SEC EDGAR — Public Company Filings

The Securities and Exchange Commission's filings database. Every public company in the US files here, every filing is timestamped and immutable, and every disclosure (revenue, debt, risk factors, executive compensation, M&A activity, insider trading) is structured for machine retrieval. Free and authoritative.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1476+ live data sources.

Why this matters for AI agents

If your agent is answering anything about a US public company — financials, legal exposure, IP, executive turnover, recent material events — the answer is in EDGAR. The data is structured (XBRL), so you don't have to parse PDFs.

The two key flows:

1. Filings flow. "Show me Apple's recent 10-Q." → edgar_ticker_to_cik("AAPL") → edgar_company_filings(cik) → list of filings with accession numbers, form types, filing dates.

2. Concepts flow. "What was Apple's revenue trend the last 4 quarters?" → edgar_company_concept(cik, "Revenues") → time series of XBRL-tagged values across periods.

Both are usually preceded by edgar_ticker_to_cik or resolve_entity({type: "company", value: "AAPL"}) to get the canonical 10-digit CIK.

Auth

None. SEC EDGAR is a free, public, no-auth service. Pipeworx forwards a polite User-Agent header to comply with SEC's API guidelines.

Citable URIs

Code

pipeworx://edgar/company/{cik}/filings
pipeworx://edgar/company/{cik}/facts

Embed in your output. Stable across reorganizations — companies rebrand, but their CIK doesn't change.

Form types worth knowing

Form	What it is	When
10-K	Annual report	~60 days after fiscal year-end
10-Q	Quarterly report	~45 days after quarter-end
8-K	Material event (M&A, exec changes, earnings, etc.)	Within 4 business days
DEF 14A	Proxy statement (executive comp, governance)	~6 weeks before annual meeting
Form 4	Insider trading disclosure	Within 2 business days of trade
13F	Institutional holdings (>$100M AUM funds)	45 days after quarter-end
S-1	IPO registration	When going public
13D / 13G	>5% beneficial ownership disclosure	Within 10 days of crossing threshold

For insider trades specifically, see the dedicated insider-trading pack — it surfaces Form 4 / 13D / 13G changes with cleaner schemas.

Common pitfalls

Concept name drift. SEC filers occasionally change the XBRL concept they tag for revenue. The default Revenues concept may be stale for newer fiscal years; try RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax as a fallback.
Period mismatches. Fiscal years end at different times across companies (Apple = Sept, Microsoft = June, Google = Dec). When comparing, always disclose the period.
CIK formatting. Some endpoints want zero-padded 10-digit (0000320193), some want unpadded (320193). Pipeworx accepts either; the cik_padded field in edgar_ticker_to_cik is the canonical form for resource URIs.
Real-time-ish, not real-time. Filings appear on EDGAR within minutes of submission, but Pipeworx caches results. For breaking-news-grade timeliness, set Cache-Control: no-cache (anonymous limit applies) or check the _meta.cache.fresh_until field.
Concept availability differs. Smaller filers tag fewer XBRL concepts than large ones. edgar_company_concept may return empty arrays for valid concepts that the company simply doesn't report. Use edgar_company_facts to see which concepts a company DOES report.

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "edgar": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/edgar/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/edgar/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1476+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway: