Finlight MCP for AI Agents

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Finlight MCP or direct API to search financial news, retrieve articles by URL, list source metadata, and monitor market keywords through natural language.

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Finlight is a financial news API that indexes and serves market and company articles. Get timely article retrieval, full-text access, and rich source metadata.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Finlight action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Get Article by Link

Retrieve one Finlight-indexed article by its original URL.

List Sources

List all news source domains visible to the connected Finlight account, including default-source status, origin country, and supported languages.

Search Articles

Search Finlight's indexed financial news using text, market, source, geography, category, language, and date filters.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Finlight MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/openai @ai-sdk/mcp
Install the Composio SDK for Python or TypeScript
2

Initialize Client and Create Tool Router Session

typescript
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: 'your-api-key' });
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
console.log(`Tool Router session created: ${session.mcp.url}`);
Import and initialize the Composio client, then create a Tool Router session for Finlight
3

Connect to AI Agent

typescript
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
import { experimental_createMCPClient as createMCPClient } from '@ai-sdk/mcp';
import { generateText } from 'ai';

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: {
    type: 'http',
    url: session.mcp.url,
    headers: {
      'x-api-key': 'your-composio-api-key',
    },
  },
});

const tools = await client.tools();
const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai('gpt-4o'),
  tools,
  messages: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: "List recent Finlight articles about Apple's Q2 earnings and summarize their market impact"
  }],
  maxSteps: 5,
});

console.log(`Agent: ${text}`);
Use the MCP server with your AI agent (Anthropic Claude or Mastra)
SETUP GUIDE

Connect Finlight API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/openai
Install the Composio SDK
2

Initialize Composio and Create Tool Router Session

typescript
import OpenAI from 'openai';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from '@composio/openai';

const composio = new Composio({
  provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider(),
});
const openai = new OpenAI({});
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
Import and initialize Composio client, then create a Tool Router session
3

Execute Finlight Tools via Tool Router with Your Agent

typescript
const tools = session.tools;
const response = await openai.responses.create({
  model: 'gpt-4.1',
  tools: tools,
  input: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: "Search Finlight for articles about 'inflation outlook' in the past 7 days and summarize key findings"
  }],
});
const result = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(
  'your-user-id',
  response.output
);
console.log(result);
Get tools from Tool Router session and execute Finlight actions with your Agent

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Finlight Integration

  • Supports both Finlight MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable tool execution
  • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Finlight data

Managed Auth

  • Built-in API key handling with secure storage and automatic rotation where supported
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Finlight access
  • Per user and per environment credentials instead of hard-coded keys

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Finlight
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Finlight resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance
FRAMEWORKS

Use Finlight with any AI Agent Framework

Choose a Framework you want to connect Finlight with

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Finlight requires you to configure your own API key credentials. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and API request handling for you.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Composio is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant with all data encrypted in transit and at rest. Learn more.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

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