help

What it does

Long-form guidance, in topics. Call it with no argument for the essentials and the topic list, or with topic for one of them. Reach for it when you are unsure which tool answers a question, whether the data supports the question at all, or what an error means. It returns no company data and costs nothing but the call.

help is on the free tier. A free account gets 12 agent calls per 16 hours and this is one of them; Pro is uncounted. The website's own screening allowance is counted separately.

Arguments, returns and a worked call

Everything below is generated from the same registry entry the MCP server and /openapi.json are generated from, so this page cannot name an argument that does not exist. The two examples are the same call, once over each transport.

> curl -s https://crushthemarket.com/api/v1/help \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CTM_KEY" \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{"topic":"filings"}'

{  "jsonrpc": "2.0",  "id": 1,  "method": "tools/call",  "params": {    "name": "help",    "arguments": {      "topic": "filings"    }  }}

Related tools

• —`explain_metric` — What one screening criterion means, and how to filter on it.
• —`get_company` — Profile, the six scores, and the plain-English readings for one symbol.

Calling help

1. 1.Register free — an email address, no card — then create a key under API Keys on your account page. Your email address has to be verified first, and the key is shown once.
2. 2.Using a chat client that speaks MCP? The MCP guide is one paste. Anything else takes bearer auth, the error codes and the limits from the REST guide.
3. 3.Make the call above with your own key in it.

Every successful response carries as_of, source, a quota block saying how much of the allowance is left, and the same disclaimer this page ends on.