cmc-api-market

cmc-api-market is a skill for Claude Code from OpenCMC/skills-for-ai-agents-by-CoinMarketCap. It costs 109 tokens per session (1,646 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide for CoinMarketCap’s market-wide cryptocurrency APIs. It covers data such as total market size, Bitcoin dominance, sentiment indexes, historical prices, charts, news, and trending topics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve global market metrics, Fear and Greed history, market-cap and price charts, OHLCV data, trending topics, crypto news, and currency conversions.
Why use it?
It helps identify the right API endpoint for questions about the overall crypto market rather than one token or exchange. It also documents the required API key and request details.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to retrieve global market metrics, Fear and Greed history, market-cap and price charts, OHLCV data, trending topics, crypto news, and currency conversions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/opencmc/skills-for-ai-agents-by-coinmarketcap/cmc-api-market
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 OpenCMC/skills-for-ai-agents-by-CoinMarketCap --skill cmc-api-market
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenCMC/skills-for-ai-agents-by-CoinMarketCap

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,646 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 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 $0.00109 $0.01646
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00823
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00329
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00165

Measured 12d ago against content hash 20fa79246c9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cmc-api-market 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 12d 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 -X GET "https://pro-api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/global-metrics/quotes/latest" \
skills/cmc-api-market/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CoinMarketCap Market API Skill

This skill covers market-wide cryptocurrency data including global metrics, sentiment indicators, market indices, community activity, news content, charting data, and utility endpoints.

Authentication

All requests require the X-CMC_PRO_API_KEY header.

curl -X GET "https://pro-api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/global-metrics/quotes/latest" \
  -H "X-CMC_PRO_API_KEY: your-api-key"

Get your API key at: https://pro.coinmarketcap.com/login

Base URL

https://pro-api.coinmarketcap.com

Common Use Cases

See use-cases.md for goal-based guidance on which endpoint to use:

  1. Get current market sentiment (Fear & Greed)
  2. Get total crypto market cap
  3. Get BTC dominance
  4. Track market cap history
  5. Track Fear & Greed history
  6. Get CMC100 index performance
  7. Compare CMC100 vs CMC20
  8. Get OHLCV candlestick data for charts
  9. Get simple price time series
  10. Get community trending tokens
  11. Get trending discussion topics
  12. Get latest crypto news
  13. Convert currency amounts
  14. Check API usage and limits
  15. Get fiat currency IDs

API Overview

Global Metrics

Endpoint Description Reference
GET /v1/global-metrics/quotes/historical Historical global market metrics global-metrics.md
GET /v1/global-metrics/quotes/latest Latest total market cap, BTC dominance global-metrics.md

Fear and Greed Index

Endpoint Description Reference
GET /v3/fear-and-greed/historical Historical fear/greed values fear-greed.md
GET /v3/fear-and-greed/latest Current market sentiment score fear-greed.md

Market Indices

Endpoint Description Reference
GET /v3/index/cmc100-historical CMC100 index history indices.md
GET /v3/index/cmc100-latest CMC100 current value indices.md
GET /v3/index/cmc20-historical CMC20 index history indices.md
GET /v3/index/cmc20-latest CMC20 current value indices.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 12d ago First seen · 193 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 20fa79246c9f

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cmc-api-market is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenCMC/skills-for-ai-agents-by-CoinMarketCap (67 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 1,646 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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