Do I need a brokerage account or API key?

No. stocks_get_quote uses Yahoo Finance directly, so there's no API key, no brokerage login, and no separate account. Install LMCP and ask your AI for a price.

Can it fetch crypto prices too?

Yes. Alongside stocks, ETFs and indexes, you can request crypto pairs like BTC-USD or ETH-USD in the same query, mixed with regular symbols.

Is my watchlist sent to a server?

No. LMCP runs locally on your Mac and only contacts Yahoo Finance to retrieve the quote. Your symbols and prompts are not stored in any LMCP cloud.

Which AI assistants can use it?

Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and Zed connect locally; ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Grok and Perplexity connect through the LMCP Cloud Relay connector.

Get Live Stock Quotes in Your AI on Mac

The stocks_get_quote tool lets your AI assistant pull live stock and crypto prices straight from Yahoo Finance, right inside your chat. You just ask in plain English and the AI returns the current price, daily change, volume and more for any symbol you name. No brokerage login, no API key, no copy-pasting from a finance website. A typical prompt looks like: "What's AAPL trading at right now, and how does it compare to MSFT and BTC-USD today?"

Under the hood it queries Yahoo Finance for one or more symbols at once — stocks like AAPL or MSFT, ETFs, indexes, and crypto pairs like BTC-USD or ETH-USD — and hands the AI structured market data it can summarize, compare or feed into a longer workflow. Because it runs through LMCP, a free native macOS MCP server with 150+ tools, the quote lands in the same conversation where you do everything else. Download LMCP to get started.

Which AI agents work?

LMCP works with every major MCP-capable AI assistant:

Desktop clients — Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code (GitHub Copilot), Windsurf and Zed auto-configure through the local stdio connection. Install LMCP, restart the app, and the stock tool appears automatically.
Web AIs — ChatGPT, Claude.ai (web), Grok and Perplexity connect through the LMCP Cloud Relay connector, so even browser-based assistants can fetch live quotes from your Mac.

Automation

A single quote is useful, but the real power is chaining. Your AI can call stocks_get_quote and then act on the result: draft an email to your accountant with today's portfolio prices, add a reminder to review a position when it crosses a threshold, drop the numbers into a Note or an Excel sheet, or build a daily brief that mixes your calendar with market movers. Ask once — "Get quotes for my watchlist and email me a summary" — and the AI orchestrates the steps end to end.

Context

Because LMCP runs on your Mac, your AI isn't working in a vacuum. It can combine fresh market data with your actual files, contacts, calendar and email. So instead of a generic answer, you get one grounded in your world: the prices you care about, written into the document you're editing, sent to the person you mean, on the schedule you keep.

Productivity

Checking prices normally means tabbing to a finance site, searching each symbol, and reading them back. With stocks_get_quote you ask for five tickers in one sentence and get a clean comparison in seconds — then immediately turn it into an action without leaving the chat. For anyone tracking a watchlist daily, that's minutes saved every check and a workflow that stays in one place.

Privacy & GDPR

Everything runs locally on your Mac. LMCP fetches the quote from Yahoo Finance and returns it to your AI client without routing your data, your watchlist or your prompts through an LMCP server. Nothing is stored in the cloud and there's no account to create for the tool itself. This is privacy by architecture — read more about how LMCP stays GDPR-compliant by architecture.