How to connect Nasdaq to Claude Cowork

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks. This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Nasdaq account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to get real-time quote for AAPL stock, show analyst ratings for TSLA this week, retrieve dividend history for MSFT, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Nasdaq account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to get real-time quote for AAPL stock, show analyst ratings for TSLA this week, retrieve dividend history for MSFT, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Nasdaq to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Nasdaq account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Nasdaq or give it any Nasdaq-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Get real-time quote for AAPL stock"
  • "Show analyst ratings for TSLA this week"
  • "Retrieve dividend history for MSFT"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Nasdaq account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Nasdaq through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the Nasdaq MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Nasdaq MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Nasdaq Data Link account. It provides structured and secure access to real-time financial data, analyst ratings, dividend histories, and more, so your agent can fetch live quotes, analyze trends, retrieve historical performance, and power your financial insights automatically.

  • Real-time stock quote retrieval: Instantly get up-to-the-second price quotes and market data for any supported symbol, enabling timely investment decisions and market monitoring.
  • Analyst ratings and target price lookup: Access the latest analyst recommendations and price targets for specific symbols to inform your trading strategies and research.
  • Historical dividend tracking: Retrieve detailed dividend history for any stock, supporting portfolio income analysis and historical return calculations.
  • Table metadata and structure exploration: Let your agent fetch and understand datatable schemas, making it easy to build data-driven applications with accurate column definitions and sample data.
  • Targeted data row and table queries: Pull specific rows or tables updated on certain dates, supporting custom research, analysis, and reporting workflows.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Get Analyst Ratings and Target Prices

Retrieves comprehensive analyst ratings and target price data for a stock symbol from Zacks Investment Research.

Get Datatable Bulk Export

Tool to request a bulk export of a NASDAQ Data Link datatable.

Get Datatable Metadata

Tool to retrieve metadata for a NASDAQ Data Link datatable.

Get Dividend Fundamentals

Retrieves quarterly dividend-related fundamentals for a specific stock ticker from SHARADAR SF1 database.

Get Stock Price Data

Retrieves end-of-day historical stock price data for a specific ticker symbol from the QUOTEMEDIA database.

Get Table Row By Filter

Retrieves rows from a NASDAQ Data Link datatable by filtering on a specified column and value.

Get Datatables Updated on Specific Date

Retrieves Nasdaq Data Link datatables (databases) that were last updated on a specific date.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Nasdaq MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Nasdaq tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Nasdaq and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Nasdaq tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Nasdaq scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Nasdaq data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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