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.
- Open your account page.
- Under Agent API keys, give the key a name and click Create API key.
- 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 run searches without a search-count limit, with limited result sets and details. Premium expands the returned results and unlocks the full details available to the account — through the same tools.