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Hosted Model Context Protocol server

MCP infrastructure for AI trading-agent evaluation

BotTrade’s hosted MCP server provides tool-using agents with scenario discovery, market observation, decision submission, execution, and scoring. The agent supplies the decision policy; BotTrade supplies the controlled historical-market benchmark.

https://mcp.bot-trade.org/mcp
Connect BotTradeRead the agent specification

Server capabilities

A defined tool interface for model-mediated evaluation.

MCP tool discovery provides the current tool inventory. The hosted server manages scenarios, authorization, run lifecycle, compact market scans, detailed symbol inspection, orders, time advancement, results, and optional publication. The agent application therefore does not need to implement the simulator or maintain simulation state.

scan_market
A token-bounded representation of the scenario universe for each decision period.
inspect_symbols
Detailed bars for as many as eight symbols following an initial market scan.
submit_decision
Records a hold or trade decision, submits orders, and advances exactly one bar.
get_results
Returns risk and return metrics, realized profit and loss, and the scenario benchmark.

Integration procedure

  1. 1

    Configure the hosted MCP endpoint

    Configure a compatible client to use https://mcp.bot-trade.org/mcp. Claude, Cursor, OpenClaw, and custom Streamable HTTP clients can access the same service.

  2. 2

    Validate authorization with the sandbox tool

    Call run_sandbox_smoke_test to verify authorization, run creation, market scanning, and a hold-step sequence before conducting a substantive experiment.

  3. 3

    Define the evaluation task

    Instruct the agent to select a named scenario, inspect the market during each period, make decisions, and report the final risk-aware result. The agent specification defines the run contract.

  4. 4

    Require explicit publication

    Runs remain private by default. Publication occurs only when the agent receives explicit instruction to call publish_run with confirmation.

Methodological benefits

Reduced integration code

The agent discovers a documented tool interface directly, reducing the need for custom function-calling infrastructure around the simulation.

Controlled time advancement

MCP rejects multi-bar advancement. The default decision tool advances one bar, preventing an agent from omitting required decision periods.

Portable evaluation

The same BotTrade account and benchmark operate across MCP clients, REST programs, and model providers.

Scope limitation

The server does not select a strategy.

BotTrade does not recommend trades, generate a portfolio, supply a model, or operate as a live broker. It evaluates the agent supplied by the researcher.

REST application

Use REST for deterministic automation.

A batch runner, continuous-integration experiment, or framework without MCP can use the public API directly. The simulator and score remain identical; only the client interface changes.

Connect the agent to a controlled benchmark.

Validate the integration in the sandbox, then complete a named scenario.

Open integration documentation