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Connect Gemini CLI to your bank account.

Gemini CLI becomes genuinely useful with money the moment it can see yours. Candor gives Gemini CLI bank-grade, read-only sight of your real accounts plus the memory and finance skills to act like someone paid to watch them. Setup takes minutes, Gemini CLI does the work, and Candor gives it no way to move a dollar.

Updated August 16, 2026

How it works with your agent

  1. 01Create your Candor workspace at candor.money and connect accounts through the bank-grade, read-only flow. You see the price before anything private.
  2. 02Tell Gemini CLI to set up Candor. It installs the Candor extension, which carries the candor-finance skill and remote MCP configuration and keeps itself updated.
  3. 03Approve Gemini CLI's access in your browser through Candor's OAuth page. Your bank credentials are never part of this step.
  4. 04Ask Gemini CLI for a first review. It opens the workspace, reads your records, and shows you what it caught. Tell it the cadence you want and it keeps watching.

Can Gemini CLI see my bank account?

Yes. Connect Gemini CLI to Candor and it can read your accounts, balances, transactions, debts, and holdings across institutions. The access is read-only by architecture: through Candor, Gemini CLI can see everything and move nothing.

On its own, Gemini CLI can only talk about money in general. Connected to Candor, it works from your actual records: every account in one organized workspace, refreshed and queryable, with the freshness, coverage, and history behind every number. That is the difference between advice from a smart stranger and advice from something that can check.

Candor is the financial workspace built for this. It holds the bank-grade connections, normalizes the records, and hands Gemini CLI deterministic datasets, durable memory for budgets and goals, and finance skills that teach it how disciplined money work is actually done.

How to connect Gemini CLI to your bank account

Three moves: create your Candor workspace on the web, have Gemini CLI install the candor-finance skill and Candor's remote MCP server, and approve its access in your browser. Most people are done inside ten minutes.

Start at candor.money. The web flow owns signup and the secure, read-only account connection, and it shows the price before you connect anything private. When your workspace is ready, it hands you one line to paste to Gemini CLI.

From there, Gemini CLI handles its own setup. It reads Candor's start materials, installs the Candor extension, which carries the candor-finance skill and remote MCP configuration and keeps itself updated, and asks before it changes anything on its own host. The approval only you can give comes last: Gemini CLI's access to your workspace, on Candor's OAuth page in your browser. Bank passwords, codes, and account numbers never pass through the chat.

gemini extensions install https://github.com/candorsystems/candor-finance --auto-update

What can Gemini CLI do once it sees your money?

The work you would pay an advisor for: catch duplicate charges and price jumps, flag avoidable fees and idle cash, keep budgets and goals current, and remember every decision with the records behind it.

Connected, Gemini CLI runs real investigations instead of generic tips: the subscription that quietly went up, the trial about to convert, the refund that never landed, the cash earning almost nothing while debt costs more. Each finding comes with the transactions that prove it, so you check the work instead of trusting it.

And it compounds. Gemini CLI records budgets you approve, goals you set, decisions you make, and the follow-through, in a workspace that outlives any single conversation. Next month it is not starting over; it is picking up where it left off.

Is it safe to connect Gemini CLI to your bank account?

Yes. No Candor tool can move money, pay, trade, or change anything at your bank; the connections are read-only, every read is logged with a reason, and you can revoke Gemini CLI's access at any time.

The safe pattern is sight without hands. Candor connects to your institutions through bank-grade, read-only infrastructure, and the tool surface it hands Gemini CLI contains nothing that transfers, pays, trades, or closes. That boundary is architecture, not policy. Whatever else Gemini CLI can do with its own tools stays under the authority you give it; Candor adds sight, never new powers.

You stay in control of the connection itself: approve it in your browser, watch what it reads in the audit history, and cut it off from your Candor account whenever you want. Every workspace read carries a recorded reason, so there is always an answer to what your agent looked at and why.

Common questions

Does Gemini CLI connect directly to my bank?
No, and that is the point. Candor holds the bank-grade, read-only connection to your institutions. Gemini CLI gets OAuth-scoped access to the organized workspace, so your bank credentials never touch the agent or the chat.
Can Gemini CLI move my money through Candor?
No. Candor has no tool that moves money, makes a payment, trades, or changes anything at your bank or broker. Gemini CLI reads your records, does the math, and shows its work; anything that touches your accounts happens through you.
Which accounts can Gemini CLI see once connected?
Checking, savings, credit cards, loans, and investment accounts across your institutions. You choose what to connect in Candor's secure flow, and you can disconnect an institution at any time without touching the others.
What does this cost?
Candor is a flat subscription, and you see the price in the web flow before anything private is connected. Gemini CLI's own subscription is separate and stays whatever you already pay for it.
How do I disconnect Gemini CLI later?
Revoke Gemini CLI's access from your Candor account controls and it loses the workspace immediately. You can also disconnect a connected institution, export your organized data, or delete your Candor data; some records may remain where security or legal retention requires it.
Does the extension update itself?
Yes. The install command enables automatic extension updates, so the skill and tool contract stay current without you tending them.

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Put Gemini CLI on your money today.

One message to the agent you already use. You see the price before anything private, approve the access and accounts yourself, and your agent is working within minutes.