J-Quants MCP MCP Server
MCP server for retrieving Japanese stock market data via J-Quants API v2
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Published as jquants-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.
Known issues
132 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
Remove the standalone fastmcp dependency (HTTP/OAuth path)
Context
PR #566 migrated the stdio server (server.py + tools/) from the standalone fastmcp package to the official mcp SDK's mcp.server.fastmcp.FastMCP. This is one step in a larger effort to drop the standalone fastmcp dependency entirely.
What's left
fastmcp is still a direct dependency because these modules still import from it and are not reachable from the stdio-only server:
auth.py— Bearer token + Google/GitHub OAuth providerssettings/— the/settingswe
Read the thread · 2026-08-08 · closed · 5 comments
Tier 1 cache has no freshness bound: corrections to already-cached rows are never re-fetched
Summary
Tier 1 (row-level) cache reads have no freshness bound of any kind. CacheStore.get_rows selects rows matching the key/date filters and returns them regardless of when they were written:
sql = f"SELECT data FROM {table} WHERE {where} ORDER BY {date_column}"
The fetched_at column exists on every Tier 1 table (cache/schema.py writes it in generate_ddl) but is never read back. The ENDPOINT_TTL table in cache/store.py governs Tier 2 response caching only.
Read the thread · 2026-08-10 · closed · 2 comments
Alerts and the cache runbook do not cover the stdio (jquants) Cloud Run service
Summary
Every Cloud Monitoring alert policy in ops/alerts/ filters on resource.labels.service_name="jquants-mcp". The mcp-stdio serve deployment runs as a separate Cloud Run service named jquants, so none of these policies can fire for it. The stdio service currently has no alerting at all.
ops/alerts/03-oom-kill.yaml:17
ops/alerts/05-cache-db-download-fail.yaml:19
ops/alerts/07-cache-stale.yaml:27
(and the remaining policies in that directory follow the same pattern)
Read the thread · 2026-08-10 · closed · 2 comments
feat: add company name field to ranking/screener tools
Background
Currently many tools return only the stock code, requiring a separate get_equities_master call to resolve the company name. This adds latency and extra round-trips.
Requested Change
Add a name field (company name) to the response of the following tools by joining against the equities master cache internally:
detect_price_limit— addnameto each itemget_top_movers— addnameto each itemget_top_volume— addnameto each itemdetect_ytd_high_low—
Read the thread · 2026-05-05 · closed · 2 comments
docs: user-facing documentation with screenshots and GitHub Pages
Motivation
The current README is comprehensive but developer-oriented. New users — especially those who want to use Japanese stock data with Claude but are not familiar with MCP infrastructure — need a gentler entry point:
- A visual impression of what the tool actually does
- A minimal install-and-run guide without wading through deployment options
- Something that appears in Google search results
Proposed approach: incremental
Phase 1 — Screenshots in README (small, immediate)
A
Read the thread · 2026-05-03 · closed · 2 comments
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get_equities_bars_daily may return incomplete data for code + date_to when cache is partially populated
Preflight
- I searched existing issues and this is not a duplicate
- I am running a recent release and the issue still reproduces
jquants-mcp version
1.3.0
J-Quants plan
Free
Python version
3.12.x
What happened?
Bug: get_equities_bars_daily may return incomplete data for code + date_to when cache is partially populated
Summary
When get_equities_bars_daily is called with code and date_to but without date_from, the cache completeness check
Read the thread · 2026-08-29 · open · external user · 0 comments
Tier 2 cache key mismatch: daily_fetch writes ?date= but the reader expects |date=
Summary
scripts/daily_fetch.py's fetch_earnings_calendar writes a date-keyed Tier 2
cache entry as a literal string with ?:
cache_key = f"/equities/earnings-calendar?date={date_key}"
but the tool's date-filtered read path builds its lookup key via
make_cache_key, which joins parts with |:
cache_key = make_cache_key("/equities/earnings-calendar", {"date": date_key})
# -> "/equities/earnings-calendar|date=20260301"
These never match in production. The
Read the thread · 2026-08-18 · open · 0 comments
health_check: surface cache.db artifact age, not just data coverage
Summary
Split out from #587 (item 3 of its suggested work list), which is otherwise resolved and being closed.
health_check reports latest_cache_date, which tells a caller the newest date present in the cache — data coverage, not artifact age. It says nothing about when the underlying cache.db artifact itself was last downloaded/refreshed, or how long it's been sitting in a warm instance since the publisher's last export.
Why this matters
Given Tier 1 cache has no time-ba
Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · open · 0 comments
check_adj_factor() misreads AdjFactor as cumulative state instead of a per-date event flag (false positive + false negative)
Summary
CacheStore.check_adj_factor() (src/jquants_mcp/cache/store.py:1686-1722) treats AdjFactor as if it were a stable per-code state value, but J-Quants' AdjFactor field is actually a per-date event flag: it is 1.0 on ordinary trading days and only carries the split/consolidation/rights-issue ratio on the effective date of that specific corporate action. Comparing "the AdjFactor of the single most-recently-cached row" against "the AdjFactor of the single most-recently-fetche
Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments
No automated deploy path for the jquants (stdio) Cloud Run service
Summary
The jquants Cloud Run service (mcp-stdio serve + oauth2-proxy sidecar) has no automated deploy path. Every release reaches it only through a manual gcloud builds submit + gcloud run services update. That has now happened three times in three days (#575, #581, #585).
Two independent reasons cd.yml does not cover it
1. The deploy step is disabled. cd.yml's "Decide whether to deploy" hard-codes should_deploy=false and emits a warning. This is the circuit bre
Read the thread · 2026-08-10 · closed · 0 comments
Remove the 15-minute cache.db poll: cold starts already deliver a current cache
Summary
scripts/cache-poll.crontab re-downloads cache.db from GCS every 15 minutes (96 ticks/day) on the mcp-stdio serve Cloud Run deployment. The publisher exports to GCS once per weekday, so at most 1 of those 96 ticks can ever find new content — and even that one is largely redundant given how the service scales.
Why the poll is mostly wasted work
Cold starts already deliver a current cache. The service runs with min-instances=0. An idle instance is torn down, and eve
Read the thread · 2026-08-10 · closed · 0 comments
verify_cache.py's cron-triggered quick_check doesn't skip on an unchanged cache.db
verify_cache.py's cron-triggered quick_check doesn't skip on an unchanged cache.db
Context
#579/#581 made gcs_sync.py's download_cache_db() skip redundant re-downloads (and the atomic replace that always allocates a new inode) when the GCS generation of the effective object is unchanged. The stated goal included avoiding a "fresh, unnecessary PRAGMA quick_check" on cache-poll.crontab's 15-minute tick.
Gap
cache-poll.crontab unconditionally chains verify_cache.py after `gc
Read the thread · 2026-08-10 · closed · 0 comments
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