# viewdaily

viewdaily is a small local bridge to FinChiefs' hosted
MCP server, which collects daily research from more than
200 providers - banks, asset managers, central banks,
multilaterals and independent researchers - and distils
it into directional views on assets, macro themes,
written daily digests and structured central-bank
policy signals, each with a link back to the source
publication.

The bridge keeps no research data of its own. It serves
the upstream server's tool list locally, exactly as
captured from the live endpoint, and forwards each tool
call upstream, returning the result untouched. The whole
captured surface is read-only: nothing here places
orders, moves money or sends anything anywhere.

## Tools

- `list_providers` - the providers the service follows.
  Optional: `query` (part of a provider name) and
  `limit` (1-300, default 100). A provider `id` from
  here limits the other tools to one source.
- `list_categories` - asset digest categories (such as
  gold, oil, us_bonds, eurusd) and macro categories
  (such as monetary_policy, geopolitics). Keys flagged
  with a daily digest work with `get_daily_digests`;
  macro keys also filter `search_macro_views` and
  `summarize_views`. No arguments.
- `summarize_views` - the overall picture from every
  matching view in one small response: totals, up/down
  counts, provider leanings, busiest providers, a
  week-by-week trend and the most-discussed subjects.
  Required: `kind` (`asset` or `macro`). Optional:
  `terms`, `asset_class`, `category`, `provider_id`,
  `since`, `until`.
- `search_asset_views` - individual directional (up/down)
  views on assets, with provider, date, horizon,
  rationale and source link, paged via `offset` /
  `next_offset` and spread across providers by default.
- `search_macro_views` - individual macro themes and
  drivers from provider research, each with a description
  and source link, paged the same way.
- `search_research` - research publications (articles,
  reports, podcasts) with title, provider, date, a short
  description and the link to the original, ranked by
  term match then newest.
- `get_daily_digests` - daily summaries written from all
  providers' views for a category, with the day's
  up/down tallies. Required: `categories` (1-10 category
  keys, e.g. `["gold"]`, or `["__overall__"]` for the
  cross-asset summary).
- `get_policy_signals` - structured reads of central-bank
  and multilateral publications: decisions, stance
  (-2 dovish to +2 hawkish), guidance, conditions,
  speaker and forecasts, newest first.

## Configuration

- `FINCHIEFS_MCP_URL` (optional) - override the upstream
  endpoint. Defaults to `https://finchiefs.com/api/mcp`.
  (The override hook is this rebuild's own labelled
  reconstruction.)
- `FINCHIEFS_API_KEY` (optional) - when set, every
  upstream request carries an
  `Authorization: Bearer <key>` header. When it is not
  set, no auth header is sent. (This forwarding is also
  a labelled reconstruction; the original surface was
  captured keyless.)

### Forwarding mechanics

On the first tool call the client opens a streamable
HTTP session with the upstream: a JSON-RPC `initialize`
request (protocolVersion `2025-03-26`, clientInfo name
`viewdaily`), then a `notifications/initialized`
notification, then the `tools/call` request carrying
the caller's arguments unchanged. When the upstream
answers `initialize` with an `Mcp-Session-Id` header,
that value rides on every later request of the session,
which is reused for the life of the process. Replies
may arrive as plain JSON or as server-sent events;
both are read.

Successful upstream results pass through verbatim,
including any `isError` flag the upstream sets.
Failures - a JSON-RPC error, a non-2xx status, an
unreadable response, or a request that cannot be
completed - come back as an `isError` result whose
text starts with `viewdaily error:` (this rendering
is this rebuild's own labelled reconstruction).

## CLI

Each tool is also a subcommand taking one JSON argument
string (omit it for tools that take none):

```bash
npx @reneturcios/viewdaily list_providers '{"query":"ECB"}'
npx @reneturcios/viewdaily summarize_views '{"kind":"asset","terms":["gold"]}'
npx @reneturcios/viewdaily get_daily_digests '{"categories":["gold"]}'
npx @reneturcios/viewdaily list_categories
npx @reneturcios/viewdaily --version
```

Exit codes: `0` on success, `1` on an `isError`
result, `2` on a usage error.

## MCP server

```bash
npx -y @reneturcios/viewdaily mcp
```

MCP client config:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "viewdaily": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/viewdaily", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

## Docker

```bash
docker run -i ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/viewdaily
docker run --rm ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/viewdaily --version
```

The container's default command is `mcp`, so the first
form is a stdio MCP server; any other arguments reach
the CLI normally.

## Development

```bash
npm install
npm run build
npm test
npm run dev
```

The test suite runs entirely against a stubbed
JSON-RPC upstream - no live network calls.

## License

MIT - see `LICENSE`.