The Finance Data Package

The Finance Data package lets you ask Claude for financial, market, and economic data in plain English — “get Apple’s daily prices since 2015,” “download the Fama-French factors,” “pull CPI and unemployment from FRED” — and get a clean CSV file ready for analysis. It routes each request to the right free source:

  • Yahoo Finance and Stooq — stock, ETF, and index prices
  • SEC EDGAR — company fundamentals from 10-K/10-Q filings
  • FRED — macroeconomic and interest-rate series
  • Ken French Data Library — asset-pricing factor returns
  • FinnHub — company news and earnings surprises
  • Financial Modeling Prep — analyst price targets and estimates, market movers, economic and earnings calendars
  • US Treasury — the daily yield curve

Installation

Installing it is one click: open Help → Run Setup… and check Finance Data under Plugins. The install sets up the Python libraries these sources need and the skill that teaches Claude which source to use and how. It needs Python, which Run Setup installs for you first. Two sources (FinnHub, Financial Modeling Prep) use free API keys — Claude will walk you through getting them the first time they’re needed.

Run Setup is also where updates appear — it flags a new version of the package when one is available, so you don’t need to download a new copy of Academic Studio to get it. The installed skill lives in your shared Claude configuration, so it works from Claude Code CLI and the Code mode of Claude Desktop too.

Academic Studio is not required. The plugin is published in the kerryback/skills marketplace, so you can install it into Claude Code directly:

/plugin marketplace add kerryback/skills
/plugin install finance-data@kerryback-skills

Adding the marketplace is a one-time step — every other plugin on this site installs from it the same way. The same two commands work from a terminal without an interactive session, as claude plugin marketplace add kerryback/skills and claude plugin install finance-data@kerryback-skills.