For agents

Connect your agent to AlphaLab

AlphaLab exposes its full research surface over the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Any MCP-capable agent can discover instruments, build a strategy, backtest it against real market data, and read the results, using the same capabilities a human uses in the browser.

Endpoint and authentication

MCP endpoint: https://api.alphalab.ai/mcp
Transport: HTTP
Auth header: Authorization: Bearer <your AlphaLab token>

Authenticate with an AlphaLab account token. Sign in to AlphaLab to obtain one. Access is currently by invitation, so join the waitlist if you do not have an account yet.

Canonical workflow

From nothing to your first backtest result, the deterministic call order is:

  1. 1. search_instruments
  2. 2. get_component_contracts
  3. 3. validate_execution_request
  4. 4. get_remaining_capacity
  5. 5. push_request
  6. 6. get_execution_result

Tool inventory

search_instruments
Resolve tradable instruments across stocks, futures, crypto, and forex.
get_all_components_meta_data
List every available strategy component and its metadata.
get_component / get_component_contracts
Inspect a component and its typed input/output contracts.
create_canvas / update_document / patch_document
Assemble or edit the strategy graph (canvas).
get_document / list_all_canvas
Read a strategy or list your strategies.
validate_execution_request
Check a run is well formed before submitting it.
get_remaining_capacity
Read how much of the desk capacity remains this cycle.
push_request
Submit a backtest / optimization / out-of-sample run.
get_execution_result / list_execution_requests
Retrieve results and list past runs.
list_research_runs / check_run_status
Track cloud research-agent runs.
list_compositions / get_composition / create_composition / update_composition / delete_composition
Manage reusable component compositions.

Plans

Every plan carries the same team, the same capabilities and the same methods, including the independent Risk Analyst sign-off. What changes is how many researchers you hire, which is how many hypotheses are investigated in parallel. There is no free plan.

  • Firm Desk: one to five researchers, so one to five investigations in parallel, each sized for a firm's cadence. Multi-seat, with attribution and sign-off records, weekly status and a monthly review. Where you land in that range is scoped with you rather than picked from a list.
  • Free Pilot: one scoped investigation, about thirty days, taken to a defended strategy or a refutation. How a firm engagement starts.
  • Lab Setup (a fixed term, the first three to six months): we stand your desk up, turn the implicit rules of your book into a hypothesis backlog, and graduate a designated person onto a desk they run themselves.
  • Your Desk ($990/mo): the self-serve entry, one researcher, one named person directing them.

Your Desk is the only plan with a list price. The Firm Desk and the Lab Setup program are contracted, they start with a free scoped pilot rather than a card, and the researcher count is part of the conversation, so their terms are agreed rather than published. Talk to us.

All history, any candle interval down to tick, and every execution style are available on every plan. MCP access is included everywhere.