# EdgarTools MCP Server

Open-source SEC EDGAR toolkit — 11 tools, 7 prompts, every filing type. No API key required.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `edgartools` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**16 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### MCP server fails to start with mcp 2.0.0

## Issue Type
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- [ ] Data Quality Issue (incorrect financial values, missing data)
- [ ] XBRL Parsing Issue (statement rendering, concept mapping)  
- [ ] Filing Access Issue (download failures, attachment problems)
- [ ] Performance Issue (slow operations, memory problems)
- [x] Compatibility Issue (platform/dependency conflicts)
- [ ] Documentation Issue (unclear instructions, missing examples)

## Environment

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dgunning/edgartools/issues/917) · 2026-07-29 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### MCP Server v5.17.0 - Output validation error: outputSchema defined but no structured output returned

**Environment**:

edgartools version: 5.17.0
mcp version: 1.26.0
Python: 3.12
Client: Claude Desktop (MCP client)

**Description**:
The MCP server in v5.17.0 defines outputSchema in tool definitions but returns text content instead of structured output. This causes all tool calls to fail with:

`Output validation error: outputSchema defined but no structured output returned
`

**Steps to reproduce**:

Configure edgartools MCP server in Claude Desktop
Call any tool (e.g., edgar_company with {"ide

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dgunning/edgartools/issues/662) · 2026-02-24 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### **Bug: `edgar_filing` MCP tool returns null for 10-Q narrative sections (MD&A, Risk Factors, etc.)**

## Issue Type
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- [ ] Data Quality Issue (incorrect financial values, missing data)
- [X] XBRL Parsing Issue (statement rendering, concept mapping)  
- [ ] Filing Access Issue (download failures, attachment problems)
- [ ] Performance Issue (slow operations, memory problems)
- [ ] Compatibility Issue (platform/dependency conflicts)
- [ ] Documentation Issue (unclear instructions, missing examples)

**Environment*

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dgunning/edgartools/issues/654) · 2026-02-19 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Simple docker or uvx mcp server will help.

## Feature Category
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- [ ] New API functionality
- [ ] Performance improvement
- [ ] Developer experience improvement
- [ ] Documentation enhancement
- [ x] Tool/utility addition

## Problem Statement
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
A clear and concise description of what the problem is. Ex. I'm always frustrated when [...]
I want to run this on the server instead of desktop as an MCP server. 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dgunning/edgartools/issues/653) · 2026-02-18 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### facts.get_fact() call returns None

## Issue Type
<!-- Select the primary category for this issue by putting an 'x' in the brackets -->
- [ x ] Data Quality Issue (incorrect financial values, missing data)
- [ ] XBRL Parsing Issue (statement rendering, concept mapping)  
- [ ] Filing Access Issue (download failures, attachment problems)
- [ ] Performance Issue (slow operations, memory problems)
- [ ] Compatibility Issue (platform/dependency conflicts)
- [ ] Documentation Issue (unclear instructions, missing examples)

## Environme

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dgunning/edgartools/issues/618) · 2026-01-25 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Most recent

### MCP `edgar_fund(action="portfolio")` `total_value` sums share counts, not dollars

## Summary

`edgar_fund(action="portfolio")`'s `total_value` field sums share/unit counts
instead of dollars, for every fund. Per-holding records in the same response
are correct — only the aggregate is wrong.

## Reproduction

edgartools 5.52.0:

```python
import asyncio
from edgar import set_identity
from edgar.ai.mcp.tools.fund import edgar_fund

set_identity("Your Name your@email.com")
r = asyncio.run(edgar_fund(action="portfolio", identifier="VFINX", limit=5))
print(r.data["total_value"])
p

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dgunning/edgartools/issues/1148) · 2026-08-25 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### MCP `edgar_trends(concepts=["revenue"])` returns a different concept depending on `periods`, and is wrong for some companies at every value

## Summary

`edgar_trends(concepts=["revenue"])` does not return revenue. What it returns
depends on the `periods` argument, it is wrong for some companies at every value
of `periods`, and it never signals that anything is off — the caller gets a
plausible number.

`revenue` is the documented value here: `concepts` carries
`"enum": list(CONCEPT_MAP.keys())`, and `CONCEPT_MAP["revenue"] = "Revenue"`.

## Reproduction

edgartools 5.52.0, also on `main` @ aa6dcb04. Right-hand column is the
company'

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dgunning/edgartools/issues/1138) · 2026-08-25 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### MCP `edgar_ownership(analysis_type="fund_portfolio")` always returns `holdings: []`

## Summary

`edgar_ownership(analysis_type="fund_portfolio")` returns `"holdings": []` for every
fund. `holdings_count` is populated correctly, so the response looks structurally
valid — an agent consuming it concludes the fund reports no positions.

## Reproduction

edgartools 5.52.0 (also reproduces on `main` at aa6dcb04):

```python
import asyncio
from edgar import set_identity
from edgar.ai.mcp.tools.ownership import edgar_ownership

set_identity("Your Name your@email.com")
r = asyncio.run(e

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dgunning/edgartools/issues/1136) · 2026-08-25 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### TenK Item 7 overflows to end-of-document when the TOC parse only anchors a subset of items (Coeur Mining 10-K)

## Issue Type
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- [x] Data Quality Issue (incorrect financial values, missing data)
- [ ] XBRL Parsing Issue (statement rendering, concept mapping)
- [ ] Filing Access Issue (download failures, attachment problems)
- [ ] Performance Issue (slow operations, memory problems)
- [ ] Compatibility Issue (platform/dependency conflicts)
- [ ] Documentation Issue (unclear instructions, missing examples)

## Environment
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[Read the thread](https://github.com/dgunning/edgartools/issues/904) · 2026-07-24 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Missing NullHandler in edgar package causes unexpected log output in application environments

## Issue Type
<!-- Select the primary category for this issue by putting an 'x' in the brackets -->
- [x] Data Quality Issue (incorrect financial values, missing data)
- [ ] XBRL Parsing Issue (statement rendering, concept mapping)  
- [ ] Filing Access Issue (download failures, attachment problems)
- [ ] Performance Issue (slow operations, memory problems)
- [ ] Compatibility Issue (platform/dependency conflicts)
- [ ] Documentation Issue (unclear instructions, missing examples)

Environment

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dgunning/edgartools/issues/856) · 2026-06-13 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### MCP and API Support for 6-K form type

## Feature Category
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- [ ] New API functionality
- [ ] Performance improvement
- [ ] Developer experience improvement
- [ ] Documentation enhancement
- [x] Tool/utility addition

## Problem Statement
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
Is it possible to support the 6-K form type?
Although this scenario is relatively complex, there are still a large number of non-US companies that urgently need thi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dgunning/edgartools/issues/788) · 2026-04-23 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Claude Desktop MCP Configuration Throws Output Schema Errors

## Issue Type
<!-- Select the primary category for this issue by putting an 'x' in the brackets -->
- [ ] Data Quality Issue (incorrect financial values, missing data)
- [ ] XBRL Parsing Issue (statement rendering, concept mapping)  
- [ ] Filing Access Issue (download failures, attachment problems)
- [ ] Performance Issue (slow operations, memory problems)
- [x] Compatibility Issue (platform/dependency conflicts)
- [ ] Documentation Issue (unclear instructions, missing examples)

## Environment

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dgunning/edgartools/issues/735) · 2026-03-26 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 16 reports Pod holds for EdgarTools](/mcp/edgartools/issues).

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