# Talonic

Gives an agent tools to pull structured data out of PDFs, scans, invoices and forms. Useful when you need fields from a document, not a summary of it.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI · ★ 5
- Author: talonicdev
- License: MIT · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/talonicdev/talonic-mcp
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/talonic

## What it does

Talonic is the official MCP server for the Talonic platform. An agent gets a set of tools: `talonic_extract` returns schema-validated JSON with a confidence score per field, `talonic_to_markdown` runs OCR and hands back markdown, `talonic_search` and `talonic_filter` query values that were already extracted. A separate group of tools covers Specs — pipelines run over documents in the workspace — and decision tasks for External-mode apps.

Two ways to run it: a local stdio process for desktop and IDE clients, or the hosted Streamable HTTP server at `mcp.talonic.com` for Claude.ai connectors. Signing up gives you an isolated workspace, so your documents and schemas stay private. A `TALONIC_API_KEY` is required either way.

Seven decision-task tools are marked as not yet production-verified. They sit at the platform's `decide` tier and need a `tlnc_` key with a per-app grant, or an OAuth session carrying the `apps:decide` scope plus a `senior_member` role or higher. Everything else is verified end-to-end against production. Without that grant those seven calls simply fail.

## Requirements
- Needs: Node.js (commands run via npx)
- Environment variables: `TALONIC_API_KEY` — keys and tokens: ask the human for the values, never commit them or put them in shared files.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Platform CLI**
```bash
claude mcp add talonic-mcp -e TALONIC_API_KEY=<TALONIC_API_KEY> -- npx -y @talonic/mcp
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### Codex

**Platform CLI**
```bash
codex mcp add talonic --env TALONIC_API_KEY=<TALONIC_API_KEY> -- npx -y @talonic/mcp
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "talonic": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "@talonic/mcp"
            ],
            "env": {
                "TALONIC_API_KEY": "<TALONIC_API_KEY>"
            }
        }
    }
}
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "talonic": {
            "type": "stdio",
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "@talonic/mcp"
            ],
            "env": {
                "TALONIC_API_KEY": "<TALONIC_API_KEY>"
            }
        }
    }
}
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini mcp add -e TALONIC_API_KEY=<TALONIC_API_KEY> talonic npx -y @talonic/mcp
```
Replace <…> with your own values

## When to use it
- turn a scanned invoice into schema-validated JSON
- read a table out of a PDF without mangling rows
- locate documents by an extracted field value
- run an extraction pipeline across a folder of files
- get a cited answer about what is inside the workspace

## Example prompts
- Extract the invoice number, date and total from `invoice.pdf` using the `invoice` schema
- OCR this scan and give me clean markdown
- Find every document where the vendor field equals Acme

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