# Vanguard Advisor Tools MCP Server

Vanguard Advisor Tools brings Vanguard’s model portfolio data into Claude. Given a need to solve for a target portfolio, the connector returns detailed, model portfolio data, including expense ratios, asset class, start date and portfolio characteristics so that advisors can research and compare solutions and move from analysis to implementation with conviction.
 
Data Scope: The connector is read-only and exposes only publicly available US model data. It does not access, return, or store any client, account, or personally identifiable information (PII).

Third-party tools are provided for informational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice.

**Publisher claimed.** 1 tool reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under [financial-services](/mcp/for/financial-services). Published by [advisors.vanguard.com](https://advisors.vanguard.com/).

## At a glance

**Available in:** `claude`, `claude-api`, `claude-code`, `claude-desktop`

**Documentation:** [Open docs](https://advisors.vanguard.com/content/dam/fas/engagement/VanguardAdvisorToolsConnector.pdf)

## Status

Pod has not dialled Vanguard Advisor Tools yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Tools

Its publisher lists 1 tool. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

- `get_model_portfolios`

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://mcp.vanguard.com/advisors`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vanguard-advisor-tools": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.vanguard.com/advisors"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Vanguard Advisor Tools yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

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<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find Vanguard Advisor Tools, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "Vanguard Advisor Tools",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

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```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=Vanguard Advisor Tools' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

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