coinmarketcap

coinmarketcap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Vo1ganin/crypto-claude-skills. It costs 183 tokens per session (2,309 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to using the CoinMarketCap Pro API, a service that provides cryptocurrency prices, listings, market data, exchange information, and related metrics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve current or historical crypto data, market indicators, exchange or decentralised-exchange data, token listings, airdrops, or sentiment information.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right endpoint, estimate and control API credit use, and handle results consistently.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to retrieve current or historical crypto data, market indicators, exchange or decentralised-exchange data, token listings, airdrops, or sentiment information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vo1ganin/crypto-claude-skills/coinmarketcap
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 Vo1ganin/crypto-claude-skills --skill coinmarketcap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vo1ganin/crypto-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 183 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,309 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 $0.00183 $0.02309
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.01154
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00462
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00231

Measured 12d ago against content hash a4d970658da1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coinmarketcap 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (references/examples/fetch_prices_batch.py, references/examples/global_dashboard.py, references/examples/historical_ohlcv.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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 -H "X-CMC_PRO_API_KEY: $CMC_API_KEY" \
skills/coinmarketcap/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CoinMarketCap Skill

Reference files:


🚨 Rule #1: credits, not requests

CoinMarketCap meters by credits, not by request count. The formula is:

credits_per_call = max(1, ceil(data_points_returned / 100))

Where data_points ≈ rows × columns × (1 + extra_convert_currencies).

Cheap calls (1 credit):

  • Up to 100 cryptos on quotes/latest
  • Up to 200 cryptos on listings/latest
  • Any single-token lookup (map, info, pools)
  • global-metrics, key/info, fiat/map

Expensive calls:

  • listings/latest?limit=5000 = 25 credits (verified)
  • ohlcv/historical with many points × many cryptos = points / 100
  • market-pairs/latest with 500+ pairs
  • Adding convert=USD,EUR,GBP → +1 credit per extra currency

Always check status.credit_count in response and log it.

🚨 Rule #2: budget thresholds (applied per call)

Estimated credits Action
< 50 Proceed silently
50–200 Announce cost + reason before calling
> 200 STOP. Propose alternative (narrower limit, targeted id list, cached data, different endpoint). Execute only with approval.

For batch jobs (N calls): threshold applied to total. 100 × 2 credits = 200 → announce. 100 × 5 = 500 → stop.

Check budget via GET /v1/key/info (free, 0 credits) before big sessions.

🚨 Rule #3: use CMC IDs, not symbols

Symbols collide (BTC might point to any of several tokens), can change, and break over time. CMC IDs are stable numeric identifiers.

Always:

  1. Resolve symbols/names once via /v1/cryptocurrency/map
  2. Cache the ID → (symbol, name) mapping on your side
  3. Use IDs for all subsequent /quotes/*, /ohlcv/*, /info calls

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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 · 215 lines · 183 tokens per session scan A a4d970658da1

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coinmarketcap is a skill published in the GitHub repository Vo1ganin/crypto-claude-skills (2 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 183 tokens to every session and 2,309 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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