What is kite-mcp CLAUDE.md?

Project instructions for kite-mcp, a local MCP server that lets an AI assistant work with Zerodha Kite, an Indian stock-trading service. MCP is a standard way for an AI assistant to connect to external tools.

Understanding, maintaining, or extending the kite-mcp codebase and its connections to Zerodha and related trading services.

They give an agent the project’s architecture, files, authentication approach, and place in a wider trading setup.

kite-mcp CLAUDE.md — Instructions file for Claude Code by aranjan: Project instructions for kite-mcp, a local MCP server that…

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods

npx agentmods add instructions/aranjan/kite-mcp/claude-md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aranjan/kite-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 2,140 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,140 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan D 2 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.02140	$0.02140
Opus 5	$0.01070	$0.01070
Sonnet 5	$0.00428	$0.00428
Haiku 4.5	$0.00214	$0.00214

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9c89680df2c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

kite-mcp CLAUDE.md scanned grade D with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- PyPI recovery codes: ~/.config/pypi/recovery_codes.txt (chmod 600)

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

cd ~/kite-mcp && rm -rf dist/ && ./venv/bin/python -m build

CLAUDE.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md - Project Context for kite-mcp

Project Overview

kite-mcp is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for Zerodha Kite Connect that enables trading Indian stocks through natural conversation with any MCP-compatible AI assistant.

Author: Amit Ranjan (aranjan)
Repository: https://github.com/aranjan/kite-mcp
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/kite-mcp/
Smithery: https://smithery.ai/server/@aranjan/kite-mcp
License: MIT

Architecture

User (natural language) -> AI Assistant -> kite-mcp (MCP/stdio) -> Zerodha Kite API

Built with FastMCP (from the mcp Python package)
Runs as a stdio server (local, not hosted)
Auto-authenticates using TOTP via pyotp
Token cached at ~/.zerodha_kite_token.json (expires daily)

Broader System Context

kite-mcp is part of a multi-broker trading system:

Claude Desktop
  ├── kite-mcp          → Zerodha portfolio + orders (auto TOTP)
  ├── zerodha-official   → Free quotes for any NSE stock (browser OAuth)
  ├── icici-mcp         → ICICI Direct portfolio + orders (Playwright TOTP)
  ├── finance MCP       → Technical analysis (RSI, MACD, Bollinger, MA)
  └── Slack MCP         → Post to #kite-portfolio

Related projects:

~/icici-mcp/ — ICICI Direct MCP server (separate repo)
~/finance-mcp-wrapper.py — Async wrapper for finance-mcp-server
~/trading-agent-prompt.md — Scheduled task prompts for daily/EOD/weekly reports
~/test_claude_config.py — Validates Claude Desktop config
~/improvements-26-march.md — Planned improvements backlog

Project Structure

~/kite-mcp/
  src/kite_mcp/
    __init__.py       # Version string
    auth.py           # Shared auth: load_credentials, automated_login, get_authenticated_kite
    server.py         # FastMCP server with 14 @mcp.tool() decorated tools
    cli.py            # CLI entry points: login(), status()
  tests/
    test_auth.py      # 7 tests for auth module
    test_server.py    # 3 tests for tool registration
    test_cli.py       # 2 tests for CLI
  pyproject.toml      # Hatchling build, entry points: kite-mcp, kite-mcp-login
  smithery.yaml       # Smithery directory config
  CHANGELOG.md
  CONTRIBUTING.md
  SECURITY.md
  LICENSE             # MIT
  README.md
  logo.svg
  promotion-activities.md  # Marketing plan with draft posts
  .github/
    workflows/ci.yml  # CI: ruff lint, syntax, imports, tests across Python 3.10-3.13
    ISSUE_TEMPLATE/   # Bug report + feature request templates
    pull_request_template.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

5d ago First seen · 205 lines · 2,140 tokens per session scan D 9c89680df2c7

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kite-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository aranjan/kite-mcp (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,140 tokens to every session, about $0.0107 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (asks for root, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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kite-mcp CLAUDE.md

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade D, and why

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

How it starts

CLAUDE.md - Project Context for kite-mcp

Project Overview

Architecture

Broader System Context

Project Structure

What this file has done since we first saw it

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