Since launch, the Francis Agent and Francis MCP have been read-only. They could tell you what was going on in your model, but making the change was still up to you.

Now both can write to your workspace. Ask for a change in the Francis Agent, or in an MCP client like Claude or ChatGPT, and it’s made in your model.

For example:

• Restructure your three-statement model from the ground up

• Map the chart of accounts for a new entity

• Find the difference when the balance sheet doesn’t balance

• Build next year’s budget from this year’s actuals

Changes follow your permissions

The Francis Agent and MCP clients act as the signed-in user, so they can only change what that person could change themselves.

The Francis Agent applies changes directly to your model. In an MCP client, the client’s own settings decide whether you approve each change first.

Read and write tools for Francis MCP

Owners can now choose which tools Francis MCP makes available. Read tools and write tools are separate settings under Settings → Connected apps, so you can keep connected clients read-only. Both are on by default.

Write access is available in beta in every workspace with the Francis Agent or Francis MCP enabled. The Francis Agent has write access whenever it’s turned on.