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Developer Tools

Use TradeSearcher strategies and backtests inside Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other coding agents — or straight from your terminal.

There are two ways to connect, both backed by the same data:

  • CLI — a command-line tool to query strategies from your shell or scripts.
  • MCP server — add one MCP server and your agent gets tools to search, compare, and export strategy source.

Get an API key​

The CLI and MCP server authenticate with a personal API key.

  1. Open your account page.
  2. Under Agent API keys, give the key a name and click Create API key.
  3. Copy the key immediately — it is shown only once.

The key is passed to the tools through the TRADESEARCHER_API_KEY environment variable (MCP) or saved by tradesearcher auth login (CLI).

Free vs Premium​

Free accounts can test the tools with limited results and cannot see high-performance backtests (profit factor above 3). Premium unlocks stronger backtests, more results, recent trades, and full strategy details — through the same tools.

Upgrade to Premium

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