# Option Desk

> Option Desk, an MCP server by avidquant.com, listed from the official MCP registry. Indexed, not reviewed: facts and our own checks, no score or ranking. Option analytics over the SYNTH sample or a permitted chain: Greeks, positioning, payoffs, plots.

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- Updated: 2026-10-05

# Option Desk

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- Kind: MCP server, by avidquant.com (https://optiondesk.avidquant.com)
- Listed because: It's published in the registry under avidquant.com, a namespace the registry only gives to whoever proves they control that domain.
- What the official MCP registry says: Option analytics over the SYNTH sample or a permitted chain: Greeks, positioning, payoffs, plots.

## Facts

- MCP registry: `com.avidquant/optiondesk` 0.3.0
- Endpoint: https://optiondesk.avidquant.com/mcp (streamable HTTP)
- Source: https://github.com/Iman/agent-driven-options-desk-and-skills
- Website: https://optiondesk.avidquant.com
- GitHub stars: 5
- Registry entry updated: 2026-09-11

## Tools

- Tools it lists (13, about 7,656 tokens of context, `tools/list` without credentials over MCP 2025-11-25, checked 2026-10-04 22:22 UTC):
  - `option_desk_status` (read-only): Check the Option Desk data mode, source, refresh time, and public licence gate before requesting figures. No live feed or hosted backtest tool exists, even…
  - `option_snapshot_schema` (read-only): Return the accepted CSV and JSON option-chain fields, safe repair rules, size limits, data-rights confirmation, and retention policy.
  - `option_chain_snapshot` (read-only): Summarize SYNTH or analyze a user-supplied option chain for private analysis. This service never fetches market data.
  - `option_positioning` (read-only): Return gamma walls, gamma flip, and max pain from SYNTH or a user-supplied chain. Dealer signs are an assumption, not observed positions.
  - `option_plots` (read-only): Render opaque PNG plots in the conversation. The SYNTH sample offers the market plot (dealer gamma exposure, open interest, volume and the smile by strike),…
  - `option_strategy_plot` (read-only): Show an option-strategy payoff as an opaque PNG in the conversation. Any structure in the engine playbook can be built on the SYNTH sample chain. A market…
  - `option_report_plots` (read-only): Return the market map, Greek ladder, strategy comparison and up to three requested payoff charts in ONE widget. Prefer this tool for multi-chart reports…
  - `option_private_dashboard` (writes): Create a private interactive dashboard from user-supplied data. The bearer URL and all derived artifacts expire after one hour.
  - `option_validate_snapshot` (read-only): Validate and safely normalize a user-supplied option-chain snapshot. Return corrections and a summary. Delete all temporary files before the response.
  - `option_import_snapshot` (writes): Import user-supplied option-chain data into a bearer-private interactive dashboard. Delete the artifacts after one hour.
  - `option_plots_from_snapshot` (read-only): Create opaque market and Greek PNG images from a user-supplied snapshot. Stamp source, capture time, expiry, and warnings on every image. Delete temporary…
  - `option_strategy_from_snapshot` (read-only): Build one option structure from a user-supplied chain and return its opaque payoff PNG with permanent source and risk warnings.
  - `option_delete_snapshot` (writes): Delete one short-lived imported dashboard before its automatic one-hour expiry.
- How its tools read to an agent (0 errors, 11 warnings, 1 note, about 7,656 tokens; rules at https://www.anchorterminal.com/check.md; not part of the score):
  - warn TC11 option_chain_snapshot: none of its 9 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 option_delete_snapshot: its one parameter, token, has no description
  - warn TC11 option_import_snapshot: none of its 10 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 option_plots: none of its 10 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 option_plots_from_snapshot: none of its 9 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 option_positioning: none of its 9 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 option_private_dashboard: none of its 10 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 option_report_plots: none of its 10 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 option_strategy_from_snapshot: none of its 10 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 option_strategy_plot: none of its 10 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 option_validate_snapshot: none of its 9 parameters has a description
  - note TC29 server: about 1,205 tokens (16% of the definitions) are titles that repeat property or function names

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