Central Bank of Iran

For AI agents

• What: unofficial MCP server (model context protocol) for cbi.ir: official exchange rates (about 48 currencies, archive back to 1383), inflation by month and year, weekly interbank/standing-facility rates, news and announcements, liquidity statements, reports (Economic Trends, monthly monetary statistics, annual review).
• Install: uvx cbi-mcp or claude mcp add cbi -- uvx cbi-mcp. Transport: stdio. Needs uv (Python 3.10+).
• Auth: none. Optional CBI_MCP_PROXY (HTTP proxy URL); system proxy settings are ignored.
• Access: read-only, no confirmation needed before calling any tool.
• Tools: 11, all prefixed cb_. Typical sequences: cb_exchange_rates; cb_rate_history; cb_inflation; cb_news -> cb_news_item; cb_liquidity; cb_statistics; cb_bond_auctions; cb_policy_rates + cb_open_market.
• Use when: the user asks for the official dollar/euro/dirham rate on a day, how a rate moved, Iran's inflation, interest or interbank rates, liquidity growth, or what the central bank announced.
• Do not use when: the user wants the free-market (bazaar) rate, which the CBI does not publish, or a series from the CBI time-series database (tsd.cbi.ir did not answer when this was built).
• Output: compact JSON. Rates are rials per currency unit (per_units: JPY 100, KRW 1000...). Dates in answers are Jalali; arguments accept Jalali (1404/01/01) or Gregorian (2025-03-21). Text is Persian.
• Machine-readable: server.json.

Why

The Central Bank's site is a classic ASP.NET website: no API, one rate table per date, inflation behind a year dropdown, liquidity buried in news and Excel files. cbi-mcp reads those pages for the agent:

You: What was the official dollar rate on 1 Farvardin 1404, and what is it now?

Agent: calls cb_exchange_rates(date="1404/01/01", currencies=["USD"]) and cb_exchange_rates(currencies=["USD"])

579,503 rials on 1404/01/01 and 1,871,664 rials on 1405/08/09.

_{Real values read from cbi.ir on 2026-10-31.}

What it can do

• Official exchange rates for a day, today or from the archive, all currencies or a chosen few
• Rate history of one currency: last 7 days in one call, or a sampled series over months or years with total change
• Inflation: the 12-month rate for each month of any year since 1361 plus annual inflation back to 1316
• Policy rates: weekly interbank rate, minimum repo rate and the standing lending/deposit corridor
• News titles, filterable by a word, and the full text of any item
• Liquidity as numbers (liquidity, money, quasi-money, monetary base with yearly growth) from the newest monthly Excel, plus the governor's latest statements
• Monthly statistics tables read from the Excel files: monetary, balance of payments (foreign debt, monthly average dollar in the official, free and preferential markets), fiscal, capital market
• Government sukuk auctions: offered, sold and yield per bond, every week
• Open market operations: the weekly repo auction figures
• Publications with PDF/Excel links: Economic Trends, monthly monetary statistics, annual economic review, interbank market review

Example prompts:

• "What is the CBI's official euro rate today, and how much did it change over the last week?"
• "Show the dollar rate every month since Farvardin 1404."
• "What is Iran's inflation now and how did it move in 1403?"
• "What did the central bank say about liquidity growth recently?"
• نرخ رسمی دلار بانک مرکزی امروز چقدر است؟
• آخرین گزارش نماگرهای اقتصادی را بده.

Quick start

claude mcp add cbi -- uvx cbi-mcp

Any client: command uvx, args ["cbi-mcp"]. Behind a proxy set CBI_MCP_PROXY=http://host:port.

Tools

FAQ

Is this the market rate? No. These are the CBI's official reference rates; the free-market rate is not published there.

Why no time-series search? The bank's series database (tsd.cbi.ir) did not answer from any network tried.

Does it read the Excel/PDF reports? The monthly Excel statistics tables (cb_statistics, cb_liquidity), the weekly repo report and the auction results are read as numbers. Other Excel and PDF reports come back as links.

License

MIT. Unofficial; not affiliated with the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Data belongs to its publisher.

Built by Sepehr Radmard (سپهر رادمرد): github.com/sepehr071 · linkedin.com/in/sepehr-radmard

فارسی

cbi-mcp یک سرور MCP غیررسمی و فقط‌خواندنی برای سایت بانک مرکزی جمهوری اسلامی ایران (cbi.ir) است: نرخ رسمی ارز و تاریخچه آن، نرخ تورم، نرخ‌های سود بازار بین‌بانکی، اخبار و اظهارات نقدینگی و فهرست گزارش‌ها با پیوند دانلود. نیازی به کلید یا حساب نیست. نصب: claude mcp add cbi -- uvx cbi-mcp