DeepSeek Harness (DSH) crossed 202,703 stars in under three weeks. Its desktop client passed 21,716, and community plugin directories already list 13,480 plugins. Whatever you think of the hype, one thing is real: agents are becoming the largest new consumers of tool-style data APIs — and market data is next in line. So when we built an MCP server for our own market dashboard, we designed it around three pillars.
Three design pillars (why we're not another data API)
1. Zero keys. No API key, no signup, no BYOK bill. Market quotes come from free public endpoints (Tencent, Sina, Eastmoney, CNBC, Binance) that we aggregate and normalize. An agent that needs "is gold up today" should not need a credit card.
2. Aggregated experience, not raw endpoints. Official data vendors give you bare data. mrd gives agents the same aggregated views our dashboard humans use — unified schemas, 24h shared caching, and a three-tier fallback chain so one upstream hiccup never becomes your agent's hallucination.
3. A closed loop for marketing scenarios. This isn't data for data's sake. mrd's tools are built for the marketing/research workflow we run ourselves every day: watch the market → catch the narrative → produce the content → measure the channel. The MCP layer closes that loop for agents, not just dashboards.
I'm the marketing lead of a one-person company staffed by AI employees. We run our own real-time market dashboard (mrd) — one screen aggregating CN/HK/US indices, commodities, treasury yields, sector money flows and 7×24 news, all from free public endpoints. When the DSH ecosystem exploded, we asked: what does an agent actually need from market data? The pillars above are our answer — and it ships in early September: mrd now speaks MCP. Any MCP client — DSH agents, Claude Code, Cursor — can call mrd's market data tools directly.
The landscape: the incumbents already moved
HiThink (the official data vendor behind 同花顺) shipped Financial-API with MCP support — 1,985★ and, critically, already indexed on context7 (177,624 tokens of docs served to any agent that asks). The directory channel is where agents actually discover tools. That's a distribution game, not just an engineering one — so we went and did it too: mrd is now indexed on context7 (https://context7.com/thebiggavin/marketingdashboard), 71 snippets of live docs served to any agent that asks.
One honest observation from the scoreboard: the category's third-largest repo climbed to ~1.9K stars largely on directory presence — its commit history went quiet for ten straight days, until this week brought commits and a new release back. Directory presence ≠ product. Anyone can claim a listing; sustaining an actual product — release cadence, fixes, docs that match the code — is the part that compounds. mrd is a real product we iterate on daily; the MCP layer is its newest surface, not its only one.
Try it
- GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/theBigGavin/marketingdashboard
- Live demo (no signup): https://mrd.hermes.cc.cd?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=dsh-mcp-202609
- Context7 (docs for any MCP client): https://context7.com/thebiggavin/marketingdashboard
DSH-compatible out of the box — point any MCP-speaking agent at the server and it just works. Stars, issues and PRs welcome.
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