# CoinDesk agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

> Ready-made CoinDesk playbooks for AI agents: summarise recent crypto news from CoinDesk with AI, review derivatives positioning with AI, analyse historical crypto prices from CoinDesk OHLCV data. Free SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or one click in RevampKey.

## Skills

- [Use CoinDesk market data well with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/coindesk/skills/essentials.md): 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.
- [Summarise recent crypto news from CoinDesk with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/coindesk/skills/crypto-news-digest.md): 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.
- [Review derivatives positioning with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/coindesk/skills/derivatives-positioning-review.md): 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.
- [Analyse historical crypto prices from CoinDesk OHLCV data](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/coindesk/skills/historical-price-analysis.md): 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.
- [Market snapshot brief from live CoinDesk data](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/coindesk/skills/market-snapshot-brief.md): 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.

## Install

- RevampKey: connect CoinDesk at https://revampkey.com/marketplace/coindesk; the skills come with it.
- Any Agent Skills tool, into the current project:

```bash
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
```

### 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.

MCP setup guide: https://revampkey.com/marketplace/coindesk.md