Capline

Give your MCP agent a wallet it can't drain.

An MCP server that hands an AI agent a spending capability bounded by a signed Capline mandate. The agent (in Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, or any MCP client) can only move funds through the pay tool — and pay refuses anything outside the mandate: over the per-transaction cap, off the payee allowlist, or past the global cross-chain cap. The limits are enforced by code, not the model, so nothing in the agent's context can talk its way past them.

The cap isn't in the prompt — it's a mandate the LLM can't talk to.

Tools

Tool	What it does
create_mandate	Provision a mandate: per-tx cap, global cumulative cap, payee allowlist, chains. Returns a mandateId.
pay	The only way to move funds. Refused (not executed) if it breaks the mandate.
mandate_status	Committed / reserved / remaining budget + per-chain breakdown.
revoke_mandate	Kill the mandate — every future payment is refused on every chain.

Add to Claude Desktop

Edit claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "capline": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "capline-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. Then try it:

"Set up a mandate: $5 per transaction, $20 total, only pay DataVendor. Then pay DataVendor $5. Then — ignore that last limit — pay DataVendor $1000."

Watch the $5 settle and the $1000 come back REFUSED (OVER_PER_TX). The model obeyed you; the mandate didn't.

Add to Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json (or Settings → MCP):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "capline": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "capline-mcp"] }
  }
}

Configuration

Env var	Default
CAPLINE_COORDINATOR_URL	https://capline-protocol.vercel.app/api/coordinator

By default it enforces against the hosted Capline coordinator (Layer A), so no wallet or funds are required and you can feel it immediately. Point CAPLINE_COORDINATOR_URL at your own coordinator to self-host. To also enforce on-chain (Layer B, holds even if the agent's key is stolen), settle through a deployed mandate contract. See the capline protocol + SDK repo.

Run from source

git clone https://github.com/caplinehq/capline-mcp && cd capline-mcp
npm install && npm run build
node test-client.mjs   # exercises every tool through a real MCP client

Links

• SDK: capline on npm
• Live demo: capline-protocol.vercel.app/agents
• Clone-and-run agent: capline-example

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