sports-card-agent: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

sports-card-agent CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from rjexile/sports-card-agent. It costs 509 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python server that gives AI agents sports trading-card information, including prices, player statistics, grading returns, vintage cards and market trends.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check card prices, study market movements, compare grading costs and returns, review NBA, NFL or MLB players, and analyze vintage cards.
Why use it?
It puts card-market and sports data in one place instead of requiring an agent to gather and interpret each source separately.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is rjexile/sports-card-agent's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on sports-card-agent 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 sports-card-agent configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rjexile/sports-card-agent/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rjexile/sports-card-agent

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Opus 5 $0.00254 $0.00254
Sonnet 5 $0.00102 $0.00102
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sports-card-agent CLAUDE.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 12d ago.

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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.

CLAUDE.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Sports Card Agent

What This Is

An MCP server that provides sports trading card data to other AI agents. 9 tools covering pricing, market analysis, grading ROI, investment advice, player stats (NBA/NFL/MLB), vintage card analysis, and trending players.

Architecture

  • Python 3.12 MCP server using FastMCP
  • Runs over stdio protocol
  • eBay Browse API for pricing data (mock fallback when no key)
  • Ball Don't Lie API for player stats across NBA/NFL/MLB (mock fallback)
  • All tools return plain text summaries

Project Structure

  • src/server.py — Main MCP server with all 9 tool definitions
  • src/ebay_client.py — eBay API client with OAuth2 + mock data
  • src/analysis.py — Price trend analysis and arbitrage detection
  • src/player_stats.py — NBA stats (Ball Don't Lie API)
  • src/nfl_stats.py — NFL stats (Ball Don't Lie API)
  • src/mlb_stats.py — MLB stats (Ball Don't Lie API)
  • src/grading.py — Grading ROI calculator (PSA/BGS/SGC)
  • src/advisor.py — Investment advisor (buy/sell/hold)
  • src/trending.py — Trending NBA players watchlist
  • src/vintage.py — Vintage card analysis (40+ iconic sets)
  • run_server.py — Launcher script
  • test_all.py — Full test suite (29 tests)

Key Accounts & Config

  • GitHub: rjexile/sports-card-agent
  • PyPI: sports-card-agent v1.0.0
  • eBay Developer: Registered, waiting for approval (keys go in .env)
  • Ball Don't Lie: Needs free signup at app.balldontlie.io (key goes in .env)

Running

# From venv
python run_server.py

# After pip install
sports-card-agent

Testing

python test_all.py  # 29/29 tests should pass

Revenue Strategy

  • Listed on MCP registries for other agents to discover
  • Phase 1: Free usage to build adoption
  • Phase 2: Monetize via MCPize or similar (85% revenue share)
  • Phase 2: Deploy to VPS for 24/7 availability
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 52 lines · 509 tokens per session scan A e105d0c16487

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sports-card-agent CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rjexile/sports-card-agent (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 509 tokens to every session, about $0.0025 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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