EDGAR Events MCP server

Give an AI agent live SEC filing events: resolved SC 13D activist stakes (holder, target, percent of class, shares) and typed 8-K, S-1 and merger filings. It wraps the EDGAR Events API.

One tool works with no API key, so you can wire it up and test it in under a minute:

• get_recent_activist_stakes returns the latest resolved 13D / 13D-A filings, parsed from each filing's cover-page XML into holder, target ticker, percent of class and share count. No key, no signup.

The filtered feeds need a key (a free tool is the preview; the key is the upgrade):

• get_activist_stakes — the full 13D feed with date-range, ticker and minimum-percent filters.

• get_filings — typed filing events across the tickers you name, filterable by form type, 8-K item code, materiality and lookback window.

• get_ticker_filings — the same, scoped to one ticker.

Without a key, the filtered tools reply with a short note on how to get one instead of erroring, so an agent degrades gracefully to the free preview.

Why activist 13D data

Most SEC APIs hand back a filing's metadata and a link, leaving you to fetch and parse the document. EDGAR Events reads the SC 13D cover page and returns the numbers an agent actually needs: who filed, against which ticker, the percent of class, and the share count. get_recent_activist_stakes shows real resolved rows, not pointers.

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Install

The server runs over stdio. Until the PyPI release lands, install it from the source repo. With uv there is nothing to install ahead of time:

uvx --from git+https://github.com/fortifiedai/edgar-events-mcp edgar-events-mcp

Or with pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/fortifiedai/edgar-events-mcp
edgar-events-mcp

Once it is on PyPI this shortens to uvx edgar-events-mcp (or pip install edgar-events-mcp).

Claude Desktop

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "edgar-events": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/fortifiedai/edgar-events-mcp", "edgar-events-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "EDGAR_EVENTS_API_KEY": "your-key-or-omit-for-the-free-tool"
      }
    }
  }
}

Drop the env block to run with only the free get_recent_activist_stakes tool. Restart Claude Desktop after editing. The same command/args/env shape works in any MCP client (Cursor, Cline, Continue, and others).

Configuration

The key is read from the environment and sent as the X-API-Key header. It is never logged.

Example prompts

Once connected, ask:

• "Who just took an activist stake in a public company?" → get_recent_activist_stakes

• "Show me 13D filings above 10% of class since June 1." → get_activist_stakes

• "Did AAPL or MSFT file any material 8-Ks in the last day?" → get_filings

• "List NVDA's recent 8-K item 2.02 filings." → get_ticker_filings

Tools

Development

pip install -e .
EDGAR_EVENTS_LIVE=1 pytest        # the live test hits the public API

The HTTP client (client.py) uses only the standard library; the server adds the MCP SDK. Data comes from SEC EDGAR via the EDGAR Events API.

License

MIT