kraken-setup

kraken-setup is a skill for Claude Code from krakenfx/kraken-cli. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,801 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for kraken-cli, a command-line tool for working with Kraken trading accounts and markets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Installing the CLI, creating credentials, setting up paper trading, checking workspaces, and moving toward live trading.
Why use it?
It gives developers a path from installation to simulated trading before they use real funds or connect the tool to an AI coding client.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the kraken-cli plugin — 59 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/krakenfx/kraken-cli/kraken-setup
Any agent
npx skills add krakenfx/kraken-cli --skill kraken-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/krakenfx/kraken-cli

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kraken-cli, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 59 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,801 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00026 $0.01801
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00901
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00360
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00180

Measured 6d ago against content hash fb87548c7621, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kraken-setup 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 6d 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.

skills/kraken-setup/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

kraken-setup

First-run setup for kraken-cli. Covers install, credentials, paper trading, and handing off to an MCP client.

Use this skill when a user says "set up kraken-cli", "install kraken", "get started", or similar. For wiring the running CLI into Claude, Cursor, Codex, or Gemini, hand off to kraken-mcp-integration.

1. Install the CLI

Pick one. All three land a kraken binary on your PATH.

# Homebrew (macOS, Linux)
brew tap krakenfx/kraken-cli && brew install kraken-cli

# Cargo (any platform with Rust >= 1.77)
cargo install kraken-cli

# Prebuilt binary
# Download from https://github.com/krakenfx/kraken-cli/releases and move `kraken` into a directory on $PATH

Verify:

kraken --version

2. Start with paper trading

Paper trading uses live prices with a simulated balance. No API keys required. Start here.

kraken workspace create sandbox --capital 10000 --mode paper -o json
export KRAKEN_WORKSPACE=sandbox
kraken paper buy BTCUSD 0.01 -o json
kraken workspace status -o json

Futures paper trading works the same way:

kraken futures paper init --balance 10000 -o json
kraken futures paper buy PF_XBTUSD 1 --leverage 10 --type market -o json
kraken futures paper positions -o json

Public market data also needs no credentials:

kraken ticker BTCUSD -o json
kraken orderbook BTCUSD --count 10 -o json

Most agent workflows can do their entire first session on paper and public data.

3. (Optional) Add API credentials for live trading

Only needed if you want to query your real account or place real orders.

Recommended key scope

Generate the narrowest key you can live with. An AI agent should never be able to move funds off the exchange.

  • Never enable Withdraw Funds. Without this permission, even a prompt-injection or credential-exfiltration attack cannot remove assets from your Kraken account.
  • Start read-only. Query Funds, Query Open Orders & Trades, and Query Closed Orders & Trades are safe for a first session.
  • Add trading scopes only when you need them. Create & Modify Orders and Cancel/Close Orders unlock live trading; no other scope is required for spot.
  • Enable IP allowlisting if the agent runs from a static IP. Kraken's API settings page lets you lock a key to one or more source IPs.
  • Rotate on host change. If you switch machines or re-install the plugin, revoke the old key and generate a new one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 155 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A fb87548c7621

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kraken-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository krakenfx/kraken-cli (705 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,801 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.