Click on "Deploy Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type @ followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@edgar-mcp Search 10-K filings from 2024 that mention "cybersecurity risks""
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
An MCP server that lets Claude search the full text of SEC filings.
Ask Claude "which companies discussed agentic AI in their 10-Ks this year?" and it searches EDGAR directly — 235 real filings, with links.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/afa2e1e5-ee79-42ad-a736-6f016b8f6c64
EDGAR filters by CIK, a ten-digit identifier that means nothing to a human and everything to the API. The obvious design accepts a CIK as a tool parameter and lets the model supply it. That fails in the worst possible way: a language model will confidently invent a CIK for any company it hasn't memorized, and a wrong company's filings look exactly like the right company's — correctly formatted, plausible, and completely wrong, with nothing to signal the error. So the tools accept a ticker or company name and resolve it in code against the SEC's own mapping file. Where the name is ambiguous — "American" matches 66 companies — the resolver returns the candidate list rather than picking the best-scoring match, and Claude asks which one you meant. The model handles the easy cases through context; the code catches the ones it gets wrong.
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npm install -g @alinarashid/edgar-mcpAdd to claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"edgar": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@alinarashid/edgar-mcp"],
"env": {
"SEC_USER_AGENT": "your-app your@email.com"
}
}
}
}SEC_USER_AGENT is required. The SEC rejects requests that don't identify
the caller, and a missing header returns 403 rather than an empty result.
Restart Claude Desktop.
search_filings — full-text search across every filing since 2001.
Filter by form type, date range, and company. Returns the filing company,
form, date, and a document link.
list_company_filings — one company's filings, newest first. Accepts a
ticker or name. Filter by form type, or you will mostly get Form 4 insider
trades.
Which companies mentioned "agentic AI" in their 10-K filings this year?
Show me American Airlines' recent quarterly reports.
Find 8-K filings from 2026 that mention "material weakness".
Search returns metadata, not text. It tells you which filings match, not what they say. Follow the URL to read the language.
Ranking is keyword relevance, not company size. A short filing that repeats a phrase outranks a 300-page 10-K that mentions it twice.
Public companies only. Private companies file nothing with the SEC.
Searching within a company includes third-party filings tagged with that CIK, such as shareholder proposals filed by outside groups.
The full-text endpoint at efts.sec.gov is undocumented — the SEC
publishes no parameter list, response schema, or stability guarantee. This
package reads defensively and may need updating if the shape changes.
Requests are serialized to roughly 8 per second, under the SEC's published ceiling of 10.
MIT
List filings a specific public company submitted, newest first. Use when the user names a company and wants its recent reports rather than searching for particular words. Accepts a ticker or company name and resolves it internally. Companies file constantly, mostly routine insider-trading forms, so filter by form type unless the user wants everything.
Inputs: company (required), forms, limit.
Search the full text of SEC filings from 2001 onward. Returns which filings contain the search terms, with the filing company, form type, date, and a link. Use this to find how public companies discuss a topic in their own words. IMPORTANT: returns filing metadata only, not the matching text; follow the URL to read what a filing says. Results rank by keyword relevance, not company size, so small companies often outrank large ones. Do not use for stock prices, financial figures, or private companies, which do not file with the SEC.
Inputs: query (required), forms, limit, company, +2 more.
Recent tool additions, removals, and schema changes observed during successful MCP inspections.
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Scored across 2 tools
The two tools are sharply distinct: one searches full-text across all filings, the other lists filings for a specific company. There is no overlap in purpose or likely misselection.
Both tool names follow a consistent verb_noun pattern: search_filings and list_company_filings. The convention is uniform and predictable.
Two tools is at the thin end of the range, but the server's stated scope of accessing EDGAR filings can reasonably be covered by search and list operations. It feels minimal rather than bloated.
The tools cover discovery (keyword search and per-company listing) but lack any retrieval tool to actually read a filing's content. Search results intentionally return metadata only, and without a fetch-filing tool, agents cannot access the underlying text, creating a dead end.
Extract structured SEC EDGAR company facts, CIK lookups, and regulatory financial filings.
SEC EDGAR company lookup, filings, XBRL financials and filing text. Pay per call in USDC via x402.
SEC EDGAR filings for AI agents: company lookup, filings, financials, insider trades. No keys.
SEC EDGAR filings for AI agents: company lookup, filings, financials, insider trades. No keys.
