# Arelle

> Use this tool when you need to analyze and validate XBRL financial data, extract facts, and navigate taxonomies. Arelle provides 17 tools to solve problems related to financial data analysis, including filing operations and direct SEC EDGAR filing retrieval. It takes XBRL files and ticker or CIK codes as inputs and outputs validated data, extracted facts, and relationship maps.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/arelle-thekinghippopotamus  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/arelle-thekinghippopotamus

## Description

Provides 17 tools for XBRL financial data analysis including filing operations, validation against SEC EFM and EU ESEF standards, fact extraction, taxonomy navigation, relationship mapping, and direct SEC EDGAR filing retrieval by ticker or CIK. Built on top of Arelle, the open-source XBRL-certified processor.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.94
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** maps-location
- **Updated:** 2026-09-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/arelle-thekinghippopotamus)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/thekinghippopotamus/arelle-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "arelle-thekinghippopotamus"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/arelle-thekinghippopotamus` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/arelle-thekinghippopotamus/pull`

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