alchemy-api

alchemy-api is a skill for Claude Code from alchemyplatform/alchemy-claude-plugin. It costs 160 tokens per session (3,681 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of alchemy-api, MIT.

A guide for adding Alchemy, a blockchain data service, to application code such as a backend, script, worker, or decentralised app using an API key.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add blockchain, token, NFT, transfer, price, portfolio, simulation, webhook, Solana, and related Alchemy data services to software that runs outside the agent session.
Why use it?
It explains how to connect an application to Alchemy services instead of having to design the integration from scratch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the alchemy plugin — 2 skills, 9 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to add blockchain, token, NFT, transfer, price, portfolio, simulation, webhook, Solana, and related Alchemy data services to software that runs outside the agent session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alchemyplatform/alchemy-claude-plugin/alchemy-api
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add alchemyplatform/alchemy-claude-plugin --skill alchemy-api
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alchemyplatform/alchemy-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install alchemy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 9 commands, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,681 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 98% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00160 $0.03681
Opus 5.5 $0.00064 $0.01472
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00736
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00368

Measured 14d ago against content hash 09f42f857c38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alchemy-api scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 14d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s https://eth-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/YOUR_API_KEY \
Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to alchemy-api — 95 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/alchemy/skills/alchemy-api/SKILL.md · 229 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Alchemy API (with API Key)

Reference and integration guide for wiring Alchemy APIs into application code using a standard API key. This file alone is enough to ship a basic integration; the references/ directory contains deeper coverage of every product surface.

When to use this skill

Use alchemy-api when all of the following are true:

  • The user is wiring Alchemy into application code (server, backend, dApp, worker, script) that runs outside the current agent session
  • They have, or are willing to create, an Alchemy API key (free at dashboard.alchemy.com)

This is the preferred app-integration path for normal server/backend usage.

When to use a different skill

Situation Use this skill instead
Live agent work in this session (queries, admin, on-machine automation); no API key needed, sign in with OAuth alchemy-mcp

Do not use this skill to run ad-hoc live queries from inside the agent session — that's the alchemy-mcp path. This skill is for code that ships.

Mandatory preflight gate

Before writing application code or making any network call:

  1. Confirm the user is building application code (not asking the agent to run a live query). If the user is asking for live work, redirect to alchemy-mcp.
  2. Check $ALCHEMY_API_KEY is set without printing it (e.g. [ -n "$ALCHEMY_API_KEY" ] && echo set || echo missing).
  3. If $ALCHEMY_API_KEY is unset or empty, take the first of these that applies:
    • For live work in this session, use the alchemy-mcp skill (the bundled Alchemy MCP server signs in with OAuth, no API key needed), or
    • For application code, tell the user they can create a free API key at https://dashboard.alchemy.com/ and copy it into ALCHEMY_API_KEY.

You MUST NOT call any keyless or public fallback (including .../v2/demo) unless the user explicitly asks for that endpoint. No public RPC endpoints (publicnode, llamarpc, cloudflare-eth, etc.) as a fallback.

Read the full file on GitHub · 229 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 14d ago Changed · -52 lines · -3 tokens per session 09f42f857c38
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 281 lines · 163 tokens per session scan A 549eb7d87b67

Subscribe to this mod's changes

alchemy-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository alchemyplatform/alchemy-claude-plugin (7 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 3,681 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 98% identical to alchemy-api, differing in 95 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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