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AGENTS.md

kalshi-mcp-server AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from cejor6/kalshi-mcp-server. It costs 14,679 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project guide for a Python server that connects AI coding agents to Kalshi, a prediction-market service where people trade contracts on possible future events. It explains the code layout, login process, request limits, and trading safeguards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn where the main components live, how requests are authenticated and rate-limited, and how market queries, portfolio checks, and trade orders are exposed to an AI agent.
Why use it?
It gives agents and new contributors one place to understand how the project works and how to handle trading operations safely. This reduces confusion when changing or reusing the repository.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is cejor6/kalshi-mcp-server's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on kalshi-mcp-server itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kalshi-mcp-server configures →

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Nothing to install: this file belongs to cejor6/kalshi-mcp-server. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
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Grade A, and why

kalshi-mcp-server AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

AGENTS.md · 1,004 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,004 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent guide

This file is for any agent working on this repo — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider, etc. Conventions live here; tool-specific files (like CLAUDE.md) simply point back to this document.

If you're a human reading this for the first time, it's also a perfectly good architectural overview — start with the "Repo layout" and "How authentication works" sections.


What this project is

A Model Context Protocol server for Kalshi, implemented in Python on top of FastMCP. It speaks the Kalshi REST API (and eventually the WebSocket API) and exposes tools + resources that an LLM agent can use to query markets, inspect a portfolio, and place trades.

The repo is designed to be forked. Conventions, safety controls, and documentation should be useful to anyone who clones the project. Write for a stranger, not for the current owner.


Repo layout

kalshi-mcp-server/
├── src/kalshi_mcp_server/
│   ├── auth.py          RSA-PSS request signer
│   ├── rate_limit.py    Token-bucket limiter (Kalshi's read/write model)
│   ├── config.py        Env loader + prod/trading safety guards
│   ├── safety.py        Order-time controls (size, daily cap, reserve)
│   ├── errors.py        Exception hierarchy
│   ├── cli.py           FastMCP entrypoint + HTTP startup policy
│   ├── oauth.py         GitHub OAuth proxy + identity allowlist middleware
│   ├── http_guard.py    No-auth HTTP: loopback-bind check, Host/Origin guard
│   ├── tools/           MCP tool implementations
│   └── resources/       MCP resource implementations
├── tests/               pytest suite
├── .github/workflows/   CI (tests on PRs), Release (image build on tag)
├── Dockerfile           Multi-stage build, non-root runtime
├── pyproject.toml       Package metadata + ruff + pytest config
├── server.json / .yaml  MCP server registry manifests
├── AGENTS.md            This file
├── CLAUDE.md            Stub pointing here (Claude Code-specific)
├── CLAUDE.local.md      [GITIGNORED] Personal notes for a single dev
└── DEPLOY.md            Self-deployment guide (Pattern A: image-deploy)

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,004 lines

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