# Optionscanner (remote · optionscanner.ai)

Free options calculators and the Optionscanner Learn library for any AI assistant. No account.

- Trust score: 82/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `optionscanner.ai`: 82/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-optionscanner-optionscanner/optionscanner.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-optionscanner-optionscanner/optionscanner)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://optionscanner.ai/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `4.1.3`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 76/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1713 tokens (~155/item across 11 items; 10 tools + 1 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 80/100
  - Stability observed for 24 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 10 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 12 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Optionscanner MCP server?

Optionscanner is a hosted endpoint at https://optionscanner.ai/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http ai-optionscanner-optionscanner 'https://optionscanner.ai/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-optionscanner-optionscanner": {
      "url": "https://optionscanner.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ai-optionscanner-optionscanner": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://optionscanner.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ai-optionscanner-optionscanner]
url = "https://optionscanner.ai/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ai-optionscanner-optionscanner": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://optionscanner.ai/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ai-optionscanner-optionscanner --url 'https://optionscanner.ai/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ai-optionscanner-optionscanner:
    url: "https://optionscanner.ai/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ai-optionscanner-optionscanner": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://optionscanner.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ai-optionscanner-optionscanner -t streamable-http -u 'https://optionscanner.ai/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-optionscanner-optionscanner": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://optionscanner.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-03 (score 82, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 70 to 73. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 21 days of observed history at the previous scan, 22 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 81, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 days of observed history at the previous scan, 20 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-30 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 57 to 60. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 17 days of observed history at the previous scan, 18 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-28 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 50 to 53. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 15 days of observed history at the previous scan, 16 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-27 (score 78, +2)

- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: fail → pass
- [functional] MCP protocol version: 2025-06-18 → 2025-11-25
- [functional] Server version: 1.12.4 → 1.30.0

### 2026-10-25 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 40 to 43. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 12 days of observed history at the previous scan, 13 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-23 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-21 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (10)

### `profit_calculator` (~311 tokens)

Options profit calculator

Price any options trade with up to eight legs: maximum profit and loss, breakevens, net credit or debit, the model's chance of profit at expiration and the expected move. Pass a strategy name (for example iron_condor or bull_put_spread) to build standard legs from the stock price, or pass the legs yourself with strikes and prices. Ask it for the max loss on a spread, the breakeven on a straddle, or the chance a condor finishes profitable. Returns a link that opens the same trade in the Optionscanner calculator.

Input parameters:

- `days` (number, required): Days to expiration.
- `iv_pct` (number, required): Implied volatility, percent per year (30 means 30 percent).
- `legs`: The legs of the trade, up to eight. Each has a side (buy or sell), a type (call, put or stock), a strike for options, a quantity, and optionally the price per share paid or received; a missing price…
- `rate_pct` (number): Interest rate the model uses, percent per year. Default 4.
- `spot` (number, required): Stock price in dollars.
- `strategy`: A standard structure built from the stock price: long_call, long_put, covered_call, cash_secured_put, bull_call_spread, bear_put_spread, bull_put_spread, bear_call_spread, iron_condor, long_straddle,…

### `what_if` (~329 tokens)

WHAT IF on an options trade

What a trade is worth if the stock moves, time passes or implied volatility changes: profit or loss on a chosen date at a chosen stock price, the same at expiration, and the change for one more day, one more volatility point and a one dollar move. Use it for questions like what happens to my condor if the stock drops ten percent next week.

Input parameters:

- `days` (number, required): Days to expiration.
- `days_from_now` (number): Days into the future for the scenario. 0 means today.
- `iv_change_points` (number): Change in implied volatility in points, applied to every leg. Negative for a drop.
- `iv_pct` (number, required): Implied volatility, percent per year (30 means 30 percent).
- `legs`: The legs of the trade, up to eight. Each has a side (buy or sell), a type (call, put or stock), a strike for options, a quantity, and optionally the price per share paid or received; a missing price…
- `rate_pct` (number): Interest rate the model uses, percent per year. Default 4.
- `spot` (number, required): Stock price in dollars.
- `stock_price` (number, required): The stock price in the scenario.
- `strategy`: A standard structure built from the stock price: long_call, long_put, covered_call, cash_secured_put, bull_call_spread, bear_put_spread, bull_put_spread, bear_call_spread, iron_condor, long_straddle,…

### `list_strategies` (~120 tokens)

List the standard options strategies

The eleven standard structures the calculator knows (long call and put, covered call, cash-secured put, the four vertical spreads, iron condor, straddle, strangle), each built on an example stock price with its legs, maximum profit and loss, breakevens and chance of profit, with a link to open each one.

Input parameters:

- `days` (number): Days to expiration.
- `iv_pct` (number): Implied volatility, percent per year (30 means 30 percent).
- `spot` (number): Stock price in dollars.

### `expected_move` (~81 tokens)

Expected move

The one and two standard deviation price ranges the options market is pricing for a stock over a horizon, from the stock price, implied volatility and days ahead.

Input parameters:

- `days` (number, required): Calendar days ahead.
- `iv_pct` (number, required): Implied volatility, percent per year (30 means 30 percent).
- `price` (number, required): Stock price in dollars.

### `credit_spread` (~179 tokens)

Credit spread calculator

Bull put or bear call credit spread figures: width, maximum profit and loss, breakeven, return on risk, credit-to-width, and the model's chance of profit when implied volatility and days are given.

Input parameters:

- `contracts` (integer): Number of contracts. Default 1.
- `credit` (number, required): Net credit received per share, in dollars.
- `days`: Days to expiration, for the chance of profit. Optional.
- `iv_pct`: Implied volatility, percent per year, for the chance of profit. Optional.
- `kind` (string, required): put for a bull put spread, call for a bear call spread.
- `long_strike` (number, required): The strike bought, in dollars.
- `price` (number, required): Stock price in dollars.
- `short_strike` (number, required): The strike sold, in dollars.

### `debit_spread` (~183 tokens)

Debit spread calculator

Call or put debit spread figures: width, maximum profit and loss, breakeven, reward to risk, debit-to-width, and the model's chance of profit when implied volatility and days are given.

Input parameters:

- `contracts` (integer): Number of contracts. Default 1.
- `days`: Days to expiration, for the chance of profit. Optional.
- `debit` (number, required): Net debit paid per share, in dollars.
- `iv_pct`: Implied volatility, percent per year, for the chance of profit. Optional.
- `kind` (string, required): call for a call debit spread (bullish), put for a put debit spread (bearish).
- `long_strike` (number, required): The strike bought, in dollars.
- `price` (number, required): Stock price in dollars.
- `short_strike` (number, required): The strike sold, in dollars.

### `probability_of_profit` (~115 tokens)

Probability of profit

The model probability that a stock finishes above or below a price level (a breakeven or a short strike) by a date, from implied volatility, under the lognormal the options market implies.

Input parameters:

- `days` (number, required): Days to expiration.
- `iv_pct` (number, required): Implied volatility, percent per year (30 means 30 percent).
- `level` (number, required): The price level to test, in dollars: a breakeven or a short strike.
- `price` (number, required): Stock price in dollars.

### `position_size` (~94 tokens)

Position size

How many contracts fit a risk budget: account equity, the percent of it risked per trade, and the worst case per contract give the dollar budget, the contract count and the share of equity at risk.

Input parameters:

- `equity` (number, required): Account equity in dollars.
- `max_loss_per_contract` (number, required): Maximum loss per contract in dollars.
- `risk_pct` (number, required): Risk budget per trade as a percent of equity.

### `learn_search` (~96 tokens)

Search the Optionscanner Learn library

Find the Learn article, glossary term, calculator or research page that answers an options question: strategies, the greeks, implied volatility, IV rank, probability of profit, rolling, assignment, the wheel, screening rules and more. Returns titles, summaries and links.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): How many results, 1 to 20. Default 5.
- `query` (string, required): What to look for, in plain words.

### `learn_read` (~72 tokens)

Read a Learn page

The full text of one Learn article, glossary term, calculator page or research page by slug, as Markdown with its link. Use learn_search first when the slug is unknown.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): The page slug or path, for example iron-condor-entry-screening or /learn/glossary/delta.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-optionscanner-optionscanner/optionscanner#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 82
- 2026-11-04: 82
- 2026-11-03: 82
- 2026-11-02: 81
- 2026-11-01: 81
- 2026-10-31: 80
- 2026-10-30: 80
- 2026-10-29: 79
- 2026-10-28: 79
- 2026-10-27: 78
- 2026-10-26: 76
- 2026-10-25: 76
- 2026-10-24: 75
- 2026-10-23: 75
- 2026-10-22: 74
- 2026-10-21: 74
- 2026-10-20: 73
- 2026-10-19: 73
- 2026-10-18: 72
- 2026-10-17: 72
- 2026-10-16: 72
- 2026-10-15: 71
- 2026-10-14: 71
- 2026-10-13: 70
- 2026-10-12: 70

## Common questions

### What is the Optionscanner MCP server?

Optionscanner is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ai.optionscanner/optionscanner. Free options calculators and the Optionscanner Learn library for any AI assistant. No account. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://optionscanner.ai/mcp).

### Is the Optionscanner MCP server safe to use?

Optionscanner scores 82 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Optionscanner MCP server expose?

Optionscanner exposes 10 tools: profit_calculator, what_if, list_strategies, expected_move, credit_spread, and 5 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,580 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Optionscanner MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Optionscanner without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Optionscanner MCP server still maintained?

Optionscanner is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://optionscanner.ai/mcp
- Website: https://optionscanner.ai/learn/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-optionscanner-optionscanner/optionscanner.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-optionscanner-optionscanner/optionscanner.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-optionscanner-optionscanner/optionscanner