@pipeworx/sec-contracts

Material-contract exhibits from SEC filings — credit agreements, indentures, merger agreements, employment and severance agreements — found by the clause language inside them, over SEC EDGAR full-text search. The inverted question edgar cannot answer: not "what did Adobe file" but "which credit agreements filed since 2025 contain a change-of-control clause".

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1576+ live data sources.

Tools

• sec_contracts_search(query, match?, exhibit_type?, form?, since?, until?, company?, sic?, limit?, include_snippets?) — exhibits (EX-10 / EX-4 / EX-2, or any) whose text contains a phrase. One row per exhibit document: company, CIK, ticker, root form, filing date, exhibit type and the filer's exhibit description, a snippet around the match, the document URL and accession; plus the same rows grouped by filing.

• sec_contract_text(url | adsh + filename + cik, max_chars?, offset?, find?) — the exhibit as paged plaintext. find jumps to the first occurrence of a phrase ("Change of Control" definition, "Termination Fee").

• sec_contracts_by_company(company, exhibit_type?, form?, since?, until?, limit?) — one filer's material contracts newest first, by ticker, name or CIK.

Related MCP server: Contract Information Extractor

Auth

Keyless. SEC asks for a descriptive User-Agent on every request; the pack sends one.

Data sources

• https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index — EDGAR full-text search. Indexes every document in a filing from 2001 onward; each hit carries file_type (EX-10.1, EX-4.2, 10-K…), file_description, adsh, ciks, sics, display_names.

• https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/{cik}/{accession}/{file} — the exhibit documents themselves.

Things the next person would otherwise rediscover (all measured 2026-08-28):

• efts has no exhibit-type parameter. forms=EX-10 returns zero — forms filters the root form. Exhibit filtering is client-side on file_type, over-fetching 100 documents a page (up to 500 per call). EX-10(?!\d) is the prefix test, because EX-103 exists as a filer typo.

• No highlights. The search response carries no snippet. Snippets are produced by reading the first 1.5 MB of each matched exhibit and windowing the first occurrence of the phrase, five documents at a time.

• A one-sided dateRange=custom is ignored. startdt without enddt yields an empty filter and 2008 hits. Both ends are always sent.

• Unquoted words are ANDed (one match_phrase clause each); OR between terms works; a double-quoted phrase is exact; q=* matches nothing. The by-company tool therefore queries a broad OR of contract words (agreement OR indenture OR amendment …) with a ciks filter.

• Archive URLs need the registrant's CIK, not the accession prefix. Filing-agent accessions (0001193125-… = Donnelley) return 503 on the agent-CIK path. Search rows carry the resolved cik and document_url for this reason.

• efts's response cache leaks across sics / ciks / entityName. The endpoint sits behind an API Gateway cache keyed on q, the date window, forms and from/page — but not on sics, ciks or entityName. Measured 2026-08-28: a sics=7372 request returned the unfiltered 10,000-hit result cached seconds earlier for the same q and dates, and the reverse leak (an unfiltered request served the software-only set) too. The body's echoed query shows which filters actually ran. The pack appends a negated nonsense token to q (-zqfs7372) whenever one of those filters is set — efts compiles it to a must_not that matches nothing (totals verified identical), and the cache key becomes unique per filter set — and re-checks sic/cik on every row, reporting in note if anything was dropped. Any other pack passing ciks/sics to efts is exposed to the same leak.

• Coverage floor is 2001-01-01; an earlier since is clamped and noted in the response.

Quick Start

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

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

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/sec-contracts/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:

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

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1576+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/sec_contracts_search \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"query":"change of control","exhibit_type":"EX-10","since":"2025-01-01","limit":12}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/sec_contracts_search. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Standalone (no gateway account)

This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sec-contracts": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-sec-contracts"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-sec-contracts

It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.

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:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Sec Contracts data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• Docs and guides

• pipeworx.io

License

MIT