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MCP Credit Note in VS Code

Credit notes against an invoice or standalone: drafts, finalization, rendering and totals, all in integer minor units. You issue a credit note against an invoice or standalone: the recipient, the reason (returned goods, overcharge, discount correction, service issue, other), line items with quantity, unit price and tax rate, and the currency. Every credit note starts as a draft with a CN-DRAFT id no client sees; credit_note_finalize burns the final CN-YYYY-NNNN number in the issue date's year and freezes it, because a finalized credit note is a document the client may have seen, and it can neither be edited nor deleted from there. The counter is written before the record, so a crash burns a number rather than reusing one, and the final series never has a gap. credit_note_render returns Markdown to paste into an email or a self-contained printable HTML page, drafts marked with a DRAFT banner, and credit_note_summary totals what was credited per currency, reason and month.

In agent mode the line math is the thing not to simplify: gross is quantity times unit price rounded half-up once, tax is per line on its own base, and the totals are plain integer sums of the already-rounded lines, so the printed document reproduces on a calculator and an agent restating a line rounds nothing twice.

What you get in VS Code

The line math is documented so the printed document reproduces on a calculator: gross is quantity times unit price rounded half-up once, tax is per line rounded half-up on its own base, and the note totals are plain integer sums of the already-rounded line values. On the worked note, 3 x 2,499 at 23% and 1 x 999 at 23% and 1 x 1,200 untaxed give subtotal 9,696, tax 1,954 and total 11,650, and 2.5 x 3,333 rounds half-up to 8,333, never banker's 8,332. The unit suite asserts both.

Install it in VS Code

The file is .vscode/mcp.json, and the key inside it is servers.

If you also run Claude Desktop, the shortest path there is one click: credit-note.mcpb from the latest release opens as an extension, with no JSON and no terminal. VS Code reads its own config, so here it is:

// .vscode/mcp.json  (the key is "servers")
{
  "servers": {
    "credit-note": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/mcp-servers/servers/credit-note/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

Or from a terminal:

code --add-mcp '{"name":"credit-note","command":"node","args":["/absolute/path/to/mcp-servers/servers/credit-note/dist/index.js"]}'

The node command above wants a built file. From a clone, once:

git clone https://github.com/theluckystrike/mcp-servers.git
cd mcp-servers && npm install
npm run build -w packages/mcp-license -w servers/credit-note

That writes servers/credit-note/dist/index.js, and its absolute path is the one argument the config needs.

The npm packages are not published yet, so the form below returns a 404 today. It is here because it is what the entry becomes the day the publish lands, with nothing else changed:

code --add-mcp '{"name":"credit-note","command":"npx","args":["-y","@theluckystrike/mcp-credit-note"]}'

VS Code asks you to confirm you trust the server and its capabilities before it starts. Nothing runs until you answer.

Nothing is published to npm yet, so the working install paths are the ones above: the .mcpb bundle from the latest release, a clone and build, or the hosted URL.

No install: the hosted endpoint

There is no hosted endpoint for this one yet. MCP Credit Note runs locally over stdio with the config above, which is also the only form in which it reads and writes files on your own disk. Thirty of the servers in this collection are served at https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/<name> over MCP streamable HTTP; https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/connect lists them and prints a ready URL for each.

VS Code notes worth knowing first

The top-level key is "servers", not "mcpServers". A config pasted from a Claude Desktop or Cursor README parses cleanly, contributes no servers, and gives you no error to read, which makes it the most expensive one-word mistake here. Alongside it an "inputs" array holds secrets. The newer Agent Host reads a workspace .mcp.json instead.

Free: Ten finalized credit notes, lifetime. Drafts, edits, deletion of drafts, listing, reading, rendering and the totals summary are free and unlimited on every tier, because finalizing is the metered act: that is what turns a draft into the document the client sees. Free renders carry a one-line footer. Pro is $19 once, verified offline.

Questions

Why does my mcp.json do nothing?

The key is servers, not mcpServers. A config copied from a Claude Desktop README parses cleanly and contributes nothing. Rename it. On the newer Agent Host, use a workspace .mcp.json instead.

Do I have to edit the file at all?

No. code --add-mcp takes the server object on the command line, and MCP: Add Server in the palette asks whether the target is Workspace or Global.

Where do the MCP Credit Note tools show up?

In Chat, behind the tools picker, once the server has started. Adding or changing one raises a prompt asking you to confirm you trust it; if the picker is empty, that prompt is usually still waiting.

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