ManifoldBT Docs MCP Server

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ManifoldBT Docs is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Docs for writing manifoldbt backtests: DSL rules, signatures, examples and error fixes.

Uptime history 5 days of history

5 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

123 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 8 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

8 Nov a tool description was rewritten search_docs

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check ManifoldBT Docs every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add docs --transport http https://mcp.manifoldbt.com/mcp

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

https://mcp.manifoldbt.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.docs]
url = "https://mcp.manifoldbt.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docs": {
      "url": "https://mcp.manifoldbt.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "docs": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.manifoldbt.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

capabilities

get_capabilities

Which manifoldbt version this documentation covers, and which of the THREE licence tiers each feature needs. Check before writing code around sweeps, walk-forward, cross-exchange, the GPU or the tick layer: the first three refuse on Community, the last two on anything below Researcher -- and the two Researcher gates raise different exception types.

docs

search_docs

Search the manifoldbt documentation: DSL rules and pitfalls, indicator and API signatures, config fields, execution semantics (which price a stop or target fills at, which fee each fill pays, what a reversal counts as, which ddof an indicator uses), how to read result metrics honestly, and worked examples. Ask in natural language ('how do I reference another symbol', 'what happens when a bar gaps through my stop', 'is this Sharpe meaningful') or by name ('symbol_ref', 'warmup_bars'). Pass a result's exact title to read that chunk again. A chunk already sent in this session is not sent again.

explain

explain_error

Explain an error returned by the manifoldbt engine: what it means, what caused it, and how to fix it. Paste the message verbatim. Use this before changing code in response to an engine error -- these messages name a rule rather than the mistake, and guessing wastes a round trip.

topics

list_topics

START HERE. Returns a complete, runnable backtest script (open a store, strategy, config, fees, run, read the metrics) plus the stateful-band, bracket-exit, higher-timeframe and cross-asset variants -- then the list of rules the engine enforces and of what a fill actually does (which fee a stop pays, where a gapped bracket fills, what a reversal counts as). One call replaces the eight searches every first script otherwise needs.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.manifoldbt.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	94 ms	5 min ago

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ManifoldBT Docs — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can ManifoldBT Docs do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: explain_error, get_capabilities, list_topics, search_docs. 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 ManifoldBT Docs 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 123 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect ManifoldBT Docs?

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 ManifoldBT Docs need an API key?

No. ManifoldBT Docs completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is ManifoldBT Docs?

It answers our handshake in 123 ms on average, which is faster than 89% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.