How to integrate Twelve data MCP with Claude Agent SDK

This guide walks you through connecting Twelve data to the Claude Agent SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Twelve data agent that can list all supported cryptocurrencies today, convert 100 usd to eur right now, show recent dividend payouts for aapl through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your Claude Agent SDK agent real control over a Twelve data account through Composio's Twelve data MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Twelve Data is a financial data API providing real-time and historical market data for stocks, forex, crypto, ETFs, and indices. It helps you access accurate, up-to-date financial information for analysis and automation.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Twelve data to the Claude Agent SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Twelve data agent that can list all supported cryptocurrencies today, convert 100 usd to eur right now, show recent dividend payouts for aapl through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your Claude Agent SDK agent real control over a Twelve data account through Composio's Twelve data MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get and set up your Claude/Anthropic and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Twelve data
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Twelve data as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Twelve data operations

What is Claude Agent SDK?

The Claude Agent SDK is Anthropic's official framework for building AI agents powered by Claude. It provides a streamlined interface for creating agents with MCP tool support and conversation management.

Key features include:

  • Native MCP Support: Built-in support for Model Context Protocol servers
  • Permission Modes: Control tool execution permissions
  • Streaming Responses: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications
  • Context Manager: Clean async context management for sessions

What is the Twelve data MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Twelve data MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Twelve Data account. It provides structured and secure access to real-time and historical financial market data, so your agent can retrieve stock prices, analyze dividend and earnings history, explore ETFs, and perform currency conversions on your behalf.

  • Comprehensive market data access: Instantly pull up-to-date information on stocks, forex, cryptocurrencies, commodities, and indices to support analysis or decision-making.
  • Dividend and earnings insights: Retrieve detailed dividend payout history and earnings reports, including EPS estimates, actuals, and trend analysis for specific companies.
  • ETF exploration and categorization: Ask your agent to fetch directories of ETFs, sort by assets, family, or market, and explore various ETF types for in-depth portfolio research.
  • Real-time currency conversion: Effortlessly convert amounts between currencies using live exchange rates for accurate financial planning and reporting.
  • Cryptocurrency and commodity discovery: List all supported cryptocurrencies and commodities, helping you quickly identify available assets for further analysis or trading strategies.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Composio SDK

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step09 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Composio API Key and Claude/Anthropic API Key
  • Primary know-how of Claude Agents SDK
  • A Twelve data account
  • Some knowledge of Python
2

Getting API Keys for Claude/Anthropic and Composio

Claude/Anthropic API Key
  • Go to the Anthropic Console and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.
3

Install dependencies

npm install @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk @composio/core dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the Claude Agents SDK.

What's happening:

  • @composio/core provides Composio integration for Anthropic
  • @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk is the core agent framework
  • dotenv/config loads environment variables
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
  • USER_ID identifies the user for session management
  • ANTHROPIC_API_KEY authenticates with Anthropic/Claude
5

Import dependencies

import 'dotenv/config';
import readline from 'node:readline';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { query, type Options } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";

dotenv.config();
What's happening:
  • We're importing all necessary libraries including the Claude Agent SDK and Composio
  • The dotenv.config() function loads environment variables from your .env file
  • This setup prepares the foundation for connecting Claude with Twelve data functionality
6

Create a Composio instance and Tool Router session

async function chat() {
  const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;
  if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
    throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
  }

  const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });

  // Create Tool Router session for Twelve data
  const session = await composio.create(USER_ID, {
    toolkits: ['twelve_data'],
  });
  const mcpUrl = session?.mcp.url;
What's happening:
  • The function checks for the required COMPOSIO_API_KEY environment variable
  • We're creating a Composio instance using our API key
  • The create method creates a Tool Router session for Twelve data
  • The returned url is the MCP server URL that your agent will use
7

Configure Claude Agent with MCP

const options: Options = {
  permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions',
  mcpServers: {
    composio: {
      type: 'http',
      url: mcpUrl,
      headers: { 'x-api-key': COMPOSIO_API_KEY }
    }
  },
  systemPrompt: 'You are a helpful assistant with access to Twelve data tools via Composio.',
  maxTurns: 10,
};
What's happening:
  • We're configuring the Claude Agent options with the MCP server URL
  • permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions' allows the agent to execute operations without asking for permission each time
  • The system prompt instructs the agent that it has access to Twelve data
  • maxTurns: 10 limits the conversation length to prevent excessive API usage
8

Create client and start chat loop

const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: '
  });

  console.log('\nChat started. Type "exit" to quit.\n');

  let isProcessing = false;

  async function ask(prompt: string) {
    isProcessing = true;
    rl.pause();

    process.stdout.write('Claude is thinking...');
    const stream = query({ prompt, options });

    let firstChunk = true;
    for await (const msg of stream) {
      const content = (msg as any).message?.content || (msg as any).content;
      if (Array.isArray(content)) {
        for (const block of content) {
          if (block.type === 'text' && block.text) {
            if (firstChunk) {
              process.stdout.write('\r\x1b[K');
              process.stdout.write('Claude: ');
              firstChunk = false;
            }
            process.stdout.write(block.text);
          }
        }
      }
    }
    process.stdout.write('\n\n');

    isProcessing = false;
    rl.resume();
    rl.prompt();
  }

  rl.on('line', async (line) => {
    if (isProcessing) return;

    const input = line.trim();
    if (input === 'exit') {
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }
    if (input) await ask(input);
    else rl.prompt();
  });

  await ask('What can you help me with?');
}
What's happening:
  • The readline interface is created to handle user input and output
  • The query function is used to send the user's input to the agent
  • The chat loop continues until the user types 'exit' or 'quit'
9

Run the application

try {
  await chat();
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
}
What's happening:
  • The chat function is the entry point for the application
  • The try-catch block is used to handle any errors that occur

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Twelve data and Claude Agent SDK:

import 'dotenv/config';
import readline from 'node:readline';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { query, type Options } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";

async function chat() {
  const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;
  if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
    throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
  }

  const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });
  const session = await composio.create(USER_ID, {
    toolkits: ['twelve_data']
  });
  const mcp_url = session?.mcp.url;

  const options: Options = {
    permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions',
    mcpServers: {
      composio: {
        type: 'http',
        url: mcp_url,
        headers: { 'x-api-key': COMPOSIO_API_KEY }
      }
    },
    systemPrompt: 'You are a helpful assistant with access to Twelve data tools via Composio.',
    maxTurns: 10,
  };

  const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: '
  });

  console.log('\nChat started. Type "exit" to quit.\n');

  let isProcessing = false;

  async function ask(prompt: string) {
    isProcessing = true;
    rl.pause();

    process.stdout.write('Claude is thinking...');
    const stream = query({ prompt, options });

    let firstChunk = true;
    for await (const msg of stream) {
      const content = (msg as any).message?.content || (msg as any).content;
      if (Array.isArray(content)) {
        for (const block of content) {
          if (block.type === 'text' && block.text) {
            if (firstChunk) {
              process.stdout.write('\r\x1b[K');
              process.stdout.write('Claude: ');
              firstChunk = false;
            }
            process.stdout.write(block.text);
          }
        }
      }
    }
    process.stdout.write('\n\n');

    isProcessing = false;
    rl.resume();
    rl.prompt();
  }

  rl.on('line', async (line) => {
    if (isProcessing) return;

    const input = line.trim();
    if (input === 'exit') {
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }
    if (input) await ask(input);
    else rl.prompt();
  });

  await ask('What can you help me with?');
}

try {
  await chat();
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
}

Conclusion

You've successfully built a Claude Agent SDK agent that can interact with Twelve data through Composio's Tool Router.

Key features:

  • Native MCP support through Claude's agent framework
  • Streaming responses for real-time interaction
  • Permission bypass for smooth automated workflows
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Twelve data action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Cash Flow

Tool to get company cash flow statement.

Consolidated Cash Flow

Tool to get raw consolidated cash flow statements.

List Commodities

Tool to retrieve a list of supported commodities.

Correlation Coefficient

Tool to fetch Pearson correlation coefficient between two series over a period.

List Countries

Tool to retrieve a list of countries with ISO codes, names, capitals, and currencies.

Cross Listings

Tool to retrieve cross-listed symbols for a security across multiple exchanges.

List Cryptocurrencies

Tool to list all supported cryptocurrencies.

List Cryptocurrency Exchanges

Tool to list supported cryptocurrency exchanges.

Currency Conversion

Tool to convert an amount from one currency to another.

Dividends

Tool to retrieve dividend payout history for a specified symbol.

Earnings

Tool to retrieve earnings data including EPS estimates and actuals.

EPS Revisions

Tool to provide analysts’ revisions of a company’s future EPS over the last week and month.

EPS Trend

Tool to retrieve EPS trend estimates for a specified company.

ETFS Directory

Tool to fetch a daily updated list of exchange-traded funds sorted by total assets.

ETFS Family

Tool to fetch a comprehensive list of ETFs by family.

Get ETF Types

Tool to retrieve ETF categories by market, including types like 'Equity Precious Metals'.

ETF World

Tool to fetch comprehensive ETF analytics (summary, performance, risk, composition).

ETF World Composition

Tool to fetch global ETF composition details including sector, country, asset allocations, top holdings, and bond metrics.

ETF World Risk

Tool to get global ETF risk metrics.

List supported exchanges

Tool to retrieve a list of supported exchanges.

List supported forex pairs

Tool to retrieve a list of all supported forex currency pairs.

Get AD Indicator

Tool to retrieve Accumulation/Distribution (AD) indicator data for a financial instrument.

Get API Usage

Tool to retrieve your current plan and remaining API credits.

Get APO (Absolute Price Oscillator)

Tool to calculate the Absolute Price Oscillator (APO) for a financial instrument.

Get Aroon Indicator

Tool to retrieve Aroon Indicator data for identifying market trends.

Balance Sheet

Tool to retrieve a company's balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity).

Balance Sheet Consolidated

Tool to get raw consolidated balance sheet data (assets, liabilities, equity) for a company.

Get Bollinger Bands

Tool to calculate Bollinger Bands (BBANDS) for a financial instrument.

Get Bonds

Tool to retrieve a daily updated list of available bonds (fixed income securities).

Get CCI

Tool to retrieve Commodity Channel Index (CCI) values for a specified security.

Get Ceiling (CEIL)

Tool to retrieve the Ceiling (CEIL) transformation for a time series.

Get Chande Momentum Oscillator

Tool to retrieve Chande Momentum Oscillator (CMO) data for a security.

Get Detrended Price Oscillator

Tool to calculate the Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO) for a specified financial instrument.

Get Earliest Timestamp

Tool to return the first available timestamp for a symbol and interval.

Get End of Day Price

Tool to retrieve end of day (EOD) closing price and metadata for a financial instrument.

Global ETF Performance

Tool to get global ETF performance metrics (trailing and annual returns).

Get exchange schedule

Tool to get trading sessions and hours for exchanges.

Get Fund Holders

Tool to retrieve mutual fund holders for a company.

Get Funds

Tool to fetch a daily updated list of available investment funds.

Get Heikin Ashi Candles

Tool to retrieve Heikin Ashi candlestick data that smooths price action by averaging values.

Get HLC3 Average

Tool to calculate the High, Low, Close Average (HLC3) for a security over a specified period.

Get Hilbert Transform Sine Wave

Tool to fetch Hilbert Transform Sine Wave (HT_SINE) data for an instrument.

Get Ichimoku Cloud Indicator

Tool to retrieve Ichimoku Kinko Hyo indicator data for analyzing trend direction, support/resistance levels, and trading opportunities.

Income Statement

Tool to retrieve a company's income statement data (annual or quarterly).

Insider Transactions

REQUIRES PRO, ULTRA, OR ENTERPRISE PLAN.

Get Available Intervals

Tool to retrieve a list of available time intervals supported by the API.

Get Keltner Channel

Tool to retrieve Keltner Channel indicator data for volatility-based technical analysis.

Key Executives

REQUIRES ULTRA OR ENTERPRISE PLAN.

Get Last Change

Tool to retrieve the latest update timestamps for a fundamentals dataset.

Get Linear Regression Angle

Tool to calculate the linear regression angle for a given time series of stock prices.

Get Linear Regression Intercept

Tool to calculate the y-intercept of a linear regression line for a given dataset.

Get Linear Regression Slope

Tool to calculate the linear regression slope for a given dataset over a specified period.

Get Base-10 Logarithm (LOG10)

Tool to compute the base-10 logarithm (LOG10) of a specified input value.

Get Logo

Tool to retrieve official logo URLs for a symbol.

Get MACD

Tool to calculate the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) for a specified financial instrument.

Get MAMA

Tool to fetch MESA Adaptive Moving Average (MAMA) indicator data.

Market Movers

Tool to retrieve a snapshot of top gainers or losers for a specified market.

Get Market State

Tool to report current open/closed status for exchanges.

Get Maximum Value

Tool to calculate and return the highest value within a specified data series over a given period.

Get McGinley Dynamic Indicator

Tool to calculate the McGinley Dynamic indicator, which provides a refined moving average that adapts to market volatility.

Get Median Price

Tool to calculate and retrieve the Median Price (MEDPRICE) technical indicator for a security.

Get Minus Directional Indicator

Tool to calculate and return the Minus Directional Indicator (MINUS_DI) for a security.

Global Mutual Fund Performance

Tool to get global mutual fund performance metrics (trailing, annual, quarterly, load-adjusted returns).

Mutual Funds World Risk

Tool to fetch global mutual fund risk metrics.

Global Mutual Fund Summary

Tool to retrieve a global mutual fund summary snapshot.

Global Mutual Fund Sustainability

Tool to get global mutual fund sustainability and ESG metrics.

Get Plus Directional Indicator

Tool to fetch the Plus Directional Indicator (PLUS_DI) time series data for a security.

Get Price

Tool to retrieve the latest market price for a specified financial instrument.

Price Target

Tool to fetch analysts' price target dataset for equities.

Get Profile

Tool to retrieve company profile.

Recommendations

Retrieve aggregated analyst recommendations for a stock.

Get Rate of Change (ROC)

Tool to retrieve Rate of Change (ROC) indicator data for a security.

Get ROCP (Rate of Change Percentage)

Tool to calculate and return the Rate of Change Percentage (ROCP) for a financial security.

Get ROCR100

Tool to calculate the Rate of Change Ratio 100 (ROCR100) for a security.

Get Relative Volume

Tool to fetch relative volume (RVOL) data for a security.

Stock Splits

Tool to retrieve historical stock split events.

Splits Calendar

Tool to retrieve a calendar of stock split events.

Get Statistics

Tool to retrieve key company statistics including valuation and financial overview.

Get Stochastic RSI

Tool to calculate the Stochastic Relative Strength Index (Stochastic RSI) for a specified financial instrument.

Get Summation (SUM)

Tool to calculate the cumulative total (Summation) of a specified data series over a defined time period.

Get Technical Indicators List

Tool to retrieve a comprehensive list of available technical indicators.

Get TEMA (Triple Exponential Moving Average)

Tool to calculate the Triple Exponential Moving Average (TEMA) for a financial instrument.

Get Variance (VAR)

Tool to calculate the statistical variance of a financial data series.

Get Weighted Close Price

Tool to calculate and retrieve the Weighted Close Price (WCLPRICE) for a security.

Get Weighted Moving Average (WMA)

Tool to calculate and retrieve the Weighted Moving Average (WMA) for a security over a specified period.

List market indices

Tool to retrieve a list of market indices.

Institutional Holders

Tool to retrieve institutional holders positions for a company.

Mutual Funds Family

Tool to list all available mutual fund families.

Mutual Funds List

Tool to retrieve a daily updated list of mutual funds sorted by total assets.

Mutual Funds World Composition

Tool to fetch global mutual fund portfolio composition including sectors, asset allocation, top holdings, and bond metrics.

Options Chain

Tool to retrieve the options chain for a given symbol and optional expiration date.

Options Expiration

Tool to retrieve available option expiration dates.

Quote

Tool to retrieve the latest market data for a specified symbol.

List Stocks

Tool to retrieve a list of stocks.

Symbol Search

Tool to search for financial instruments by symbol or company name.

Technical Indicators

Tool to fetch time-series data for a specific technical indicator.

Time Series

Tool to retrieve historical and real-time time series data for a specified symbol.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Twelve data MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Twelve data tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Twelve data and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Agent SDK fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Twelve data tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Twelve data scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Twelve data data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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