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Option analytics over the SYNTH sample or a permitted chain: Greeks, positioning, payoffs, plots.
Remote server: your requests and data go to optiondesk.avidquant.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http option-desk https://optiondesk.avidquant.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
option_desk_status — Check the Option Desk data mode, source, refresh time, and public licence gate before requesting figures. No live feed or hosted backtest tooption_snapshot_schema — Return the accepted CSV and JSON option-chain fields, safe repair rules, size limits, data-rights confirmation, and retention policy.option_chain_snapshot — Summarize SYNTH or analyze a user-supplied option chain for private analysis. This service never fetches market data.option_positioning — Return gamma walls, gamma flip, and max pain from SYNTH or a user-supplied chain. Dealer signs are an assumption, not observed positions.option_plots — Render opaque PNG plots in the conversation. The SYNTH sample offers the market plot (dealer gamma exposure, open interest, volume and the soption_strategy_plot — Show an option-strategy payoff as an opaque PNG in the conversation. Any structure in the engine playbook can be built on the SYNTH sample coption_report_plots — Return the market map, Greek ladder, strategy comparison and up to three requested payoff charts in ONE widget. Prefer this tool for multi-coption_private_dashboard — Create a private interactive dashboard from user-supplied data. The bearer URL and all derived artifacts expire after one hour.option_validate_snapshot — Validate and safely normalize a user-supplied option-chain snapshot. Return corrections and a summary. Delete all temporary files before theoption_import_snapshot — Import user-supplied option-chain data into a bearer-private interactive dashboard. Delete the artifacts after one hour.option_plots_from_snapshot — Create opaque market and Greek PNG images from a user-supplied snapshot. Stamp source, capture time, expiry, and warnings on every image. Deoption_strategy_from_snapshot — Build one option structure from a user-supplied chain and return its opaque payoff PNG with permanent source and risk warnings.option_delete_snapshot — Delete one short-lived imported dashboard before its automatic one-hour expiry.Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.