# Vibe-Trading (slim)

> Vibe-Trading is an open-source, self-hosted finance research agent from HKUDS. It turns plain-English questions into market data pulls, strategy code and backtests, through a CLI, a web UI, chat apps or its MCP server.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.md (~9,650 tokens) · this version ~1,930 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-25 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**B · 62.2/100 · rank #502 of 1210 · #12 in Agent harnesses · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Vibe-Trading runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, ships near-daily fixes with a dated changelog, and keeps order tools out of its MCP server, with live orders gated by an owner-committed mandate and a kill switch. Three advisories, two critical, covered versions before 0.1.7, and the local CLI runs shell commands without asking.

## Facts

- Kind: Agent harness · vendor: HKUDS · category: Agent harnesses · legal entity: not named · provenance 27/100
- Local only (stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)): pypi `vibe-trading-ai`
- Auth: None · pricing: Free · x402: no · licence: MIT
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Where it runs: The owner's machine or server. PyPI package `vibe-trading-ai` for Python 3.11 to 3.13, a Docker Compose setup that binds 127.0.0.1:8899, and an Electron desktop shell with a Windows packaging workflow. No hosted service from the project was found
- Surfaces: Interactive TUI (`vibe-trading`), one-shot `vibe-trading run`, FastAPI server with a React web UI (`vibe-trading serve`), MCP server (`vibe-trading-mcp`), and chat channels including Telegram, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Feishu, WeChat, Teams and email
- What it does: Research in plain English, strategy code generation, backtests across equities, crypto, futures, forex and options with Monte Carlo, bootstrap and walk-forward checks, multi-agent swarm presets, trade-journal analysis, 478 pre-built alphas, scheduled research and exports to TradingView Pine Script, TDX and MetaTrader 5
- Market data: 29 sources with per-market fallback chains, among them Yahoo, yfinance, AKShare, Tencent, Eastmoney, OKX, Binance and CCXT with no key, and Tushare, FMP, Finnhub, Tiingo and Alpha Vantage with a key. QVeris is an optional paid marketplace
- MCP server: 82 tools over stdio (default), Streamable HTTP at `http://127.0.0.1:8900/mcp` or legacy SSE. Research, data, backtest, swarm and read-only broker tools; no order tools. Shell tools need `--enable-shell-tools`
- Acts without asking: In the local interactive CLI, `bash`, `write_file`, `edit_file` and backtest runs of generated code execute when the model calls them. Scheduled jobs and live-trading mandates need an explicit confirmation from the owner
- Live trading controls: Write-enabled live profiles require a mandate the owner commits through the web UI or API, with hard caps on order notional and exposure, a 30-day default lifetime and a kill switch. Optional TAP mode holds Alpaca keys outside the process and waits for human approval of each write
- Broker connectors: Read-only and paper profiles for Alpaca, Binance, Dhan, eToro, Futu, IBKR, KIS, Longbridge, MT5, OKX, Shoonya, Tiger, Trading 212, Upbit, Zerodha and others; write-enabled live profiles for Alpaca, Binance, eToro, Futu, MT5, OKX, Robinhood and Tiger. Profiles are declarations, not verified broker tests, per the README
- Credentials: Model keys in `agent/.env`. Broker connector keys in the OS keyring (macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, Linux Secret Service) with the `keyring` extra; older JSON files under `~/.vibe-trading/` remain a fallback
- Model providers: OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Gemini, Groq, Qwen, Kimi, MiniMax, Z.ai, NVIDIA NIM, GitHub Copilot, a local Claude Code login, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint and Ollama, among others
- Outbound traffic: The chosen model provider, the market-data sources a request uses, web search through ddgs with Sogou and Bing fallbacks, and configured chat channels and brokers. No telemetry code was found
- Advisories: GHSA-v2f8-6655-7grj (CVE-2026-114108, critical), GHSA-jqmf-mx4f-hfr6 (CVE-2026-114107, critical) and GHSA-5rmq-chc7-m22f (CVE-2026-114106, high), published 2 October 2026, affecting 0.1.0 to 0.1.6 and fixed in 0.1.7
- Releases: v0.1.18 on 21 October 2026, v0.1.17 the same day, v0.1.16 on 29 September. 19 PyPI versions since 0.1.0 on 31 March 2026

- Scores: Reliability 63, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 72, Agent ergonomics 67, Security & auth 70, Payments & pricing 60, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 82, Transparency & trust 47 · negative events -4 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read with the local-software lines, as for nanobot and Agent Zero, since the owner runs it. · Schema & documentation, Harness reading of the lines, as for nanobot. · Agent ergonomics, Harness reading, scored on what an agent or script driving it has to supply. · Security & auth, Harness reading used for nanobot and goose. · Payments & pricing, Read with the self-hosted rule. · Maintenance & community, v0.1.18 was published to PyPI on 21 October 2026, four days before this check (30). · Transparency & trust, MIT (30).
- Sources: 26, open questions: 11, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: agent.harness, agent.multi-agent, agent.mcp-client, data.markets, market.crypto, market.news, assistant.messaging, assistant.proactive
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vibe-trading.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/vibe-trading.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading from a page on vibetrading.wiki or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Run 0.1.7 or later. Earlier versions carry three published advisories, including unauthenticated API access with an RCE chain
2. Set `API_AUTH_KEY` before exposing `vibe-trading serve` beyond localhost, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer <key>`
3. Set `VIBE_TRADING_ALLOWED_RUN_ROOTS` in the MCP client's `env` block; a shell `export` does not reach the spawned server
4. Use `vibe-trading run -p "..." --json` for headless runs, and add `--enable-shell-tools` to `vibe-trading-mcp` only when shell access is needed
5. Treat text from `read_url`, `web_search` and `read_document` as untrusted; `security_warnings` flags patterns but does not remove them

## Connect

```bash
pip install vibe-trading-ai   # then: vibe-trading init   # or: docker compose up --build from a clone
```

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