S&P Global — Deterministic Retrieval

Query S&P Capital IQ financials, prices, transcripts and M&A data.

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What the S&P Global — Deterministic Retrieval connector does

The S&P Global MCP server — Kensho's Deterministic Retrieval — connects S&P Capital IQ financials, market prices, earnings transcripts and M&A records to Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP client. It is read-only: every tool fetches, none writes. Kensho's source registers 37 tools and serves you only the ones your firm's data licence covers.

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S&P Global — Deterministic Retrieval tools (37)

  • get_latest
  • get_n_quarters_ago
  • get_business_relationship_from_identifiers
  • get_capitalization_from_identifiers
  • get_info_from_identifiers
  • get_company_other_names_from_identifiers
  • get_company_summary_from_identifiers
  • get_company_description_from_identifiers
  • get_competitors_from_identifiers
  • get_next_earnings_from_identifiers
  • get_cusip_from_identifiers
  • get_isin_from_identifiers
  • get_earnings_from_identifiers
  • get_latest_earnings_from_identifiers
  • get_transcript_from_key_dev_id
  • get_financial_line_item_from_identifiers
  • get_prices_from_identifiers
  • get_segments_from_identifiers
  • get_financial_statement_from_identifiers
  • get_advisors_for_company_in_transactions
  • get_merger_info_from_transaction_id
  • get_mergers_from_identifiers

Tool names from Anthropic's directory listing. This server requires sign-in, so we could not read tool descriptions or parameter schemas.

Limits

  • Your tool list is not this list. Thirty-three of the 37 tools require a dataset entitlement, so a firm that does not license transcripts sees no transcript tool. Plan against the tools your account actually returns, not against any published count.
  • No accounting tool exists, and no rate is published. Nothing in the surface reports usage, quota, credits or a balance — a scan of all 37 names for credit, balance, usage, quota and billing returns nothing. Kensho publishes no rate limit or per-call price for this server either. The sibling Adaptive Retrieval server, by contrast, documents quota, billed overage and usage headers, which shows Kensho meters where it means to. The cost of a Deterministic Retrieval session is defined by your contract and is not observable from inside the agent, so find out what your agreement says before running an agent in a loop against it.
  • The data is licensed, and the code licence does not cover it. The kfinance client is Apache 2.0 with a real LICENSE file, but the Capital IQ, Visible Alpha and transcript content it returns is separately licensed. Kensho's permission model includes an entitlement whose name explicitly excludes redistribution, so redistribution rights differ *within* a single subscription.
  • We could not read S&P Global's terms of use. www.spglobal.com returned HTTP 403 to every client we tried, including a browser user agent, so we could not check for clauses governing AI use, agentic workflows or reuse of retrieved output. Your firm's own S&P Global agreement and any unpublished addendum govern, and we have not read them. Do not treat this page's silence as permission.
  • Broad screening is not supported. Kensho states the API is company-object oriented and that a prompt must name at least one identifier, and that for broad industry research other S&P Global solutions may be better suited. The screening routes that exist in the REST API are not exposed as MCP tools.
  • Accuracy is your side of the line. Kensho's FAQ states that no AI model is used or provided as part of the service and that for LLM integrations accuracy depends on the model and architecture you use. The API itself is deterministic; the summary the agent writes from it is not. Kensho notes the generated code can be audited to verify which retrieval steps were taken.
  • One tool is staff-gated. get_issuer_ratings_from_identifiers requires a Kensho staff entitlement in the version we read, so credit ratings are not part of a normal subscriber's surface despite appearing in the source.
  • Two names in Anthropic's listing no longer exist. They were removed in Kensho version 7.0.0. A client that hard-codes them against the current server will fail.
  • This is not the Adaptive Retrieval connector. S&P Global lists two MCP servers with similar descriptions. Everything here describes Deterministic Retrieval at kfinance.kensho.com; Adaptive Retrieval is a separate endpoint with separate metering.
  • The nominated documentation URL is a signpost, not a document. Kensho's MCP overview page carries roughly 150 words of its own prose — the rest of the 344 words a text extractor sees is the site navigation. It is not a thin site, though: the substance sits on the sibling pages that navigation links to, and the full OpenAPI specification is served inside a __NEXT_DATA__ payload on the API page rather than as a fetchable spec file. All of them are listed below.

Frequently asked questions

How many tools does the S&P Global MCP server have?

Thirty-seven exist in Kensho's source; you will see fewer. Anthropic's directory lists 22. Kensho's kfinance package, which builds both the local and hosted servers, registers 37 and then filters them against the permissions on your account before the list is served. Thirty-three of those 37 tools are gated behind a dataset entitlement, so your firm's subscription decides the list.

Can the S&P Global connector change or delete any financial data?

No. All 37 tools in Kensho's source begin with get_ and every one resolves to a fixed read path on the LLM-ready API. The published OpenAPI specification describes 63 paths with 56 GET and 8 POST operations and no PUT, PATCH or DELETE anywhere. Each POST is a batch query envelope carrying identifiers, not a write.

Does each S&P Global MCP query cost money or use a quota?

Kensho publishes no per-call rate, quota or rate limit for this server, and no tool reports usage. Its sibling Adaptive Retrieval server is explicitly metered, with billed overage and quota headers on every response. Deterministic Retrieval has no equivalent published accounting, so treat spend as contract-defined and unobservable from inside the agent.

What personal data can the S&P Global connector read?

Named executives and directors, including their pay. The get_professionals_from_identifiers tool returns a roster with person_id, name, title and tenure, and an optional include_compensation flag adds reported pay. Its per-person companion adds include_biography, returning career narrative, prior employers and typically education. Both default to false, so the agent must ask for them.

Why does the tool list differ between two S&P Global subscribers?

Because Kensho filters the list by entitlement. Its client builds every tool, then keeps only those whose required permission intersects your account's permissions, so a firm without a transcripts licence never sees the transcript tool. Kensho states the same thing in its documentation: users can ask these questions depending on which datasets they are licensed for.

Can I use S&P Global data retrieved through MCP in my own AI product?

Read your S&P Global agreement first. The kfinance client is Apache 2.0, but that licence covers the code, not the data it returns. Capital IQ financials, transcripts and Visible Alpha estimates are separately licensed content, and Kensho's own permission model names one entitlement that excludes redistribution. We could not retrieve S&P Global's terms of use to check further.

Is there an S&P Global connector for open-ended research questions?

Yes, and it is a separate listing. S&P Global — Adaptive Retrieval is a different server at grounding.kensho.com that takes a natural-language query and routes it across datasets itself. Deterministic Retrieval, described on this page, requires the agent to pick the tool and name a company. Anthropic lists both, and they can be used together.

What does the S&P Global MCP server require before I connect?

A paid LLM-ready API subscription and Kensho Okta credentials. Kensho documents that access is arranged through S&P Global Marketplace and that your Okta credentials arrive by email when you sign up for a trial or account. Kensho also states you must be a Claude team owner to add the connector to your organisation for the first time.

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