hpsilab-mcp 0.8.2

Python SDK for the HPSILab quantitative finance API — options analytics, IV surface modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, and AI-driven predictions, with native MCP support.

HPSILab Python REST SDK

hpsilab-mcp is the official Python SDK for the hosted hpsilab.com REST API — quantitative finance and options analytics (IV surface, Monte Carlo simulation, AI predictions, pre-trade risk scans, and more).

Note: This package wraps REST endpoints only. It does not implement MCP transport — see MCP Transport below if you need that.

Requirements

• Python >= 3.9

Installation

pip install hpsilab-mcp

To let the client pay per call when the free quota runs out (see Paying past the free quota):

pip install "hpsilab-mcp[x402]"

Quick Start

from hpsilab_mcp import HpsiMcpClient

client = HpsiMcpClient()

calls = {
    "analyze_stock": client.analyze_stock("NVDA"),
    "get_ai_prediction": client.get_ai_prediction("NVDA"),
    "get_iv_radar": client.get_iv_radar("NVDA"),
    "get_option_pressure": client.get_option_pressure("NVDA"),
    "get_pretrade_risk_scan": client.get_pretrade_risk_scan("NVDA"),
    "get_monte_carlo": client.get_monte_carlo("NVDA"),
    "get_equity_curve": client.get_equity_curve("NVDA"),
    "generate_stock_images": client.generate_stock_images("NVDA"),
    "generate_stock_research_report": client.generate_stock_research_report("NVDA"),
}

print(calls["analyze_stock"])

Authentication

All listed REST SDK methods are callable without an API key. The SDK does not block any method client-side; any access restrictions are enforced server-side.

from hpsilab_mcp import HpsiMcpClient

client = HpsiMcpClient(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://hpsilab.com",
)

result = client.get_ai_prediction("TSLA")
print(result)

Pass an api_key to raise rate limits or unlock account-specific features, where applicable.

Your free API key, picked up automatically

Anonymous callers share one daily pool across all tools. On your first successful call the API issues a free key and this client adopts it automatically — every later request carries it, which raises the daily allowance substantially. Nothing to configure.

client = HpsiMcpClient()
client.get_monte_carlo("NVDA")
client.anon_key          # 'hpsi_anon_...' — issued and now in use

Persist it and hand it back to keep the larger allowance in a later process. The key is not tied to your IP address, which matters because cloud egress addresses drift:

client = HpsiMcpClient(anon_key=saved_key)

If you hit the anonymous ceiling before a key was in play, the 429 carries one; the client adopts it and retries the call once, so you get data rather than an exception. A client constructed with a real api_key is unaffected — its credential is never displaced and anon_key stays None.

Binding an email to the key unlocks the full Free plan: https://hpsilab.com/register

Registering your own account (for agents)

An agent can complete the whole anonymous → account transition itself. No password, no wallet, no web form:

client = HpsiMcpClient()
client.register_account("[e-mail]")
client.get_monte_carlo("NVDA")     # now metered as your account

The client switches to the returned account key automatically, and the account is also bound to this caller server-side — so a process that cannot change its own Authorization header (an MCP connection, for instance) is still recognised on later calls.

The account starts unverified, which keeps the anonymous daily allowance until the emailed link is confirmed; confirming it unlocks the full Free plan. Use a real address — one nobody reads leaves the account at the anonymous allowance forever.

Calling again returns the same account and a fresh key rather than creating a second one, so it is safe to call when you have lost your key. An address that already belongs to a different account raises HpsiMcpAPIError with status 409, leaving your current identity untouched.

Pass adopt_key=False to get the response without switching this client over — useful when you mean to hand the key to another process.

Paying past the free quota

Once the pool is spent — or when calling a Pro tool, which has no anonymous allowance — the API answers HTTP 402 with an x402 payment challenge instead of refusing outright, so an agent can pay for the call in USDC on Base and keep working.

You do not need a wallet. Every challenge also names a card checkout URL (https://hpsilab.com/pricing?anon=...) — relay it to a human if you have no USDC. That rail is register-then-pay, and register_account() above lets you do the registration half unattended.

Before that point, an exhausted caller is served the last known-good result for the same request rather than an empty error — a 200 carrying X-HPSILAB-Degraded: true and X-HPSILAB-Data-Age. Treat those figures as indicative, not current.

Without a wallet the SDK raises HpsiMcpPaymentError with the challenge attached, and you can pay it however you like:

from hpsilab_mcp import HpsiMcpClient, HpsiMcpPaymentError

try:
    client.get_monte_carlo("NVDA")
except HpsiMcpPaymentError as exc:
    print(exc.tool, exc.price)   # get_monte_carlo $0.10
    print(exc.accepts)           # scheme / network / asset / amount / payTo

With a wallet, the client signs the challenge and repeats the request for you:

from hpsilab_mcp import HpsiMcpClient, X402Wallet

client = HpsiMcpClient(wallet=X402Wallet(PRIVATE_KEY, max_price_usdc=0.20))
client.get_monte_carlo("NVDA")   # free while quota lasts, paid after that

X402Wallet() reads HPSILAB_X402_PRIVATE_KEY when no key is passed, and a client with no wallet= picks that variable up automatically. Three things hold regardless of how it is configured:

• Nothing is paid pre-emptively — the free call is always attempted first.
• Each call is retried once after paying; a server that keeps answering 402 cannot drain the wallet.
• max_price_usdc (default $1.00) caps a single call. A challenge asking for more is refused, not signed.

Signing happens locally; the private key never leaves your process.

Tool	Price per call
analyze_stock, get_pretrade_risk_scan	$0.15
get_monte_carlo	$0.10
get_iv_radar, get_option_pressure, get_ai_prediction, get_equity_curve	$0.05
generate_stock_research_report	$0.35

Version

import hpsilab_mcp

print(hpsilab_mcp.__version__)

Request tracking

Every request carries X-HPSILAB-Source: sdk, X-HPSILAB-Client: python-sdk, X-HPSILAB-Version: <installed version>, X-HPSILAB-Tool: <method name> (e.g. get_ai_prediction), and User-Agent: hpsilab-python-sdk/<version>. These are merged into any custom headers you pass to HpsiMcpClient(...) without overriding Authorization or other business headers.

REST SDK Methods

Method	Endpoint
analyze_stock(symbol)	GET /api/analyze_stock/{symbol}
get_ai_prediction(symbol)	GET /api/ai_prediction/{symbol}
get_iv_radar(symbol)	GET /api/iv_batch?symbols={symbol}
get_option_pressure(symbol)	GET /api/option_pressure/{symbol}
get_pretrade_risk_scan(symbol)	GET /api/pretrade-risk-scan?symbol={symbol}
get_monte_carlo(symbol)	GET /api/monte_carlo/{symbol}
get_equity_curve(symbol)	GET /api/equity_curve/{symbol}
get_equity_curves(symbol)	Deprecated alias of get_equity_curve — warns on use
generate_stock_images(symbol)	POST /api/stock_report/{symbol}/images
generate_stock_research_report(symbol)	POST /api/stock_report/{symbol}/research_report

The SDK itself does not publish MCP tool annotations; those are declared by the MCP server in its tools/list response. The GET analysis methods are read-only. The two generate_* methods create or refresh hosted artifacts and may consume quota or trigger payment; repeated calls are not guaranteed to be idempotent.

Capability Matrix

Capability	REST API	MCP
analyze_stock	Yes	Yes
get_ai_prediction	Yes	Yes
get_iv_radar	Yes	Yes
get_option_pressure	Yes	Yes
get_pretrade_risk_scan	Yes	Yes
get_monte_carlo	Yes	Yes
get_equity_curve	Yes	Yes
generate_stock_images	Yes	Yes
generate_stock_research_report	Yes	Yes

MCP Transport

All official MCP tools have REST SDK coverage. Use an MCP-compatible client (e.g. Claude, or any MCP host) when you specifically need MCP transport, tool discovery, or assistant-native tool calls — see the MCP server docs for setup.

Scope

This package is a REST API wrapper only. It does not implement MCP transport, SSE, streaming, tool discovery, Claude integration, or proprietary finance logic.

These tools return research-oriented information. They are not financial advice.

Links

• Homepage
• Developer Portal
• Repository

License

MIT. See LICENSE.