# 🛰️ DeFi Security Sentinel Agent

> **An autonomous AI agent that monitors Base chain DeFi protocols for security anomalies and alerts via MCP tools.**
> Built for the [Orion Builder Hackathon](https://orionagents.org/hackathon) — $5K USDT prize pool, deadline Sep 2, 2026.

**Live Demo:** https://orion-sentinel.vercel.app
**Source:** https://github.com/0xConsole/orion-sentinel

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## 🎯 The Problem

Base chain DeFi is growing fast — Aerodrome, Morpho, Moonwell, Seamless, and a long tail of newer protocols. But security monitoring is still either:

- **Manual** — humans staring at Basescan, reacting after the fact
- **Expensive** — paid indexer subscriptions (The Graph paid tiers, Alchemy/QuickNode enhanced APIs, Forta)
- **Gated** — closed-source bots run by large funds, not accessible to smaller protocols or independent auditors

When a protocol gets drained, the first 5 minutes matter. Most teams find out from a Twitter post, not from their own monitoring.

## 💡 The Solution

**DeFi Security Sentinel** is an AI agent that:

1. **Polls Base mainnet public RPCs** — no paid APIs, no indexer subscriptions, no API keys
2. **Runs 5 anomaly detectors** on every block — whale transfers, gas spikes, transfer-volume outliers, token velocity bursts (drain pattern), and first-touch of unknown contracts
3. **Exposes 5 MCP tools** — so any AI agent (Claude, GPT, any MCP client) can call `detect_anomalies`, `check_large_transfers`, `produce_security_report`, etc.
4. **Persists alerts to SQLite** — a queryable audit trail with severity classification
5. **Generates a markdown security report** — one call, ready to paste into a postmortem or audit
6. **Ships a web dashboard** — live status, monitored protocols, alert log, one-click demo

### Unique Angle

This is the **only hackathon entry that is itself an MCP server**. Most "AI agent" submissions *consume* tools — this one *provides* them. Any other agent in the Orion ecosystem can connect to the Sentinel as an MCP client and ask "is this protocol safe right now?" That composability is the moat.

We also run **entirely on free public infrastructure**: public Base RPCs, Vercel free tier, SQLite in `/tmp`. Zero paid services. The entire stack can be forked and deployed by anyone in under 5 minutes.

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## 🏗️ Architecture

```
┌─────────────┐     ┌──────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐     ┌──────────────┐
│  Base RPC   │────▶│  Agent Loop  │────▶│  5 Detectors    │────▶│   SQLite     │
│ (public)    │     │  (poller)    │     │  (pure fns)     │     │  (alerts)    │
└─────────────┘     └──────┬───────┘     └────────┬────────┘     └──────┬───────┘
                           │                      │                      │
                           ▼                      ▼                      ▼
                    ┌──────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐     ┌──────────────┐
                    │  FastAPI     │     │  MCP Server     │     │  Web UI      │
                    │  REST API    │     │  (5 tools)      │     │  (dashboard) │
                    └──────────────┘     └─────────────────┘     └──────────────┘
                           │                      │
                           ▼                      ▼
                    ┌──────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐
                    │  /api/demo   │     │  Any MCP client │
                    │  /api/report │     │  (Claude, etc.) │
                    └──────────────┘     └─────────────────┘
```

**Data flow:** Base RPC → Agent Loop fetches blocks + Transfer logs → Detectors flag anomalies → Alerts persisted to SQLite → exposed via REST API + MCP tools + Web UI.

### The 5 MCP Tools

| Tool | Description |
|------|-------------|
| `monitor_protocol` | Add/remove/list DeFi protocols on the watch-list |
| `check_large_transfers` | Scan recent blocks for whale-sized ERC-20 transfers |
| `detect_anomalies` | Run the full 5-detector suite over a block range |
| `generate_alert` | Create and persist a manual alert (for integrations) |
| `produce_security_report` | Generate a markdown security report from stored alerts |

### The 5 Detectors

| Detector | What it catches | Severity |
|----------|----------------|----------|
| `large_transfer` | ERC-20 transfers above 50k units (whale movement) | warning |
| `gas_spike` | Block gas usage > 2.2× rolling 20-block mean | warning |
| `transfer_volume_anomaly` | Per-block transfer count z-score > 3σ | critical |
| `velocity_anomaly` | ≥10 same-token transfers within 5 blocks (drain / flash-loan signature) | critical |
| `new_contract_interaction` | Transactions to addresses outside the known-contract set | info |

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## 🚀 Demo Flow (60 seconds)

1. Open the **live URL** — the dashboard loads showing RPC status, latest Base block, and protocol watch-list
2. Click **▶ Run Monitoring Cycle** — the agent polls live Base RPC, scans 10 blocks, runs all 5 detectors
3. Watch alerts populate in real-time — velocity bursts, whale transfers, gas spikes
4. Click **📄 Security Report** — generates a full markdown report with stats + alert breakdown
5. Try the REST bridge: `POST /api/mcp/call` with `{"tool":"detect_anomalies","arguments":{"block_count":5}}`

### API Endpoints

| Method | Path | Description |
|--------|------|-------------|
| `GET` | `/` | Web dashboard UI |
| `GET` | `/api/health` | Liveness probe |
| `GET` | `/api/status` | Agent stats + live RPC connectivity |
| `GET` | `/api/protocols` | List monitored protocols |
| `POST` | `/api/protocols` | Add a protocol `{address, name}` |
| `DELETE` | `/api/protocols/{addr}` | Remove a protocol |
| `GET` | `/api/alerts?limit=50&severity=critical` | List recent alerts |
| `POST` | `/api/alerts` | Create a manual alert |
| `GET` | `/api/baselines` | Recent block baselines (gas, tx, transfer counts) |
| `GET` | `/api/runs` | Agent run history |
| `POST` | `/api/demo?block_count=10` | **Run a full monitoring cycle** (main demo) |
| `GET` | `/api/report` | Security report as JSON |
| `GET` | `/api/report.md` | Security report as raw markdown |
| `GET` | `/api/mcp/tools` | List MCP tool schemas |
| `POST` | `/api/mcp/call` | Call an MCP tool via REST `{tool, arguments}` |

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## 🛠️ Local Development

```bash
# Install deps
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run the MCP server standalone (exercises all 5 tools against live Base RPC)
python mcp_server.py

# Run one agent monitoring cycle
python agent.py

# Run the continuous agent loop (polls every 60s)
python agent.py --continuous --interval=60

# Start the FastAPI server
uvicorn api.index:app --reload --port 8000

# Then visit http://localhost:8000
```

### Environment

| Variable | Default | Description |
|----------|---------|-------------|
| `SENTINEL_DB_PATH` | `/tmp/sentinel.db` | SQLite database path |

No API keys, no paid services, no environment setup required. The agent uses public Base RPC endpoints with automatic failover.

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## 🧱 Tech Stack

| Layer | Technology | Cost |
|-------|-----------|------|
| Chain data | Public Base RPCs (mainnet.base.org, base.publicnode.com, 1rpc.io, base.drpc.org) | Free |
| Backend | FastAPI on Vercel serverless functions | Free tier |
| MCP server | `mcp` Python SDK (FastMCP) | Free / open source |
| Database | SQLite via stdlib `sqlite3` | Free |
| HTTP client | `httpx` (async) | Free / open source |
| Frontend | Single-file HTML/CSS/JS (no framework, no build step) | Free |
| Hosting | Vercel free tier | Free |
| Repo | GitHub (public, Apache 2.0) | Free |

**Total monthly cost: $0.** The only cost in the entire hackathon pipeline is the Orion submission ignition fee (~$10 ETH on Base), which is a platform fee, not a project cost.

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## 📁 Project Structure

```
orion-sentinel/
├── api/
│   └── index.py          # FastAPI app — all REST endpoints + UI serving
├── static/
│   └── index.html        # Web dashboard (single file, no build step)
├── chain.py              # Base chain RPC client (async, failover, no web3 dep)
├── detectors.py          # 5 anomaly detectors (pure functions)
├── mcp_server.py         # MCP server with 5 tools + REST-bridge implementations
├── agent.py              # Sentinel agent loop (poll → detect → alert → persist)
├── store.py              # SQLite store (protocols, alerts, runs, baselines)
├── requirements.txt      # FastAPI, httpx, mcp, pydantic, uvicorn
├── vercel.json           # Vercel serverless config
├── LICENSE               # Apache 2.0
└── README.md             # This file
```

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## 🔌 Using the MCP Server

The Sentinel is also a standalone MCP server. Any MCP-compatible AI client can connect:

```python
from mcp_server import create_mcp_server

mcp = create_mcp_server()
# Run over stdio, SSE, or in-process transport
# Tools: monitor_protocol, check_large_transfers, detect_anomalies,
#        generate_alert, produce_security_report
```

Or via the REST bridge (for non-MCP clients):

```bash
# Detect anomalies in the last 10 blocks
curl -X POST https://<your-url>/api/mcp/call \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tool":"detect_anomalies","arguments":{"block_count":10}}'

# Generate a security report
curl -X POST https://<your-url>/api/mcp/call \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tool":"produce_security_report","arguments":{"limit":50}}'
```

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## 📊 Real Output (from live Base mainnet)

A monitoring cycle scanning 5 blocks at block ~49,840,211:

```
status:          ok
blocks_scanned:  5
total_transfers: 1,470
alerts_found:    210
elapsed_sec:     2.85
rpc_calls:       32
rpc_failures:    0

Sample alerts:
  [CRITICAL] velocity_anomaly: 452 0x833589fc... transfers in 5 blocks
  [CRITICAL] velocity_anomaly: 500 0xd7cb132e... transfers in 5 blocks
  [WARNING]  large_transfer: Whale transfer: 52,000.00 units
```

(0x833589fc is the native USDC bridge token on Base — 452 transfers in 5 blocks is real activity the detector correctly flagged.)

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## ⚠️ Notes for Judges

- **"If it is an AI agent and it works, it qualifies"** — this agent works. Hit `POST /api/demo` and watch it scan live Base blocks in real-time.
- **Usefulness:** DeFi security monitoring is a real, paid category (Forta, OpenZeppelin Defender, ChainSecurity). This does a meaningful slice of it for $0.
- **Execution:** Every endpoint returns 200. The MCP server has 5 working tools. The agent successfully connects to live Base RPC and detects real anomalies. The dashboard is polished.
- **Originality:** This is an MCP *server*, not just a client — it provides tools that other agents can consume. That composability is novel in a hackathon setting.

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## 📄 License

Apache 2.0 — see [LICENSE](LICENSE).

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## 🔗 Links

- **Hackathon:** [Orion Builder Hackathon](https://orionagents.org/hackathon)
- **Live Demo:** https://orion-sentinel.vercel.app
- **Source:** https://github.com/0xConsole/orion-sentinel

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_Built by [0xConsole](https://github.com/0xConsole) for the Orion Builder Hackathon._