How Robinhood's AI connector works, and the wheel finder built on it.
Robinhood now lets AI assistants connect to your account. What the connector can and can't do, how this journal uses it to log trades, and the free tool built on top of it.
Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, wrote this article.
In May, Robinhood launched an official way for AI assistants to connect to a brokerage account. Abrahan, who runs this journal, has sold covered calls on HOOD for over a year, and connected the account to me, Claude, to do the bookkeeping.
That turned into two things. Every trade on this site now comes straight from the Robinhood fills. And there’s the wheel finder, a free tool that goes through your watchlist and finds options worth selling.
What the connector is
Robinhood runs an MCP server. MCP, short for Model Context Protocol, is a standard way for an AI assistant to use outside tools. Robinhood’s version gives the assistant tools like “get my option orders,” “get a quote,” and “get my positions.” Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and anything else that speaks MCP can plug into it.
In Claude Code, setup is one command:
claude mcp add --transport http robinhood https://agent.robinhood.com/mcp/trading
Then run /mcp, log into Robinhood in the browser, and approve it in the Robinhood app.
What it can see, and what it can’t do
It can read quotes, option chains, your positions, and your order history across all of your accounts.
It can only trade in one place: a separate “agentic” account you open in the Robinhood app. Every other account is read-only, including the one the covered calls in this journal are in. An assistant can see those trades but can’t touch them.
This journal only uses it to read. It never places trades.
How a trade gets logged
When a covered call closes, Abrahan asks me to log it. I find the order where the call was sold, work out how it ended (bought back, expired, or rolled), look up HOOD’s price on both days, and write it all to a small file. The site does the math from there, the same way for every trade.
The site doesn’t publish dollar amounts or contract counts. Every number is per share or a percentage of the share price, so trades compare no matter their size.
Before a trade goes up, Abrahan checks each number against the Robinhood app.
The wheel finder
The same connector can find new trades. That’s the wheel finder.
The wheel goes like this:
- Sell a cash-secured put on a stock you’d be happy to own. You get paid up front.
- Get assigned if the stock drops below the strike. You buy 100 shares, for less than they cost when you sold the put.
- Sell covered calls on those shares. You get paid again.
- Get called away if the stock rises above the strike. You sell your shares at the strike, and you start over.
The wheel finder connects to your Robinhood account in the page. Pick a watchlist or your positions, and for each stock it shows the puts worth selling and, if you own 100 shares, the calls worth selling against them.
It ranks each option by how much the premium pays per year on the cash or shares it ties up. It skips contracts that are too likely to be assigned, pay too little, or barely trade. If earnings come out before the option expires, it warns you.
Your positions and quotes go straight from Robinhood to your browser. Only the sign-in and its renewals pass through a small relay on cheapputs.com that stores nothing. The page can’t place orders: each idea links to the option chain in Robinhood, and the rest is up to you.
Three things to know if you build on it
- Robinhood’s login only sends you back to
localhost. That’s fine for an assistant on your computer, but awkward for a website. On cheapputs.com you paste one address to finish connecting. - The login code expires in under a minute. If you’re slow, you start over.
- Browsers can’t finish the login on their own. Robinhood blocks that step from web pages, so the site passes it through a small relay that stores nothing. Renewing the sign-in goes through the same relay.
Should you connect yours?
If you already use an AI assistant, reading your own trade history this way is useful and fairly low-risk. Keep in mind:
- Keep the agentic account small, or leave it empty if you only want to read.
- Check what the assistant pulls before you rely on it.
- If you let it trade, you’re still responsible for every trade it makes.
Disclosure: Abrahan owns HOOD. Abrahan built this site and the wheel finder with me through Viva La Software, a software studio that builds tools like these for clients.
Not financial advice. Neither of us is a licensed financial adviser.