Xbrlkit

Work with XBRL filings above Arelle: fetch a filing, parse it once into a neutral typed model, and project that model into whichever portable representation you need — or hand it one of those representations and get the model back.

  EDGAR ───────────┐
  filings.xbrl.org ├──▶ Arelle ──▶ XbrlModel ──┬──▶ holon.jsonld    (RDF / JSON-LD)
  XBRL zip / iXBRL ┘                 ▲         ├──▶ TAVI            (compiled model)
                                     │         ├──▶ xBRL-JSON       (OIM)
                   holon, TAVI ──────┘         └──▶ property graph  (parquet, .lbug)

                   primary HTML ──▶ xbrlkit.text ──▶ sections (text blocks, Items, tables)

                   holon, TAVI ──▶ xbrlkit view ──▶ the report, rendered in a browser

                   any of the above ──▶ xbrlkit serve ──▶ MCP client (18 shaped tools)

Three ways in — the SEC, everyone else through filings.xbrl.org, and the filing itself: an XBRL package or archive (.zip), an iXBRL document (.htm), a bare instance (.xml), a filing directory, or an http(s) URL to any of them. Nothing about the middle of this requires EDGAR, or a regulator at all — a report that was never filed with anybody parses like one that was.

Four projections out, and two of those read back, so a report that was never an SEC filing gets the same treatment. A fifth surface, the filing's text, reads the primary HTML directly and needs neither Arelle nor the network. And xbrlkit view puts a filing on screen.

It is also a local MCP server. The package stands alone — a library and a CLI — but xbrlkit serve holds filings in memory and exposes them to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client through eighteen shaped tools, which makes reading a filing a conversation instead of a script: ask for a statement, the concepts behind a phrase, what foots to a subtotal, a segment breakdown, an exhibit, or a regex across the prose. Nothing is indexed and no database sits behind it — every answer is read from the filing in memory, on your machine. What you can ask it →

Arelle stays the parser — nobody should reimplement DTS resolution. What it does not give you is anything ergonomic to hold: ModelXbrl is a large mutable object graph tied to a controller you have to close. XbrlModel is the answer to that — stateless, single-filing, lossless, and the waist every projection hangs off.

The one architectural rule: everything goes through XbrlModel. A feature that reaches into Arelle's ModelXbrl directly is bypassing the waist, and that is the change that turns a kit into a junk drawer.

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