# `com.quantwright/agent-api` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.quantwright/agent-api
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.quantwright/agent-api
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.quantwright (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-29T13:17:37.931Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
QuantWright
Backtests with costs, a held-out test that counts once, a score that counts every version tried.
```

Scanned 2026-10-29T13:18:02.244Z over streamable-http.

**6 tools: 1 do something that can't be undone, 4 change things and 1 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 1 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 4 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 1 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged private-data or untrusted-input.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | none |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | none |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | `mcp__agent-api__create_study` |

## Findings

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `describe_data` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "describe_data" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "describe_data" says "describe": a word for reading.
```

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `compare_trades` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "compare_trades" as not read-only (readOnlyHint: false), and its words say it reads.

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":false,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":false,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "compare_trades" says "compare": a word for reading.
```


## Can't be undone (1)

Sends, pays, publishes or merges: once done, it cannot be taken back. Claude Code: ask.

### `create_study`

- The name "create_study" says "create": a word for a change.
- The input addresses people (input.hold_out.to): what it sends cannot be taken back.
- Tag outbound: The input takes a destination (input.hold_out.to): what the tool writes goes there.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Opens a study, the named set of runs every backtest belongs to: call it once per question, before run_backtest. Can set a hold-out period, once and only here, that no run tests except run_held_out_test.
```

## Changes things (4)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `compare_trades`

- The name "compare_trades" says "compare": a word for reading.
- The server marks it as not read-only (readOnlyHint: false).
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Checks a trader's own trades against a run's rule, on the price history this server holds: for each trade, in their order, whether the rule would have taken it and, if not, why (already in a trade, no entry signal that day, no bar that day). Use it when the trader lists trades they made and asks which the rule took, instead of working it out by hand. Takes a run (run_id) and the trades, each {side, entry, exit?}; answers in words, never prices. It re-runs the run's code, so it counts as a run on the run's symbol.
```

### `describe_data`

- The name "describe_data" says "describe": a word for reading.
- The description's first verb is "start": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Start here to backtest a trading idea. This server holds the price history (US stocks and ETFs, spot crypto, FX, spot gold and silver; daily and intraday bars) and runs backtests on it, so no price data needs to be downloaded or found on the web. Returns the markets and bar sizes served, the rules every run is held to, and how to write the strategy code; then call create_study.
```

### `run_backtest`

- The name "run_backtest" says "run": a word for a change.
- The input takes a statement or command to run (input.code), which can change anything it can reach.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Backtests a trading rule on this server's price history: one backtesting.py Strategy class, one symbol, one bar size, in a study. Use it to test, backtest or evaluate a trading rule or strategy, instead of downloading prices or searching the web for results. Returns summary figures (return, drawdown, Sharpe, win rate, trades, a grade, whether it beat buy-and-hold) and the run's trades (when each entered and left, which exit ended it, its side, win or loss), never prices or bars; a figure may be withheld, with the reason. Waits up to 90 s, then answers status "running" with a run_id for get_result.
```

### `run_held_out_test`

- The name "run_held_out_test" says "run": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The final out-of-sample check: runs a finished run's exact code once over its study's hold-out period. Call it at the end, on the run you would keep: the first held-out test per account and market is the one that counts, and a hold-out with too few trades for figures (a result needs 10) spends it all the same: each development run says how many trades the hold-out is expected to hold, in `hold_out_estimate`.
```

## Only reads (1)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `get_result`

- The name "get_result" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Reads a backtest result by its run_id (when run_backtest answered "running", call this until the run ends), or a study's runs by study_id (one of them with version). A run comes with its trades, a page at a time (trades_page).
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `agent-api`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__agent-api__get_result"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__agent-api__describe_data",
      "mcp__agent-api__create_study",
      "mcp__agent-api__run_backtest",
      "mcp__agent-api__run_held_out_test",
      "mcp__agent-api__compare_trades"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

Capability tags behind the rules (a read tagged outbound is asked about):

- `mcp__agent-api__create_study`: outbound