Free API key
Real-time & market data
Alpha Vantage Market Skill
Add quotes, market time series and selected company data to a personal investment agent.
- Source
- Alpha Vantage
- Access
- Free API key
What this adds to your agent
Fetch latest global quotes
Retrieve daily price history
Call technical and fundamental endpoints
Fetch latest global quotes
Free-tier availability and limits vary by endpoint; cache results and handle rate-limit messages explicitly.
Alpha Vantage · market
Build the tool server
server.py
from mcp.server.fastmcp import FastMCP
import os, requests
mcp = FastMCP("Alpha Vantage")
@mcp.tool()
def global_quote(symbol: str) -> dict:
"""Return the latest Alpha Vantage global quote."""
params = {"function": "GLOBAL_QUOTE", "symbol": symbol,
"apikey": os.environ["ALPHA_VANTAGE_API_KEY"]}
data = requests.get("https://www.alphavantage.co/query",
params=params, timeout=20).json()
return data.get("Global Quote", data)
if __name__ == "__main__": mcp.run()Examples and expected outcomes
Fetch prices and statements in agent chat
- Sourced evidence
- Repeatable steps
- Explicit uncertainty
Create a read-only research brief
- Sourced evidence
- Repeatable steps
- Explicit uncertainty
Compare tickers with source timestamps
- Sourced evidence
- Repeatable steps
- Explicit uncertainty
Access requirements
ALPHA_VANTAGE_API_KEY
Review source and upstream data licenses
Use caching, backoff and bounded concurrency
Connect to your Agent
Claude config
{
"mcpServers": {
"alpha-vantage-agent": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"server.py"
],
"env": {
"ALPHA_VANTAGE_API_KEY": "YOUR_KEY"
}
}
}
}Prompt example
“Use Alpha Vantage Market Skill to research AAPL. List sources and timestamps first, then separate facts, calculations, risks and missing data. Do not give personalized trading advice.”
When not to use it
- Free-tier availability and limits vary by endpoint; cache results and handle rate-limit messages explicitly.
Connect it to your agent
Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"alpha-vantage-agent": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"server.py"
],
"env": {
"ALPHA_VANTAGE_API_KEY": "YOUR_KEY"
}
}
}
}“Use the connected tool to research AAPL. State the source and timestamp for every factual claim, separate facts from interpretation, and do not give personalized financial advice.”
Production checklist
- Keep secrets outside prompts and source code
- Allowlist read-only tools first
- Log tool inputs, outputs and source timestamps
- Require citations and handle missing data explicitly
When not to use it
Free-tier availability and limits vary by endpoint; cache results and handle rate-limit messages explicitly.
Open official documentationProject-specific questions
What can Alpha Vantage Market Skill do in a real workflow?
Fetch latest global quotes Retrieve daily price history Call technical and fundamental endpoints
What access and compatibility does Alpha Vantage Market Skill require?
Free API key. Alpha Vantage.
What is the main implementation risk with Alpha Vantage Market Skill?
Free-tier availability and limits vary by endpoint; cache results and handle rate-limit messages explicitly.