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EdgarTools

EdgarTools is an MCP server that adds finance tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Open-source SEC EDGAR toolkit — 13 tools, 7 prompts, every filing type. It has 2,776 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx edgartools.

github.com/dgunning/edgartools (opens in a new tab)

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Install EdgarTools

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "edgartools": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "edgartools"
      ],
      "env": {
        "EDGAR_IDENTITY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env EDGAR_IDENTITY=your-value --transport stdio edgartools -- uvx edgartools

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "edgartools": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "edgartools"
      ],
      "env": {
        "EDGAR_IDENTITY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "edgartools": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "edgartools"
      ],
      "env": {
        "EDGAR_IDENTITY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
EDGAR_IDENTITYYesYour name and email for SEC EDGAR API identification (e.g. 'Your Name your.email@example.com')

About EdgarTools

EdgarTools is a Python library for accessing SEC EDGAR filings as structured data. Parse financial statements, insider trades, fund holdings, proxy statements, and 20+ other filing types with a consistent Python API — in a few lines of code. Free and open source.

  • 10-k
  • 10-q
  • balance-sheet
  • edgar
  • filings
  • financials
  • insider-trading
  • sec
  • xbrl
  • 13-f

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What is EdgarTools?

EdgarTools is an MCP server that adds finance tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Open-source SEC EDGAR toolkit — 13 tools, 7 prompts, every filing type. It has 2,776 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx edgartools. The source code is at github.com/dgunning/edgartools.

How do I install the EdgarTools MCP server?

Add the command uvx edgartools to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is EdgarTools free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is EdgarTools actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 6, 2026. The latest release is v5.61.1, published Oct 6, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.