disclosures

Corporate-disclosure research for AI agents and TypeScript — filings, insiders, owners, financials, and ownership chains from 26 official sources across 21 jurisdiction routes (20 national routes plus the EU aggregate).

disclosures is a free, open-source Model Context Protocol server and a TypeScript library. It answers questions like "who are NVIDIA's directors?", "who owns 5% of Samsung Electronics?", or "show me Vale's last three annual results" — with every answer linked back to the official source document.

• 10 stable tools, 21 jurisdiction routes — six core tools dispatch via jurisdiction; OwnershipChain is global; three specialized tools cover filed documents, secured charges, and person-level lookups. Tool names stay stable as coverage grows.
• Official sources only — SEC EDGAR, GLEIF, Companies House, FCA NSM, filings.xbrl.org, OpenDART, EDINET, cninfo, SZSE, BSE, TWSE, CVM, BaFin, info-financiere, recherche-entreprises, HKEXnews, ACRA, DBD, AFM, IDX, Bursa Malaysia, KAP, DFM, PSE EDGE, ASX, and ASIC.
• Honest by design — real source links only, explicit "unsupported here" answers instead of empty or fabricated results, and clear caveats ("absence of a filing is not proof").
• Zero runtime dependencies — one bundled file, runs anywhere Node 18+ runs.

Quick start

Requires Node 18+. SEC-backed US calls require a descriptive User-Agent under EDGAR's fair-access policy; keyless non-US routes can run without it.

npx -y disclosures

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio disclosures \
  --env DISCLOSURES_USER_AGENT="Your Organization your-email@example.com" \
  -- npx -y disclosures

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "disclosures": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "disclosures"],
      "env": {
        "DISCLOSURES_USER_AGENT": "Your Organization your-email@example.com"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

Add the same mcpServers block as Claude Desktop to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or per-project .cursor/mcp.json).

VS Code (Copilot / MCP)

Add to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "disclosures": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "disclosures"],
      "env": {
        "DISCLOSURES_USER_AGENT": "Your Organization your-email@example.com"
      }
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.disclosures]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "disclosures"]
env = { DISCLOSURES_USER_AGENT = "Your Organization your-email@example.com" }

HTTP mode

The same server also speaks the MCP streamable-HTTP transport, for hosted or networked deployments. Pass --http (stdio remains the default with no flag):

disclosures --http --port 8080          # or: node dist/server.mjs --http

• Binds 127.0.0.1 by default; pass --host 0.0.0.0 to expose it. Port comes from --port, else the PORT env var, else 8080.
• MCP endpoint: POST /mcp (the transport also answers the streamable-HTTP GET/DELETE handshake). Runs stateless — no session id, a fresh server instance per request.
• Health check: GET /healthz → 200 {"name","version","tools"}.
• Diagnostics go to stderr only, as in stdio mode.

Connect any streamable-HTTP MCP client at http://127.0.0.1:8080/mcp.

Restart the client after changing its configuration, then try:

"Use disclosures to list Apple's board of directors and their latest Form 4 activity." "Who holds 5% or more of NVIDIA? Link the filings." "Resolve Samsung Electronics in Korea and show its latest annual financials." "What's the GLEIF ownership chain above Apple Operations India?"

The ten tools

Six core tools dispatch across all jurisdiction routes via jurisdiction; OwnershipChain is global and jurisdiction-independent. CompanyDocument accepts US, GB (default), JP, KR, FR, HK, CN, TR, AE, PH, and AU; PersonAppointments accepts US, GB (default), DE, FR, and AU; CompanyCharges is Companies House-specific and takes no jurisdiction.

Every company input accepts a name or a local identifier — ticker, CIK, LEI, or ISIN (US/global), Companies House number (GB — incl. SC/NI prefixes for Scotland and Northern Ireland), OpenDART corp/stock code (KR), EDINET/securities/corporate code (JP), A-share or HK code (CN), BSE scrip (IN), TWSE listing code (TW), CVM registration code (BR), BaFin-Id or ISIN (DE), SIREN/ISIN/LEI (FR), 4/5-digit HKEX stock code (HK), Singapore UEN (SG), 13-digit juristic-person registration number (TH), AFM-register issuer name or LEI (NL), 4-letter IDX ticker / kode emiten (ID), 4-digit Bursa stock code or issuer name (MY), BIST stock code (TR), DFM issuer symbol (AE), PSE ticker symbol or numeric PSE company id (PH). Pass jurisdiction: "US" | "GB" | "EU" | "KR" | "JP" | "CN" | "IN" | "TW" | "BR" | "DE" | "FR" | "HK" | "SG" | "TH" | "NL" | "ID" | "MY" | "TR" | "AE" | "PH" | "AU" (default US).

Coverage matrix

✅ supported · ⚠️ partial (FR CompanyOwners: threshold-crossing notifications with a best-effort structured extraction — holder, direction, threshold(s) and resulting % parsed from the notification PDF's text layer for the newest few; scanned/non-standard PDFs and older notifications stay a link-only list · HK CompanyOwners: the keyless CCASS shareholding search returns participant/custodian-level holdings (custodian banks, brokers, HKSCC Nominees, CSDC) — not beneficial owners; the SFO Part XV Disclosure of Interests register is captcha-walled and linked for manual lookup · HK CompanyFinancials: headline figures extracted from the issuer's latest results-announcement PDF, latest announcement only — standard issuers extract cleanly, complex segment-split/multi-column statements parse partially, and a page shortfall or missing statement degrades to the PDF link · CN CompanyFinancials: headline figures extracted from the 主要会计数据 key-data table of the issuer's latest periodic-report PDF, normalized to whole RMB from the report's stated unit (元/千元/万元/百万元), latest report only — a mojibake (object-stream) report, an over-cap PDF, or a missing key-data table degrades to the PDF link · CN CompanyOwners: the 前十名股东 top-10 shareholders table parsed from the issuer's freshest periodic report — real major-shareholder data, but ragged and issuer-variable in column order, so a value-heuristic parser emits only confidently-matched rows; an as-published point-in-time snapshot, not a live register and not UBO tracing · CN CompanyInsiders: asymmetric by exchange — SZSE codes (0/3xxxxx) use SZSE's keyless structured 董监高 share-change feed, while SSE codes (6xxxxx) fall back to the as-published 董监高 board roster in the latest annual report, names and positions only) · ID is served over an anti-bot-protected host (www.idx.co.id): the adapter sends browser-class headers and works wherever those pass, and where the edge refuses it returns an explicit "the host blocked this request — inject a browser-backed fetchFn" note stating it is not an empty result for the issuer, never a silent miss · TR CompanyFilings is a deliberate dash: KAP serves the BIST directory and every disclosure page/PDF keylessly, but its Next.js rebuild moved the data layer to kapsitebackend.mkk.com.tr, which does not resolve publicly — anything addressable by disclosure id works, while enumeration does not (the per-company notifications page returns 200 but server-renders an empty shell and fetches its rows from that unreachable host), so the tool explains why and points at the issuer's KAP page rather than faking a list · PH CompanyFinancials is partial: PSE EDGE serves the headline statement its own 17-A form carries (balance sheet + income statement, in PHP), not the full audited statements, which stay in the report's PDF attachments · — returns an honest unsupported-jurisdiction explanation, never an empty or fabricated result

NL CompanyOwners/CompanyInsiders are fully supported but read whole-file AFM register exports (no server-side filtering exists; the substantial-holdings export is ~108 MB): the first call in a session takes ~20–30 s, after which a cached 24 h per-issuer digest serves the rest in milliseconds. Supply an AdapterOptions.cache (e.g. FileCache) in per-request deployments.

⚠️ ASX and PSE EDGE are restricted sources and are disabled before network access by default. Their terms limit use and redistribution in ways that may conflict with an automated disclosure service. Review AU.md and PH.md, then set DISCLOSURES_ACKNOWLEDGE_ASX_TERMS=1 and/or DISCLOSURES_ACKNOWLEDGE_PSE_TERMS=1 only if you have the rights to use that source in your context. ASIC's CC-BY Australian company and disqualification registers remain available without ASX acknowledgement. Enabled responses retain the source-specific terms notice. Not legal advice.

Each jurisdiction has a full reference page — data source, credentials, accepted identifiers, per-intent behavior, and caveats — under docs/jurisdictions/.

Data sources and credentials

US and global lookups work with just the User-Agent. Non-US sources are keyless where the upstream allows it; the few that need keys are free. Provide only the keys for jurisdictions you query — everything else keeps working without them, and a missing credential produces a readable error naming the exact variable to set.

# Required (SEC fair-access policy — your name/org and contact email)
export DISCLOSURES_USER_AGENT="Your Organization your-email@example.com"

# Optional, per jurisdiction
export COMPANIES_HOUSE_API_KEY="..."   # GB
export OPENDART_API_KEY="..."          # KR
export EDINET_API_KEY="..."            # JP document search
export DBD_API_KEY="..."               # TH company-name search (by-number is keyless)

# Restricted sources: set only after reviewing the source terms.
export DISCLOSURES_ACKNOWLEDGE_ASX_TERMS=1
export DISCLOSURES_ACKNOWLEDGE_PSE_TERMS=1

SEC_EDGAR_USER_AGENT is accepted as a fallback for compatibility; DISCLOSURES_USER_AGENT wins.

Use as a TypeScript library

The same package imports cleanly without starting stdio — every adapter takes injectable { fetchFn?, env?, cache? }, so it embeds and tests deterministically.

import { createTools } from "disclosures";

const tools = createTools({
  env: { DISCLOSURES_USER_AGENT: "Your Organization your-email@example.com" },
});

const resolve = tools.find((tool) => tool.name === "CompanyResolve")!;
const result = await resolve.handler({ company: "NVDA" });

Handlers never throw — every failure comes back as a readable MCP-shaped result. Individual adapters are also exported as namespaces (secEdgar, gleif, companiesHouse, openDart, edinet, cninfo, szse, bseIndia, fcaNsm, xbrlFilings, twseOpenApi, cvmOpenData) if you want the raw normalized records instead of Markdown.

import { FileCache, createTools } from "disclosures";

const tools = createTools({
  env: { OPENDART_API_KEY: process.env.OPENDART_API_KEY },
  cache: new FileCache("/var/cache/disclosures"), // TTL-aware, survives restarts
});

import { gleif } from "disclosures";

gleif.isIsin("US0378331005");                               // true — validates the check digit
const issuer = await gleif.resolveLeiByIsin("US0378331005"); // → issuer's GLEIF Entity (with .lei)
const isins = await gleif.getIsinsForLei("HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394"); // → every ISIN for that LEI

import { createDisclosuresServer } from "disclosures";

const server = createDisclosuresServer(); // McpServer with all ten tools registered

Built for AI clients

Responses are designed for the way an MCP client actually consumes them:

• Markdown-first rendering. Every result is one GitHub-flavored Markdown text block — headings, compact pipe tables (headers stated once, not repeated per row like JSON), real source links, and inline caveats. This is the token-efficient path for an LLM reader.
• Structured output for chaining. Data-bearing tools additionally return MCP structuredContent mirroring the Markdown facts, so a client chains calls without parsing prose: CompanyResolve ranked candidates with full identifier sets, CompanyFilings and register records with a ready-to-use transactionId, PersonAppointments people with their officerId, plus CompanyInsiders, CompanyOwners, CompanyFinancials (per-concept facts labelled by fiscal period end), OwnershipChain, PrivateRaises, and CompanyCharges — each tagged with its sourceJurisdiction. OwnershipChain also declares an MCP outputSchema; the multi-jurisdiction tools keep their honest-miss text-only paths and so emit structure additively without a declared schema.
• Next-step trailers. Chainable outputs end with a one-line _Next: …_ hint naming the tool and parameter to call next.
• Tool annotations. All tools declare openWorldHint and idempotentHint; all but CompanyDocument (whose pdf mode writes a local file) declare readOnlyHint, so clients can parallelize and skip confirmation prompts.
• Paged document text. CompanyDocument mode xhtml reads in 50,000-character windows via text_offset — long filings are fully readable, not head-truncated.
• Fenced untrusted content. Extracted filer-authored text is wrapped between fixed <<<BEGIN/END UNTRUSTED DOCUMENT TEXT>>> sentinels (with lookalikes inside the document defanged), so clients can quarantine it programmatically.
• Jurisdiction resources. The server exposes disclosures://jurisdictions and disclosures://jurisdictions/{code} MCP resources describing each jurisdiction's source, credential, accepted identifiers, and caveats — check requirements without a failed tool call.

Honesty and scope

These tools report public disclosures, faithfully — they are not KYC, UBO, or cap-table products:

• Absence is not proof. No Form D doesn't mean a company never raised privately; a missing PSC doesn't prove no controller exists; a blank ECCTA identity field doesn't prove an officer is unverified.
• GLEIF parents are accounting-consolidation relationships — not voting control, market-disclosure ownership, or ultimate beneficial ownership.
• Schedule 13D/13G identifies filers at the 5% threshold; it is not a complete or continuously current capitalization table.
• Section 16 insiders reflect recent Forms 3/4/5 and may not be a complete current roster.
• Filings can be amended, restated, late, or tagged under alternate XBRL concepts — verify against the linked source documents.
• Nothing here is legal, investment, accounting, or financial advice.

Resolution misses come back as plain "Could not find…" text; configuration, upstream, and rate-limit failures come back as flagged errors naming the fix. Every link is a real, resolvable source URL.

Documentation

Development

Requires Bun for development; the published artifact runs on Node 18+.

bun install
bunx tsc --noEmit     # strict typecheck
bun test              # full offline suite — no live HTTP
bun run build         # bundles dist/server.mjs (zero runtime deps)
bun run test:stdio    # stdio integration against the built artifact

The default suite never touches the network: routed fetch stubs throw on any unmatched request. A separate live end-to-end suite builds the real Node artifact, drives it over MCP stdio, and uses whichever credentials are present in .env.local:

bun run test:live       # missing jurisdiction keys are reported as skips
bun run test:live:all   # strict: require User-Agent + GB/KR/JP keys

Live assertions are drift-tolerant (identity, identifier shape, source host, and response structure rather than volatile counts or dates), transient failures retry once, calls are time-bounded, and diagnostics redact configured keys. The live files use a .live.ts suffix so bare bun test cannot discover them. See the full testing discipline. The smaller bun run smoke:live SEC/GLEIF diagnostic remains available for quick checks.

stdio rule: the server reserves stdout for JSON-RPC — contributor diagnostics must go to stderr, since console.log corrupts the MCP transport.

Current gaps

Coverage grows additively behind the existing tool set. The clearest next deepening target is India: BSE filings already expose report PDFs, but CompanyDocument and confidently parsed ownership remain pending. Other intentional gaps are documented per jurisdiction rather than represented as empty data. Suggestions and issues are welcome on GitHub.

License

Apache-2.0. Copyright Carrotly AI.