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Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server


Ever wanted to check on your portfolio and trade some stocks directly with Claude? Well you’re in luck. Claude and MCP In November 2024, Anthropic open-sourced MCP (Model-Context Protocol) to standardize the way AI assistants interact with other tools.

A few days ago, they added “Integrations” to Claude, allowing everyone to use MCP tools directly from the web chat interface. Unfortunately, they labeled it as beta and only made it available on their more expensive Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, launching with a limited number of partners. I was able to feed Gemini all of the prompts and docs that MCP’s own “Building with LLMs” documentation suggested and it wrote a working version on the first try, while Claude struggled with context limits and a number of other issues.

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