Option Desk MCP Server

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Option Desk is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 13 tools. Last commit 16 Sep 2026.

Option analytics over the SYNTH sample or a permitted chain: Greeks, positioning, payoffs, plots.

Uptime history 52 days of history · worst day 92%

52 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

228 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 16 Sep 2026

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 16 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

16 Sep a tool changed version

Option Desk missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add optiondesk --transport http https://optiondesk.avidquant.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://optiondesk.avidquant.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.optiondesk]
url = "https://optiondesk.avidquant.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "optiondesk": {
      "url": "https://optiondesk.avidquant.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "optiondesk": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://optiondesk.avidquant.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 13

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

option

option_chain_snapshot

Summarize SYNTH or analyze a user-supplied option chain for private analysis. This service never fetches market data.

option_delete_snapshot

Delete one short-lived imported dashboard before its automatic one-hour expiry.

option_desk_status

Check the Option Desk data mode, source, refresh time, and public licence gate before requesting figures. No live feed or hosted backtest tool exists, even with uploaded history. Do not offer hosted backtests.

option_import_snapshot

Import user-supplied option-chain data into a bearer-private interactive dashboard. Delete the artifacts after one hour.

option_plots

Render opaque PNG plots in the conversation. The SYNTH sample offers the market plot (dealer gamma exposure, open interest, volume and the smile by strike), the Greek ladder, and the structure comparison. Each is computed from the sample's own engine artifacts; there is no simulation or backtest for SYNTH because the hosted service has no price history.

option_plots_from_snapshot

Create opaque market and Greek PNG images from a user-supplied snapshot. Stamp source, capture time, expiry, and warnings on every image. Delete temporary files before the response.

option_positioning

Return gamma walls, gamma flip, and max pain from SYNTH or a user-supplied chain. Dealer signs are an assumption, not observed positions.

option_private_dashboard

Create a private interactive dashboard from user-supplied data. The bearer URL and all derived artifacts expire after one hour.

option_report_plots

Return the market map, Greek ladder, strategy comparison and up to three requested payoff charts in ONE widget. Prefer this tool for multi-chart reports instead of parallel individual plot calls. Includes strategy_records, Greek units, scenarios and cost assumptions. Use those records for tables; never invent currency or a multiplier. Uses SYNTH or a user-supplied chain; never fetches live data.

option_snapshot_schema

Return the accepted CSV and JSON option-chain fields, safe repair rules, size limits, data-rights confirmation, and retention policy.

option_strategy_from_snapshot

Build one option structure from a user-supplied chain and return its opaque payoff PNG with permanent source and risk warnings.

option_strategy_plot

Show an option-strategy payoff as an opaque PNG in the conversation. Any structure in the engine playbook can be built on the SYNTH sample chain. A market ticker requires user-supplied chain data. Do not start a localhost dashboard.

option_validate_snapshot

Validate and safely normalize a user-supplied option-chain snapshot. Return corrections and a summary. Delete all temporary files before the response.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://optiondesk.avidquant.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	182 ms	9 min ago

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Option Desk — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Option Desk do?

It exposes 13 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: option_chain_snapshot, option_delete_snapshot, option_desk_status, option_import_snapshot, option_plots, option_plots_from_snapshot and 7 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Option Desk working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 228 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Option Desk?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Option Desk need an API key?

No. Option Desk completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 13 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Option Desk?

It answers our handshake in 228 ms on average, which is faster than 62% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Option Desk open source?

We cannot say either way: written in Python, 9 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.