions, and handling Plaid webhooks. The implementation is particularly valuable for financial analysis, automated transaction tracking, and building AI-powered personal finance assistants.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.95
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-19

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** finance
- **Updated:** 2026-09-19

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/304techmaven-plaid-finance)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/304techmaven/plaid-mcp-server>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "304techmaven-plaid-finance"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/304techmaven-plaid-finance` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/304techmaven-plaid-finance/pull`

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