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DimensionSEC EDGAR MCP ServerQuery SEC EDGAR filings, XBRL financials, and company data through MCP. STDIO & Streamable HTTP.DBHubBytebase's official, minimalist two-tool database MCP server
FMRS68 / 100 · C74 / 100 · B
Reliability11 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions15 / 2013 / 20
Maintenance11 / 2016 / 20
Documentation17 / 2015 / 20
Setup experience14 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Financial analysts and researchers needing fast, structured access to SEC filings.
  • Developers wanting to run SQL queries on SEC data directly within MCP clients.
  • Regtech and data scientists interested in XBRL data.
  • Scenarios wanting the smallest possible tool count and lowest context-window overhead for database access
  • Cases needing to grant non-technical teammates safe, read-only database access
Not for
  • Users requiring totally offline access to historical filings (though a local mirror option exists).
  • Scenarios needing real-time streaming or very low latency (SEC has rate limits and publication lag).
  • Users who want to avoid setting up their own EDGAR_USER_AGENT (but can use the hosted instance).
  • Scenarios needing database administration operations (creating indexes, altering schema) rather than just querying (DBHub is positioned as a query tool, not a DBA management tool)
Required permissions
  • Access to SEC EDGAR public API (no API key, but valid User-Agent required).
  • When self-hosting locally, runs a local server process that needs a Node/Bun runtime.
  • Optional: when using the local SQLite mirror, stores data and caches on disk.
  • Requires a database connection string (DSN), which may contain sensitive credentials
  • execute_sql can run arbitrary SQL (including writes) by default — must be constrained via read-only mode or the underlying database account's own permissions
Risks and side effects
  • SEC requires a valid User-Agent like 'YourAppName [email protected]'; otherwise IP blocks could occur.
  • The tool accesses public APIs and may be rate-limited if too many requests are made.
  • As a non-official server, validate reliability and maintenance status before using in production.
  • Under default settings, if the connected database account has write access, execute_sql could let the assistant perform an unintended write or delete — pair with a read-only database account in production
  • The DSN contains a plaintext password — pay attention to the access permissions on wherever the config is stored
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Cursor, VS CodeClaude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Zed
Tools172