sc-mcp

An MCP server that wraps the Scalable Capital sc CLI, exposing your broker data to any MCP-capable harness (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor, …).

[!Warning] Unofficial. This is a community, read-only wrapper around Scalable Capital's official sc CLI, not affiliated with or endorsed by Scalable Capital. It's a stopgap until they ship a first-party MCP server; expect to retire it when they do.

No warranty / use at your own risk. Provided "as is" under the MIT License, with no warranty of any kind. The author takes no responsibility for any loss, damage, incorrect data, or financial consequence arising from its use. This is a personal tool for your own broker data, you are responsible for verifying anything you act on. It is not financial advice.

Tools

This server is read-only, it never places trades or mutates account state. All calls hit the broker live. Responses are cached in-process for 5 minutes.

The sc CLI also exposes write operations (watchlist, price-alerts, savings-plans, trades). These are deliberately not included in this release. Any future write support will be opt-in, disabled by default, and enabled only via an explicit environment flag, never on by default. Money-moving commands (trade, savings-plans) are out of scope entirely.

Related MCP server: ibkr-mcp

Prerequisites

1. uv Python package manager installed and available on PATH.

2. The sc CLI installed and on PATH.

3. An authenticated session: sc login.

Compatibility

Tested against sc 0.2.x. The sc CLI is pre-1.0, so its command surface can change between minor versions, the server logs a warning to stderr at startup if your installed sc differs from the tested major.minor. Since sc is an external binary, not a Python dependency, so this is the only enforcement available. If you see the warning and a tool misbehaves, that mismatch is the likely cause.

Install

As long as the pre-requisites are met, installing as a Claude plugin or any other agent is breezy.

Claude Code (plugin, easiest)

This repo is also a Claude Code plugin marketplace. Two commands:

/plugin marketplace add ratulotron/sc-mcp
/plugin install sc-mcp@ratulotron

That registers the scalable-capital MCP server and a usage skill. It also bundles a light skill that tells Claude when and how to use the tools.

Claude Code (manual)

claude mcp add scalable-capital -- uvx --from git+https://github.com/ratulotron/sc-mcp@v0.1.0 sc-mcp

Cursor

Add to Cursor — or add to .cursor/mcp.json (or ~/.cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scalable-capital": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/ratulotron/sc-mcp@v0.1.0", "sc-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Codex

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.scalable-capital]
command = "uvx"
args = ["--from", "git+https://github.com/ratulotron/sc-mcp@v0.1.0", "sc-mcp"]

Claude Desktop (bundle, no config editing)

Download sc-mcp.mcpb, then in Claude Desktop go to Settings → Extensions → Install Extension and pick the file.

[!Note] If Claude Desktop can't find uvx, open the extension's settings and set the full path (e.g. /opt/homebrew/bin/uvx). GUI apps on macOS don't always inherit your shell PATH.

VS Code / other MCP clients

Add the standard server config (VS Code mcp.json, or any client's MCP config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scalable-capital": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/ratulotron/sc-mcp@v0.1.0", "sc-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Pin the @v0.1.0 tag (see Versioning). Drop it to track the latest main.

Configuration

Develop

uv sync
uv run sc-mcp      # starts the stdio server
uv run pytest

Maintaining compatibility as sc evolves, when to add/update tools, bump SUPPORTED_SC_VERSION, and the read-only invariants, is documented in CLAUDE.md.

Versioning

This package uses SemVer. The tools are the public API:

Releases are tagged vX.Y.Z. Pin a tag when installing, uvx --from git+... tracks the default branch (latest) by default, so without a pin your tool surface can change underneath you:

uvx --from git+https://github.com/ratulotron/sc-mcp@v0.1.0 sc-mcp

Most version bumps here are driven by sc CLI changes (see Compatibility), but the version number is this package's own, it does not mirror the sc version.

License

MIT