The full upstream README, mirrored here for reference. Install config, tool schemas, adoption signals, and an original overview live on the EdgarParser MCP listing page.
SEC EDGAR financial data for AI agents, exposed as an MCP stdio server.
| Variable | Required | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
EDGAR_API_KEY | hosted tools | API key for the hosted EDGAR API; not used by get_issuer_submissions_meta. |
EDGAR_API_URL | no | Override the API base URL. Defaults to https://www.edgarparser.com. |
EDGAR_MCP_OUTPUT_DIR | no | Directory for output="file" tool responses. |
Claude Desktop / Claude Code config:
This package exposes 32 public MCP tools. The inventory below is generated from the same manifest that drives the hosted API documentation.
| Tool | Summary | Tier | Cache Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
get_filings | Return filing metadata and SEC accession details for one ticker period. | public | cache_only |
get_event_filings | Discover event filings by ticker, CIK, date range, form type, or query. | public | cold_allowed |
describe_filing | Show cached availability for financials, sections, tables, markdown, and extractions for one filing. | public | cache_only |
get_filing_document | Return a readable markdown filing document with section filtering and pagination. | registered | cold_allowed |
get_filing_sections | Extract selected qualitative filing sections and optional embedded tables. | public | cold_allowed |
get_filing_cover_facts | Return exact DEI cover-page facts such as shares outstanding with citations. | registered | cold_allowed |
get_filing_evidence | Plan and retrieve citation-ready filing evidence for qualitative SEC questions. | paid | llm_call |
get_issuer_submissions_meta | Return an issuer's SEC submissions header metadata directly from the public SEC JSON endpoint. | public | cold_allowed |
get_operational_kpi_drivers | Research filing narrative and markdown tables for operational KPI values and driver context. | paid | llm_call |
get_operational_kpi_driver_rows | Return the strict producer-owned operational KPI driver row DTO without transport reinterpretation. | paid | cold_allowed |
get_filing_extractions | Return cached langextract spans for one filing or run paid extraction on cache miss. | paid | llm_call |
search_extractions | Search cached langextract spans across filings with structured filters. | paid | cache_only |
get_extraction_series | Return periodized counts and optional hits for cached langextract spans. | paid | cache_only |
extract_filing_file | Run a selected extraction schema against a short-lived filing artifact issued by get_filing_sections. | internal | llm_call |
list_extraction_schemas | List document extraction schemas available to the internal document API. | internal | cache_only |
get_filing_tables | Return filing table metadata or one hydrated structured table. | public | cold_allowed |
search_filing_tables | Search cached filing table metadata across a ticker and period range. | public | cache_only |
compare_filing_tables | Compare matching filing tables across multiple tickers. | public | cache_only |
search_filing_text | Search cached markdown within one filing and return matching spans. | registered | cache_only |
get_financials | Return matcher-produced numeric financial rows for one fiscal filing period. | public | cache_only |
get_filing_facts | Retrieve known exact-QName XBRL facts from one exact SEC filing accession via cache-only lookup or allowed fetch; use metric tools for discovery. | registered | cold_allowed |
get_metric | Return one discovered metric or XBRL tag with current, prior, and YoY values. | public | cache_only |
get_metric_series | Return one metric across multiple periods with per-period cache and coverage status. | public | cache_only |
list_metrics | List exact metric candidates available in one filing period. | public | cache_only |
search_metrics | Search filing metrics by natural-language query and return ranked exact candidates. | public | cold_allowed |
get_statement | Return a template-backed income statement, balance sheet, or cash flow statement from cached concepts. | public | cache_only |
get_concept | Resolve one registry-backed financial concept from cached filing facts. | public | cache_only |
compare_concept | Compare one registry-backed concept across a caller-provided ticker set. | public | cache_only |
concept_trend | Return a cache-only concept time series across a requested period range. | public | cache_only |
cite_concept | Join a registry-backed concept value to filing prose and optional extraction evidence. | paid | cache_only |
warm_metric_cache | Queue paid-tier background warming for metric periods before follow-up reads. | paid | cold_allowed |
warm_metric_cache_status | Poll a background cache-warming job returned by warm_metric_cache. | paid | cache_only |
get_filings, get_event_filings, describe_filing, get_filing_document, get_filing_sections, get_filing_cover_facts, get_filing_evidence, get_issuer_submissions_meta
get_operational_kpi_drivers, get_operational_kpi_driver_rows
get_filing_extractions, search_extractions, get_extraction_series, extract_filing_file, list_extraction_schemas
get_filing_tables, search_filing_tables, compare_filing_tables
search_filing_text
get_financials, get_filing_facts, get_metric, get_metric_series, list_metrics, search_metrics, get_statement, get_concept, compare_concept, concept_trend, cite_concept, warm_metric_cache, warm_metric_cache_status
EDGAR_API_KEY lets the server start, but hosted API tool calls return authentication errors; get_issuer_submissions_meta does not require the key.output="file" and write to EDGAR_MCP_OUTPUT_DIR or a local fallback directory.