fintel-data

fintel-data is a skill for Claude Code from himself65/finance-skills. It costs 157 tokens per session (2,459 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only connection to Fintel, a market-data service covering short selling, stock borrowing, institutional ownership, insider trades, and related data. It uses Fintel’s API or MCP server and requires a Fintel API key.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve short interest, borrow fees and availability, daily short volume, fails-to-deliver, 13F institutional ownership, and insider transactions.
Why use it?
It avoids manually collecting these datasets and helps keep requests limited to reading data rather than changing lists, alerts, or team settings.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: dynamic context !`command`. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the finance-data-providers plugin — 6 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to retrieve short interest, borrow fees and availability, daily short volume, fails-to-deliver, 13F institutional ownership, and insider transactions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/himself65/finance-skills/fintel-data
About the project

Finance Skills is a collection of agent skills for financial analysis and trading, covering activities such as company valuation, earnings research, market analysis, and options calculations. It is for users who want coding agents to perform structured finance workflows, and the catalogue contains its skills, plugins, instructions, and MCP integration.

himself65/finance-skills · 3,435 stars · on GitHub · skills.himself65.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add himself65/finance-skills --skill fintel-data
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/himself65/finance-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install finance-data-providers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 157 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,459 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 9 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 50
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 50
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Supply Chain · line 113
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 5
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 33
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 62
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 79
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 81
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 121
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00157 $0.02459
Opus 5.5 $0.00063 $0.00984
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00492
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00246

Measured 2d ago against content hash dcb856e10a2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fintel-data scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| **REST** | `https://api.fintel.io/v1/*` | `X-API-KEY` header | Default — curl from any CLI agent |
plugins/data-providers/skills/fintel-data/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fintel Data Skill

If your host has not already executed the shell probes below (for example, in Codex), run the commands inside the ! wrappers with its shell tool before choosing a setup path. Use the actual output; if shell access is unavailable, report that limitation.

Fintel (fintel.io) is an institutional-grade market intelligence platform. Its strongest datasets are the ones most other providers lack: short interest, borrow rates, short volume, fails-to-deliver, 13F institutional ownership, and insider transactions.

Fintel exposes two surfaces backed by the same data contract:

Surface Endpoint Auth Best for
REST https://api.fintel.io/v1/* X-API-KEY header Default — curl from any CLI agent
MCP https://mcp.fintel.io/mcp X-API-KEY header MCP-native clients, tool auto-discovery

Both require a Fintel API key. This skill is read-only — only call GET endpoints. The API also exposes write endpoints (create/delete stock lists, alert subscriptions, teams); do not call them.


Step 1: Resolve FINTEL_API_KEY

The skill resolves FINTEL_API_KEY in this order:

  1. FINTEL_API_KEY environment variable
  2. FINTEL_API_KEY in .env in the current directory
  3. FINTEL_API_KEY in .env at the git repo root (so a worktree inherits the key from the main checkout)
!`if [ -n "$FINTEL_API_KEY" ]; then echo "KEY_FROM_ENV_VAR"; elif [ -f .env ] && grep -qE "^FINTEL_API_KEY=" .env; then echo "KEY_FROM_LOCAL_DOTENV:$(pwd)/.env"; else GIT_COMMON=$(git rev-parse --path-format=absolute --git-common-dir 2>/dev/null); if [ -n "$GIT_COMMON" ]; then ROOT=$(dirname "$GIT_COMMON"); if [ -f "$ROOT/.env" ] && grep -qE "^FINTEL_API_KEY=" "$ROOT/.env"; then echo "KEY_FROM_ROOT_DOTENV:$ROOT/.env"; else echo "KEY_NOT_SET"; fi; else echo "KEY_NOT_SET"; fi; fi`

Then act on the result:

  • KEY_FROM_ENV_VAR — use $FINTEL_API_KEY directly in curl calls.
  • KEY_FROM_LOCAL_DOTENV:<path> / KEY_FROM_ROOT_DOTENV:<path> — load once before calling:
    export FINTEL_API_KEY=$(grep -E "^FINTEL_API_KEY=" <path> | head -1 | cut -d= -f2- | sed 's/^["'\'']//;s/["'\'']$//')
    
  • KEY_NOT_SET — ask the user for their key. Keys come with a Fintel API plan (fintel.io, docs at api.fintel.io/docs). They can either export FINTEL_API_KEY="..." or add FINTEL_API_KEY=... to .env at the repo root (preferred for worktrees).

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

  1. 2d ago Changed · +2 lines dcb856e10a2d
  2. 26d ago Changed · -6 lines · -77 tokens per session aca70480b2c4
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 172 lines · 234 tokens per session scan A e684556ed2d6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fintel-data is a skill published in the GitHub repository himself65/finance-skills (3,435 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 157 tokens to every session and 2,459 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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