Canary MCP

A local risk desk for your Interactive Brokers account. Canary turns one local IB Gateway or TWS session into a daily brief, current portfolio and market evidence, and a broker-confirmed review of what past position changes delivered. Use the same daemon from an MCP host, the shell, or a paired phone. The standard binary and every MCP tool are structurally read-only: they contain no broker-order preview or execution…

People who work with finance, ibkr and interactive brokers and want it reachable from Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in Go.

VERIFIED ACTIVE

LAST COMMIT 2026-09-17 · ★ 8 · #233 OF 318 MAINTAINED FINANCE · VERIFIED 2026-09-18

MIT · Go servers · how we verify → /methodology

01 · Install Canary MCP

Claude Desktop

Settings → Extensions → Install, then select the https://github.com/osauer/canary/releases/download/v3.7.0/canary-v3.7.0.mcpb .mcpb bundle

02 · Evidence

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

runs as Claude Desktop extension (.mcpb bundle)

license MIT - declared in the repository

registry namespace io.github.osauer is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner

03 · What Canary MCP can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

Latest releases

v3.7.0 · 2026-09-17

The data flows out. Orders don't go in. · Canary is a read-only interface to your Interactive Brokers account, reachable from a Go library, a shell CLI, a stdio MCP server (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, Zed), and a…

v3.6.0 · 2026-09-12

The data flows out. Orders don't go in. · Canary is a read-only interface to your Interactive Brokers account, reachable from a Go library, a shell CLI, a stdio MCP server (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, Zed), and a…

v3.5.0 · 2026-09-12

The data flows out. Orders don't go in. · Canary is a read-only interface to your Interactive Brokers account, reachable from a Go library, a shell CLI, a stdio MCP server (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, Zed), and a…

04 · Who maintains Canary MCP

Canary MCP is maintained by osauer. We track 2 MCP servers from osauer - 1 actively maintained, 16 combined GitHub stars, oldest repo from May 2026. Full record: all servers from osauer.

  1. canary ibkr MCP Local IBKR MCP server for agentic trading desks: market data, portfolio context, risk checks. ★ 8

05 · Facts

repository
github.com/osauer/canary
website
https://osauer.dev/canary/
category
finance - ranked #233 of 318 actively-maintained finance servers as of 2026-09-18.
release cadence
10+ releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-09-17)
registry
io.github.osauer/canary (active, first published 2026-07-29 · 28 versions)
packages
mcpb:https://github.com/osauer/canary/releases/download/v3.7.0/canary-v3.7.0.mcpb

06 · Canary MCP FAQ

What is Canary MCP?

A local risk desk for your Interactive Brokers account. Canary turns one local IB Gateway or TWS session into a daily brief, current portfolio and market evidence, and a broker-confirmed review of what past position changes delivered. Use the same daemon from an MCP host, the shell, or a paired phone. The standard binary and every MCP tool are structurally read-only: they contain no broker-order preview or execution…

Is Canary MCP still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-09-18, its last commit was 2026-09-17 and it shipped 10+ releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

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