Setup guide · reviewed June 2026

How to connect Hermes to Robinhood MCP.

Connecting Hermes to Robinhood's official MCP takes about 15 minutes: add the connector endpoint, approve the link in the Robinhood app, audit which tools Hermes can actually call, and keep the first session read-only. The same four steps work in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, and Cursor.

Step 1: Add the connector

Add Robinhood's MCP endpoint https://agent.robinhood.com/mcp/trading in Hermes' connector settings (MCP servers), then start a fresh session so the Robinhood tools load.

Step 2: Approve in the Robinhood app

Robinhood sends an approval prompt to its mobile app. Approve it there. That is the entire auth flow. If an agent, a site, or a "helper" ever asks for your Robinhood password, 2FA code, or session token, stop. The official flow never needs them.

Step 3: Audit the tool surface

Before trusting any workflow, make Hermes prove what it can do:

List every Robinhood MCP tool you can call, sorted into read-only tools and tools that change my account. Which accounts can you see, and which one is the Agentic account?

As of June 2026 you should see account, portfolio, quote, tradability, search, watchlist, and equity order review/place/cancel tools. Option order tools are documented but not visible in most clients yet. Trades only execute in the dedicated Agentic account, which starts unfunded.

Step 4: Keep the first session read-only

Run a portfolio audit, pull quotes on names you hold, and review your watchlists. No orders in session one. The point is to learn what the connection can do before money is involved.

What most setups get wrong

Trusting that a tool exists instead of auditing. Agents improvise when a tool is missing, and improvisation near a brokerage is the failure mode.
No written risk policy, so every session reinvents its own rules.
No journal, so there is no record of what the agent did or declined to do.

That structure is exactly what we sell. The $29 Setup Playbook is this page expanded to 73 pages with troubleshooting for every blocked state. The $99 Equities Bundle adds the full operating desk: daily checks, public-data research boards, an approval queue, and audit journaling. Six core skills are free on GitHub.

Common questions

Does this work with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, and Cursor too?

Yes. Any MCP-capable client follows the same four steps; only the connector settings screen differs.

Can Hermes place trades after connecting?

Only equity orders, only in the dedicated Agentic account, only through Robinhood's official order review, and only with money you moved there.

Is this affiliated with Robinhood?

No. SherwoodCraft is an independent product for self-directed users.

See the Equities Bundle What is Robinhood MCP?

Setup guides: Claude · ChatGPT · Codex · Cursor · OpenClaw · Hermes

Not investment advice. Sources: Robinhood Agentic Trading documentation and a hands-on tool-surface audit, reviewed June 2026.