Another subscription for a tool I use twice a month.

Prefer your own agent? Connect it.

The Lab speaks MCP, the open protocol AI assistants use to call tools. Connect Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or any MCP client with a personal access token, and your agent can build strategies, run backtests and optimizations, and read the reports. The AI is yours and costs nothing extra.

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MCP · agent and LabSample

Your agentClaude · Cursor · ChatGPTTrado LabMCP server

initialize bearer token, scopes read and run
tools only what the scopes allow
get_agent_guide the Lab's data, formats and limits
validate_run problems and credit price, nothing queued
run_backtest queued after your agent confirms
get_report verdict, evidence, costs

Illustration: a sample strategy, not a result.

What your agent can do

The MCP server exposes the same tools the in-app Copilot uses, limited to what the token's scopes allow.

Create, validate, update and version strategies, and write custom indicators.

Run backtests, optimizations and parameter sweeps, and run studies that measure what happens after a named condition across the whole universe.

Read reports, trades, equity curves and insights, and summarise whole batches of runs.

Check what a run would cost before it is queued, and read your credits and limits.

Create and watch paper deployments.

How to connect

Sign in, open Settings → Tokens, and create a token with the scopes you want: read, run (strategies, runs, optimizations) or deploy (paper deployments). The token acts as you, in your own lab.

Then add the Lab's MCP endpoint to your client. With Claude Code, for example: claude mcp add --transport http trado-lab https://algo.trado.trade/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <token>". Other clients take the same URL and bearer token in their MCP settings. Tell your agent to call get_agent_guide first: it is a short briefing on the Lab's data, strategy format, limits and safety rules.

Safe by design

Scopes

A token sees only the tools its scopes allow. A read-only token cannot start a run.

No live trading

Tokens can manage paper deployments only. Approving a live deployment needs you, in a browser session.

Spend checks

Agents can validate a run or search to see its problems and its credit price before queueing anything.

Rate limits

Per token, so a runaway agent cannot flood the Lab. Use one token per project and revoke it any time.

What it costs

Connecting your own AI is free: you pay your AI provider whatever you already pay them, and the Lab charges nothing for the connection or for reading. The backtests and optimizations your agent starts use credits at the same prices as runs you start yourself. See pricing.

Bring-your-own-AI questions

Which AI assistants work?

Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT, and any other client that supports MCP over streamable HTTP with bearer-token authentication.

Why use my own agent instead of the Copilot?

If you already pay for an assistant you like, it can use the Lab at no extra AI cost, and it keeps the context of your other work. The in-app Copilot is there for people who want everything in one place.

How do I stop an agent's access?

Revoke its token in Settings → Tokens. The Lab refuses a revoked token from then on.

Opens 1 November 2026, 00:00 IST. Get in first.

500 launch credits, on top of the 25 welcome credits every account gets.
Early access by invitation, about a week before launch.
First month of a higher plan at the Starter price.

The benefits attach when you create your account with the same e-mail address you used on the waitlist and verify it. Joining the waitlist after launch gives no founding benefits.

Updated 6 October 2026. Read this page as Markdown. Trading leveraged crypto derivatives can lose more than your margin; nothing here is investment advice.