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Qanat

Qanat is an MCP server that adds finance tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. An MCP server for quant factor processing and backtesting. It has 294 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx qanat-fdtl.

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Install Qanat

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "qanat": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "qanat-fdtl"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio qanat -- uvx qanat-fdtl

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "qanat": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "qanat-fdtl"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "qanat": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "qanat-fdtl"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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).

About Qanat

An MCP server for quant factor processing and backtesting. Qanat is a data platform for quant factors. Give it any source that has a timestamp. It processes the data, stores it, and serves it to your agent over MCP.

  • alpha-research
  • backtesting
  • duckdb
  • mcp
  • quantitative-finance
  • trading-toolkit
  • mcp-server
  • model-context-protocol
  • quant

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What is Qanat?

Qanat is an MCP server that adds finance tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. An MCP server for quant factor processing and backtesting. It has 294 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx qanat-fdtl. The source code is at github.com/fidetolabs/qanat.

How do I install the Qanat MCP server?

Add the command uvx qanat-fdtl 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 Qanat free?

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

Is Qanat actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Sep 30, 2026. The latest release is v0.3.0, published Sep 30, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.