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DimensionProphet TraderDeprecated AI-driven options trading MCP server (successor: OpenProphet)Firecrawl MCP ServerFirecrawl's official MCP server for web search, scraping, and structured extraction for AI agents
FMRS37 / 100 · D75 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions3 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance4 / 2016 / 20
Documentation13 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience9 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Developers comfortable with Go and the Alpaca API who want to experiment with AI-driven options strategies in a paper trading sandbox
  • Engineers interested in an example architecture for wiring Claude Code to a custom trading backend via MCP
  • Scenarios needing clean, structured web context fed to an AI assistant
  • Users already on the Firecrawl platform who want to call its scraping capability directly via MCP
Not for
  • Anyone wanting to trade real money in production — the author explicitly warns to use paper trading only
  • Users who need active maintenance or updates, since this repo is deprecated and development has moved to OpenProphet
  • Users without an Alpaca trading account and API keys, or unfamiliar with compiling and running a Go backend
  • Simple static-page scraping where you don't want to depend on a third-party API and incur call costs
  • Sites that explicitly disallow automated access (robots.txt)
Required permissions
  • Alpaca API keys (permission to place/cancel orders and read positions and account balance)
  • Optional Gemini API key for AI-based news cleaning and summarization
  • Local filesystem write access for the SQLite database and activity_logs/decisive_actions logs
  • Outbound network access to Alpaca, Google News, MarketWatch, and Gemini services
  • Requires a Firecrawl API key to call; cost and quota are governed by the Firecrawl account
  • firecrawl_agent/firecrawl_interact perform automated browser interaction, which may trigger login or form-submission flows on the target site
Risks and side effects
  • Misconfiguring a live (non-paper) Alpaca endpoint can result in real financial losses; the author provides no warranty
  • The project is marked deprecated by its author and no longer receives updates or fixes — review the code yourself before relying on it
  • AI-generated trading decisions may be flawed and should be reviewed before execution
  • Alpaca and Gemini API keys are stored in plaintext in the .env file and must be protected from exposure
  • Bulk crawl/map tools can generate significant request volume against a target site — respect the site's rate limits and terms of service
  • firecrawl_agent's interactive action chain is longer — define task boundaries clearly before running it to avoid accidentally triggering actions on a sensitive site
Supported clientsClaude CodeClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp
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