circuit-mcp

Give any AI agent Circuit's real-time Solana data and agent-swarm intelligence as tools — auto-paid per call in CIRC over x402. No API keys, no signup. Add it to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or any agent runtime with one line.

Website · Data API · Circuit SDK · Telegram · X / Twitter

Beta software. circuit-mcp is under active development — expect breaking changes, incomplete features, and rough edges. Paid tools spend real CIRC per call; start with the free tools (or a small spend cap) until you're comfortable with how it behaves.

What it does

A thin Model Context Protocol server over @circuit-llm/data. It exposes Circuit's real-time Solana data as tools any MCP client can call — and auto-pays for them per call in CIRC over x402. Free tools return data directly; paid tools are auto-paid from your wallet, bounded per call and per session. No API keys, no accounts.

The differentiator is the swarm_* tools: live buy/sell/rug signals from Circuit's running trading-agent fleet — data no generic price API has.

Related MCP server: @1ly/mcp-server

Quick Start

Add it to any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, an agent runtime):

// claude_desktop_config.json → "mcpServers"
{ "circuit": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@circuit-llm/mcp"],
    "env": { "CIRCUIT_WALLET": "<base58 secret funded with CIRC>" } } }   // omit → free tools only

Then ask your agent "what's the swarm's consensus on this mint?" or "audit this token for rug risk." The paid tools settle on Solana in ~400ms behind the scenes. Without CIRCUIT_WALLET, the free tools still work.

Tools

Prices are live from circuit_quote (/api/quote); a few endpoints are currently ungated (free).

Configuration

All configuration is via environment variables.

Safety

• Spend is bounded two ways — CIRCUIT_MCP_MAX_SPEND_CIRC per call and CIRCUIT_MCP_MAX_TOTAL_CIRC per process (the drain guard against a looping agent). Set CIRCUIT_TREASURY to pin the payee so a hostile endpoint can't redirect funds.

• Read-only — every tool is a data fetch; none move funds beyond the micropayment.

• No bypass — this package always pays per call; the internal-key bypass is a Circuit-hosted concern, never a user knob (see docs/HOSTING.md).

• Protocol-safe — all logs go to stderr; stdout is reserved for the MCP channel.

How it works

Each paid tool call hits the Circuit Data API: a free endpoint returns data; a paid one answers 402 Payment Required with a CIRC quote. @circuit-llm/data pays the quote from your wallet on Solana and retries — the spend caps and CIRCUIT_TREASURY allow-list bound where and how much. For a hosted deployment (Circuit fronts payment so agents need no wallet), see docs/HOSTING.md.

Develop

git clone https://github.com/Circuit-LLM/MCP && cd MCP
npm install
npm run smoke    # spawn the server via a real MCP client, list tools, exercise the free tools (no spend)
npm start        # run the server over stdio

Built on @circuit-llm/data + @circuit-llm/wallet + the MCP TypeScript SDK.

Part of the Circuit Stack

• circuit-mcp — this repo, Circuit data + swarm intel as x402-paid MCP tools

• circuit-sdk — the TypeScript SDK (x402 · data · wallet · agent · inference)

• circuit-data-api — the x402-gated Solana data aggregator these tools serve

• circuit-agent — the autonomous trading agent behind swarm_feed

• circuitllm.xyz — website and data terminal

License

MIT — see LICENSE.