How many tools does the Robinhood MCP server expose?

53 tools as of August 2026, spanning nine categories: account and portfolio (6), equity market data (8), indexes (3), earnings (2), equity orders (4), options market data (6), option orders (6), watchlists (12), and server-side scans (6). The surface is Robinhood's and changes without notice — this reference is independently observed from live use, not an official document.

Can an AI agent place real orders through the Robinhood MCP?

Yes — place_equity_order and place_option_order place real orders on accounts enabled for agentic trading. The surface also ships review_equity_order and review_option_order, which validate an order and preview costs without placing it. A well-governed agent uses the review tool and stops for human confirmation; guardrails like an account lockdown and order caps should be in place before the placing tools are ever callable.

Is the Robinhood MCP market data real-time?

Quotes are real-time, but historicals serve completed bars only, and in our measurements the 5-minute feed ran about five bars behind real time — enough that 28% of 25-minute momentum reads flipped sign versus the consolidated tape. Hourly final-bar closes also diverged up to about 3.4% from SIP values. For decisions that need the freshest bars, reconstruct the forming hour from 5-minute bars and treat the last bar as provisional.

Why do my Robinhood MCP scan filters seem ignored?

The scanner silently drops filter parameters it does not support rather than erroring. Always call get_scanner_filter_specs first to learn the supported fields, and read the filters_applied field back from run_scan results — if your filter is not listed there, it was dropped and your results are wider than you think.

Does the Robinhood MCP rate-limit requests?

Yes — burst request patterns draw HTTP 429 responses. Pace calls sequentially rather than in parallel, back off when throttled, and batch where the tool allows it (quotes and tradability accept multiple symbols per call; technical indicators are one symbol per call).

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REFERENCE

Robinhood MCP tools: the complete reference

All 53 tools on the Robinhood MCP surface, categorized — with the behavioral gotchas we measured running an agent against it daily, and a machine-readable JSON your agent can load directly.

Reference · 9 min read · observed August 6, 2026

What this is (and isn't)

Robinhood's MCP server is what lets an AI agent — Claude, most commonly — read and act on a brokerage account with plain tool calls. There is no official public reference for the tool surface, so we wrote the one we wished existed: every tool we observe on the live connector, categorized, with a one-line purpose and, where we've measured one, the gotcha. It is independently observed, not official; Robinhood changes the surface without notice. Setup itself is covered in our Robinhood agentic setup guide, and the error-by-error debugging table lives in the troubleshooting guide.

The count as of August 6, 2026: 53 tools in nine categories. Read tools dominate — 39 of 53 never mutate anything. The 14 that do (orders, watchlist edits, scan edits) are where your guardrails live.

Account & portfolio (6)

Tool	What it does	Gotcha
`get_accounts`	List brokerage accounts with type and number	Never default an account from this — order tools require an explicit account number, and an agent should be locked to exactly one
`get_portfolio`	Portfolio value + buying-power snapshot	Accounts on cash-sweep programs can read $0 here; derive value from positions instead
`get_equity_positions`	Open positions with quantity and average cost
`get_equity_tax_lots`	Per-lot cost basis for a position
`get_pnl_trade_history`	Trade-by-trade realized P&L feed	The broker's P&L feed is ground truth — internal ledgers drift from it
`get_realized_pnl`	Realized gain/loss summary

Equity market data (8)

Tool	What it does	Gotcha
`search`	Resolve a name/partial ticker to instruments
`get_equity_quotes`	Real-time quotes, multiple symbols per call
`get_equity_historicals`	OHLCV candles per symbol/interval	Completed bars only. We measured the 5-minute feed ~5 bars behind real time (28% of 25-min momentum reads flipped sign vs the tape) and hourly final-bar closes up to ~3.4% off SIP — rebuild the forming hour from 5m bars
`get_equity_price_book`	Order-book depth	Needs the Level-2 entitlement (Gold)
`get_equity_fundamentals`	Fundamentals snapshot
`get_financials`	Financial statements
`get_equity_technical_indicators`	Server-computed MAs, MACD, RSI etc.	Completed bars only, one symbol per call, server-side warmup — bulk scanning belongs on a data API, not here
`get_equity_tradability`	Session + fractional eligibility per symbol	The pre-flight check before any order; flags like closing-only fractional exist nowhere else — see our probed leveraged-ETF list for how much they vary

Indexes (3)

Tool	What it does	Gotcha
`get_indexes`	List supported indexes
`get_index_quotes`	Real-time index levels
`get_index_historicals`	Historical index levels

Earnings (2)

Tool	What it does	Gotcha
`get_earnings_calendar`	Upcoming earnings dates
`get_earnings_results`	Reported results and surprises

Equity orders (4)

Tool	What it does	Gotcha
`place_equity_order`	Place a stock/ETF order (shares or dollars)	Fractional/dollar orders execute in regular hours only, whatever the symbol's overnight flags say
`review_equity_order`	Validate + preview an order without placing	The single most under-used safety tool: an agent can show its work and stop here for a human yes
`get_equity_orders`	List open/past equity orders
`cancel_equity_order`	Cancel an open order

Options market data (6)

Tool	What it does	Gotcha
`get_option_chains`	Expirations and strikes for an underlying
`get_option_instruments`	Resolve specific contracts
`get_option_quotes`	Quotes and greeks for contracts
`get_option_historicals`	Historical contract prices
`get_option_positions`	Open option positions
`get_option_level_upgrade_info`	Account's option level + upgrade requirements

Option orders (6)

Tool	What it does	Gotcha
`place_option_order`	Place an option order	Gated by the account's approved option level
`review_option_order`	Preview an option order without placing
`get_option_orders`	List open/past option orders
`cancel_option_order`	Cancel an open option order
`exercise_option`	Exercise a held contract
`cancel_option_exercise`	Cancel a pending exercise

Watchlists (12)

Tool	What it does	Gotcha
`get_watchlists`	List the account's watchlists
`get_watchlist_items`	Symbols in a watchlist
`create_watchlist`	Create a watchlist	Watchlists double as cheap agent↔human channels — an agent writes candidates, a human reviews on the phone
`update_watchlist`	Rename/update a watchlist
`add_to_watchlist`	Add equity symbols
`remove_from_watchlist`	Remove equity symbols
`follow_watchlist`	Follow a shared watchlist
`unfollow_watchlist`	Unfollow one
`get_popular_watchlists`	Robinhood's curated lists
`get_option_watchlist`	Saved option contracts
`add_option_to_watchlist`	Save an option contract
`remove_option_from_watchlist`	Remove a saved contract

Scans — server-side screeners (6)

Tool	What it does	Gotcha
`get_scanner_filter_specs`	Supported filter fields and operators	Read this first — anything outside it gets silently dropped
`create_scan`	Create a saved screen
`get_scans`	List saved scans
`run_scan`	Execute a scan	Always read `filters_applied` back — a dropped filter silently widens results
`update_scan_config`	Update name/sort/limit
`update_scan_filters`	Replace the filter set

The five gotchas that actually bite

Burst = 429. Parallel tool calls draw throttles. Pace sequentially, back off on 429, batch symbols where a tool accepts lists.
Dropped filters are silent. The scanner ignores unsupported params without erroring. filters_applied is the only truth.
The 5-minute feed lags. ~5 bars behind in our measurement — momentum reads on the freshest bars flip sign 28% of the time vs the consolidated tape. Rebuild the forming hour from 5m; treat the newest bar as provisional.
Tradability is per-symbol and weird. Closing-only fractional flags and overnight-session exclusions vary fund by fund — pre-flight every order with get_equity_tradability.
Review before place, always. The review tools exist so an agent can show its work. Wire your guardrails so the placing tools are unreachable without a reviewed order — the template is in our agent guardrails file.

Agent builders: the whole reference is downloadable as robinhood-mcp-tools.json (CC-BY) — load it into your agent's context instead of letting it guess tool semantics.

Independently observed from live use on a standard individual account enabled for agentic trading; not an official Robinhood document, and not affiliated with Robinhood. Tool names, counts and behavior change without notice. Nothing here is investment advice.

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