TrueSource

truesource-mcp

First-hand market signals your AI agent can actually cite.

An MCP server wrapping TrueSource — a crawler and AI-retrieval stack that watches things which have already happened and carry a verifiable source: exchange filings, government procurement awards, R&D expansion moves, northbound holdings, and official macro releases.

It does not summarise analyst reports and it does not emit buy/sell calls. Every signal comes with a date and where it came from.

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Tools

Tool	What it does	Speed
truesource_procurement(days, limit)	Recent government procurement awards — who is actually winning contracts	fast
truesource_macro(days)	Macro releases from the statistics bureau, customs and industry bodies	fast
truesource_daily_brief(symbols)	Signal digest + alert level for a batch of tickers (last 3 days)	fast
truesource_alert_signals(symbols)	Only signals that crossed an alert threshold (last 26 hours)	fast
truesource_report(symbol)	Full research report — 35 pre-built AI-compute names only	fast
truesource_scout(symbol, name)	Live full collection for any A-share	30–60s

Procurement is the most distinctive one: a contract award is a fact that has already occurred, which is a harder input than a forecast.

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Quick start

You need an API key first — see below.

Claude Desktop / Cursor

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "truesource": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["truesource-mcp"],
      "env": { "HUNTER_API_KEY": "hunt_tools_xxx" }
    }
  }
}

Command line

# no install needed
HUNTER_API_KEY=hunt_tools_xxx uvx truesource-mcp

# or install it
pip install truesource-mcp
HUNTER_API_KEY=hunt_tools_xxx truesource-mcp

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API key

This server has no keyless mode, and cannot have one — the upstream gateway returns 403 without a key.

The reason is cost: truesource_scout runs real crawlers plus a Gemini search on every call, so each invocation spends money on third-party APIs. Anonymous access would be trivially expensive to abuse and impossible to attribute.

Get one at https://hunter.agentpit.io/dev/api-keys — sign in, click 申请 API Key, copy the hunt_tools_… key (shown once), set it as HUNTER_API_KEY.

If the key is missing, this server does not return sample data or a fake success. It returns an error that tells you exactly where to get a key.

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Environment variables

Variable	Default	Notes
HUNTER_API_KEY	—	Required. hunt_tools_ key
TRUESOURCE_URL	https://hunter.agentpit.io/api/saas/truesource	Point at your own deployment if you self-host
TRUESOURCE_TIMEOUT	20	Seconds. scout gets its own 120s floor regardless
TRUESOURCE_MAX_ITEMS	40	Cap on items per response
TRUESOURCE_MCP_TRANSPORT	stdio	stdio | streamable-http | sse
TRUESOURCE_MCP_HOST / _PORT	0.0.0.0 / 8933	Remote transports only

stdio is what Claude Desktop, Cursor and uvx use. Run a remote transport only if one long-running server should serve several clients — and prefer streamable-http, since the MCP spec marks SSE as deprecated.

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Three things that will bite you otherwise

grey is not green. In daily_brief, an alert level of grey means no signal was collected for this ticker in the last 3 days. That may mean the stock was quiet, or it may mean coverage missed it. It does not mean "safe".

An empty result is a conclusion, not a failure. alert_signals returning nothing means these tickers crossed no threshold in the last 26 hours. That is information. This server never dresses an empty result up as an error, and never fills it with placeholder rows.

Truncation is always disclosed. Responses are capped at TRUESOURCE_MAX_ITEMS (40 by default). When that bites, the payload carries truncated: true, the real total, and a note not to draw conclusions from the visible slice. Raise the cap or narrow the date range instead.

truesource_report also will not silently fall back to scout when a ticker isn't one of the 35 pre-built names. Scout costs 30–60 seconds and real money — that choice should be made deliberately, not happen behind your back.

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Errors you might hit

Error	Meaning
missing_api_key	HUNTER_API_KEY not set — see API key
invalid_api_key (401)	Key wrong, incomplete or revoked
forbidden (403)	Key valid but lacks access to this endpoint
not_found (404)	For report: ticker isn't a pre-built name — use truesource_scout
timeout	scout genuinely takes 30–60s; raise TRUESOURCE_TIMEOUT
upstream_down (502/503)	Crawler service is down; retry later

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Related

• kronos-mcp — K-line forecasting for A-shares, US and HK equities
• akshare-mcp — lets a model explore AKShare's 1000+ China market data functions on its own
• hunter-community — the open-source stack these come from

Apache-2.0.