CoinDesk agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

5 ready-made playbooks that teach an AI agent how to do real CoinDesk work: which tools to call, what to check first, and when to stop and ask you.

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Connect CoinDesk once and all 5 skills install themselves and stay up to date. Mac, Windows and Linux.

All 5 CoinDesk skills

Each skill is one job. You ask in plain words and the agent loads the skill that matches, then follows its steps.

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Use CoinDesk market data well with AI

Guides your AI assistant to pick the right CoinDesk market family (spot, futures, options, onchain or news), keep results small and report timestamps and venues. The connector is read-only and never places trades.

Use it when

You want current prices, candles or order book data from CoinDesk
You are not sure whether a question is about spot, futures or options
CoinDesk returns empty results or an access error and you need to know why

Tools it uses

fetch_spot_instruments
fetch_spot_tick
fetch_spot_ohlcv
fetch_index_tick
fetch_index_ohlcv
fetch_futures_instruments
fetch_futures_tick
fetch_futures_ohlcv
fetch_futures_oi_tick
fetch_futures_fr_tick
fetch_futures_oi_ohlcv
fetch_futures_fr_ohlcv
fetch_options_instruments
fetch_options_tick
fetch_options_oi_tick
fetch_options_ohlcv
fetch_options_oi_ohlcv
fetch_spot_toplist
fetch_news
fetch_spot_trades

Example

What's the current price of Bitcoin on Coinbase, and how does it compare with the BTC-USD index?

Coinbase BTC-USD last traded at 64,210 at 14:05 UTC, about 0.1% above the index reading taken at the same time. That gap is normal for a single venue against a blended reference. This is read-only market data, so no order was placed.

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Read-only1 CoinDesk tools

Summarise recent crypto news from CoinDesk with AI

Pulls recent CoinDesk news for a chosen window and subject, then groups it by asset and theme, ranks by significance and checks any price link before claiming a cause. It is read-only and does not change anything in your account.

Use it when

You want a daily or weekly digest of crypto news
You want to know what was reported about one asset this week
You are asking whether a price move had a news trigger

Tools it uses

fetch_news

Example

Give me a digest of CoinDesk crypto news from the last seven days, grouped by asset, and tell me whether anything lines up with the BTC drop on Tuesday.

Digest for 9 to 15 March, 14 items reviewed, 9 included. Top story: a regulator's enforcement notice against an exchange (CoinDesk, 11 March, high significance). Tuesday's BTC move started before the BTC-related headline was published, so the market link is probably unrelated. Two sponsored token launch pieces are labelled as promotional.

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Review derivatives positioning with AI

Reads futures and options open interest, funding rates, orderbook depth and trade flow together to show how leveraged positioning looks, not just where price went. It only fetches market data and never places or changes an order.

Use it when

You want to know whether longs or shorts are crowded on a perpetual before a move
Funding rates are high or negative and you need to judge how fragile the position is
You are assessing liquidation or squeeze risk on an asset across a venue

Tools it uses

fetch_futures_instruments
fetch_futures_oi_tick
fetch_futures_oi_ohlcv
fetch_futures_fr_tick
fetch_futures_fr_ohlcv
fetch_futures_trades
fetch_options_oi_tick
fetch_options_oi_ohlcv
fetch_options_instruments

Example

Is BTC crowded on the long side on the major perpetual venues right now?

On the main BTC perpetual, open interest has risen over the last 7 days while price is up, and funding has held positive and near the top of its 30-day range. Orderbook depth on the bid side is thinner than the ask side, and taker buying has been the larger share of recent volume. Read together, this points to crowded longs that would be vulnerable to a pullback. Confidence is medium because I checked one venue; the others were not read.

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Read-only4 CoinDesk tools

Analyse historical crypto prices from CoinDesk OHLCV data

Builds a time-series view of spot, index, futures or options prices over a chosen window, checks the candles for gaps and contract changes, and compares assets on a fair basis. Read-only, so it never changes anything.

Use it when

You want to know how an asset moved over the last quarter or year
You need volatility or drawdown figures for a set window
You want to compare two coins on a rebased chart

Tools it uses

fetch_spot_ohlcv
fetch_index_ohlcv
fetch_futures_ohlcv
fetch_options_ohlcv

Example

How did BTC-USD on Coinbase move over the last 90 days, and what was its volatility?

Over the 90 days from 1 March to 30 May (UTC, daily candles, 90 periods), the close rose from 61,200 to 67,850, a return of +10.9%. The largest drawdown was -18.4%, from a peak on 9 April to a trough on 24 April. Annualised volatility on daily log returns was 48%. The series has no gaps, so these figures are complete for the window.

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Read-only4 CoinDesk tools

Market snapshot brief from live CoinDesk data

Pulls current crypto prices and venue rankings across exchanges and returns a dated, timestamped snapshot, with stale or inconsistent quotes flagged. It is read-only and does not explain price moves.

Use it when

You want the current price of an asset across several exchanges in one table.
You need the top trading pairs by volume right now for a morning brief.
You want to check whether a price gap between venues is real or a quote-currency mix-up.

Tools it uses

fetch_spot_instruments
fetch_spot_tick
fetch_index_tick
fetch_spot_toplist

Example

Give me a snapshot of BTC and ETH prices on Coinbase and Binance right now, and the top spot pairs by volume.

Snapshot as of 14:05 UTC. BTC on Coinbase (BTC-USD) last 64,210, bid/ask 64,205 / 64,215, tick at 14:04:58. ETH on Coinbase (ETH-USD) last 3,412. Binance quotes are USDT, so I kept them in separate rows. Toplist by 24h volume: BTC-USDT on Binance ranks first. One Binance ETH quote was 6 minutes old, so I excluded it and flagged it.

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RevampKey adds the skills when you connect CoinDesk, updates them for you and removes them when you disconnect.

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How CoinDesk skills work

Connect CoinDesk
The CoinDesk MCP server gives the agent its tools.
Ask in plain words
“Give me a digest of CoinDesk crypto news from the last seven days, grouped by asset, and tell me whether anything lines up with the BTC drop on Tuesday.” Each SKILL.md says when it applies, so only the one that fits is loaded.
Approve any change
The agent calls the tools in order, checks its work, and shows you any change before it makes it.

How to install CoinDesk skills

In RevampKey the skills install themselves when you connect CoinDesk. In other tools each skill is one folder with a SKILL.md file, and you also need the CoinDesk MCP server connected there.

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Ask in plain language, for example “Give me a digest of CoinDesk crypto news from the last seven days, grouped by asset, and tell me whether anything lines up with the BTC drop on Tuesday.”
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for s in essentials crypto-news-digest derivatives-positioning-review historical-price-analysis market-snapshot-brief; do curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/coindesk-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/coindesk/skills/$s/SKILL.md done
Other tools

Into this project’s .claude/skills folder

Connect the CoinDesk MCP server in Claude Code.

Run this in your project folder to add all 5 skills:

for s in essentials crypto-news-digest derivatives-positioning-review historical-price-analysis market-snapshot-brief; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/coindesk-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/coindesk/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Give me a digest of CoinDesk crypto news from the last seven days, grouped by asset, and tell me whether anything lines up with the BTC drop on Tuesday.”

Into the shared .agents/skills folder

Connect the CoinDesk MCP server in Cursor.

Run this in your project folder to add all 5 skills:

for s in essentials crypto-news-digest derivatives-positioning-review historical-price-analysis market-snapshot-brief; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/coindesk-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/coindesk/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Give me a digest of CoinDesk crypto news from the last seven days, grouped by asset, and tell me whether anything lines up with the BTC drop on Tuesday.”

Into the shared .agents/skills folder

Connect the CoinDesk MCP server in Codex.

Run this in your project folder to add all 5 skills:

for s in essentials crypto-news-digest derivatives-positioning-review historical-price-analysis market-snapshot-brief; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/coindesk-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/coindesk/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Give me a digest of CoinDesk crypto news from the last seven days, grouped by asset, and tell me whether anything lines up with the BTC drop on Tuesday.”

Into the shared .agents/skills folder

Connect the CoinDesk MCP server in VS Code.

Run this in your project folder to add all 5 skills:

for s in essentials crypto-news-digest derivatives-positioning-review historical-price-analysis market-snapshot-brief; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/coindesk-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/coindesk/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Give me a digest of CoinDesk crypto news from the last seven days, grouped by asset, and tell me whether anything lines up with the BTC drop on Tuesday.”

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One click when you connect CoinDesk
Updated for you when a skill improves
Removed when you disconnect
The MCP server is set up for you
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CoinDesk skills FAQ

What is a CoinDesk agent skill?

A SKILL.md file: a short playbook an AI agent loads when your request matches it. Each CoinDesk skill describes one job, which CoinDesk tools to use in which order, what to check first and when to stop and ask you.

Do the CoinDesk skills change anything on their own?

5 of the 5 only read. The others tell the agent to show you the change and wait for a yes before it creates, edits or deletes anything in CoinDesk.

Which tools can use these skills?

Any agent that reads the open Agent Skills format: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code with Copilot and RevampKey. In RevampKey they are attached when you connect CoinDesk; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

Do I need the CoinDesk MCP server too?

Yes. The skills tell the agent how to do the work; the CoinDesk MCP server gives it the tools to do it. The CoinDesk MCP setup guide covers every client.

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All 5 CoinDesk skills

Use CoinDesk market data well with AI

Use it when

Tools it uses

Summarise recent crypto news from CoinDesk with AI

Use it when

Tools it uses

Review derivatives positioning with AI

Use it when

Tools it uses

Analyse historical crypto prices from CoinDesk OHLCV data

Use it when

Tools it uses

Market snapshot brief from live CoinDesk data

Use it when

Tools it uses

Get all 5 without copying a file

How CoinDesk skills work

How to install CoinDesk skills

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In RevampKey

Copy into your project

CoinDesk skills FAQ

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