An AI skill that gives Claude and other assistants real-time access to stock quotes, cryptocurrency prices, forex rates, macroeconomic indicators, analyst ratings, insider trades, financial news, and SEC filings.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Real-time Data | Live market quotes, not static training data |
| 7 Data Categories | Stocks · Crypto · Forex · Macro · News · Filings · Sentiment |
| Free Tier | Most endpoints work with any valid API key at no cost |
| Standard Format | Follows Anthropic SKILL.md specification |
Register at finskills.net/register — free tier available.
Choose one of the methods below:
npx skills add finskills/finskills- Open claude.ai → select or create a Project
- Go to Project Knowledge → click Add content
- Download
SKILL.mdand upload it as project knowledge
# Download into Cursor rules directory
mkdir -p .cursor/rules
curl -o .cursor/rules/finskills.mdc https://finskills.net/SKILL.md# Add to project-level Copilot instructions
mkdir -p .github
curl -o .github/copilot-instructions.md https://finskills.net/SKILL.mdcurl -O https://finskills.net/SKILL.mdWhen prompted, provide your API key. It will be sent as the X-API-Key header on all requests.
Ask natural language questions — no special commands needed.
| You ask | Endpoints called |
|---|---|
| "What's Apple's stock price and analyst consensus?" | /v1/stocks/quote/AAPL + /v1/free/stocks/analyst-rating-summary/AAPL |
| "Compare Bitcoin and Ethereum over the last 30 days" | /v1/free/crypto/history/bitcoin?days=30 + /v1/free/crypto/history/ethereum?days=30 |
| "What's the USD/EUR exchange rate trend this year?" | /v1/free/forex/history?base=USD&target=EUR |
| "Show US GDP growth and inflation for the last 5 years" | /v1/free/macro/gdp?country=US + /v1/free/macro/inflation?country=US |
| "Find Tesla's latest 10-K SEC filing" | /v1/free/sec/filings/0001318605 |
| "Are any Congress members trading NVIDIA?" | /v1/free/stocks/congress-trades?symbol=NVDA |
| "Show me sector performance and market movers today" | /v1/market/summary + /v1/market/sectors |
| "Are Tesla insiders buying or selling?" | /v1/free/stocks/insider-trades/TSLA |
- Stocks — Real-time quotes, historical OHLCV, company profiles, financials, dividends, options, earnings, holders
- Alternative Data — Analyst ratings, Congress trades, insider transactions, WallStreetBets sentiment
- Cryptocurrency — Prices, market rankings, historical data (CoinGecko IDs: bitcoin, ethereum, solana…)
- Forex — Live exchange rates, historical rate data
- Macroeconomics — GDP, inflation, Treasury yields, FRED economic series, interest rates
- Market Overview — Major indices, sector performance, trending tickers
- News — Financial headlines, stock-specific news
- SEC Filings — 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K filings, XBRL structured data
You ask a question
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SKILL.md tells Claude which endpoint to call
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Claude sends HTTP request to Finskills API (with X-API-Key header)
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Finskills returns real-time JSON data
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Claude formats a contextualized answer
finskills/
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── skills/
└── finskills/
└── SKILL.md ← The skill definition file
Finskills also supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for direct tool-based integration:
MCP Endpoint: https://finskills.net/mcp
Transport: Streamable HTTP (SSE)
See finskills.net/mcp for MCP documentation.
- Website: finskills.net
- API Docs: finskills.net/documentation
- Skill Page: finskills.net/skill
- MCP Docs: finskills.net/mcp
- Register: finskills.net/register
- Anthropic Skills Spec: github.com/anthropics/skills