# Connect your AI assistant

sakto runs an MCP server (Model Context Protocol). An AI assistant connected to it reads sakto's checked figures with their sources, and sakto checks the figures it writes against the books.

AI assistants are off for a new team. Only the team's owner can turn them on or off, for the whole team: Home → Team, “Allow AI assistants”.

## The server's address

```
https://sakto.ai/api/mcp
```

## How to connect

claude.ai: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, with this address. You sign in to sakto and approve the connection there; no token needed.

Claude Code, Claude Desktop or another assistant that sends a token: create one in sakto under Home → Connect AI assistant. sakto shows it only once.

Claude Code, with the token in place of <TOKEN>:

```
claude mcp add --transport http sakto https://sakto.ai/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>"
```

A token or a connection can be limited to one mandate, and to reading only. You can revoke it at any time.

## Its tools

The tools the server lists to an assistant:

### Reading

- `check_net_debt_definition` Check an SPA's net debt definition
- `compare_with_earlier_mandates` Compare with the team's other mandates
- `explain_change` Explain a change between two periods
- `explain_figure` Explain a figure
- `get_account` Account detail
- `get_balance_sheet` Balance sheet
- `get_business_plan` Business plan and plan vs actual
- `get_buyer_issues` What a buyer's due diligence will raise
- `get_cash_flow` Cash flow
- `get_completion_accounts` Completion accounts
- `get_customers` Customers
- `get_data_checks` Data checks and export blockers
- `get_data_request` What to ask the client for
- `get_ebitda_bridge` EBITDA bridge
- `get_equity_value_sensitivity` Equity value sensitivity
- `get_financial_analysis` Overview
- `get_forecast` Forecast drivers and snapshots
- `get_leakage` Locked-box leakage
- `get_nwc_net_debt` Net working capital and net debt
- `get_profit_and_loss` Profit and loss
- `get_sector_bands` Sector benchmarks
- `get_security_overview` Security and data protection
- `get_trading_update` Trading update against the plan shown to buyers
- `list_mandates` List mandates and entities
- `list_net_debt_categories` Net debt categories
- `list_proposals` List proposed adjustments
- `list_scenarios` List saved scenarios
- `verify_figures` Check stated figures against the books

### Writing, refused for a token or connection limited to reading

- `create_deal` Create a mandate or entity
- `export_databook` Export the databook
- `mark_data_request` Tick off the data request
- `propose_adjustment` Propose an EBITDA adjustment
- `propose_reclass` Propose a reclass
- `propose_register_item` Propose a register item
- `upload_trial_balance` Upload a file