What is btse-account-setup?

A setup guide for connecting btse-mcp to BTSE Futures accounts. It explains how to configure API credentials, choose testnet or live trading, and test the connection.

Creating or switching accounts, storing their credentials, verifying access, and diagnosing common authentication or permission errors.

It helps avoid connection failures and keeps test accounts separate from live accounts.

btse-account-setup — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by xbotlive

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent

npx skills add xbotlive/btse-mcp --skill btse-account-setup

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xbotlive/btse-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 943 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00024	$0.00943
Opus 5	$0.00012	$0.00472
Sonnet 5	$0.00005	$0.00189
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00094

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4a1df386ee7d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

btse-account-setup scanned grade B 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 9d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

Credentials are stored encrypted at `~/.config/btse-mcp/accounts.enc` using a Fernet key at `~/.config/btse-mcp/key` (chmod 600 on Unix).

skills/btse-account-setup/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BTSE Account Setup

Getting API Keys

Testnet (start here)

Register at https://testnet.btse.io
Go to Account → API tab → New API
Save the API Key and Passphrase — the passphrase is your api_secret and is shown only once
Set permissions: Read + Trading (add Transfer if needed)

Live

Same steps at https://btse.com

Configuring an Account

# Configure the default account
btse-mcp config

# Configure a named account (e.g. a separate testnet account)
btse-mcp config --account-id testnet

You will be prompted for:

API Key — paste from BTSE
API Secret — paste passphrase (input is hidden)
Use testnet? — y for testnet, N for live

Credentials are stored encrypted at ~/.config/btse-mcp/accounts.enc using a Fernet key at ~/.config/btse-mcp/key (chmod 600 on Unix).

Verifying the Connection

# Test the default account
btse-mcp test

# Test a named account
btse-mcp test testnet

A successful test prints the current BTC-PERP last price and mark price.

Common failures:

Error	Cause	Fix
Connection FAILED: HTTP 401	Wrong API key or secret	Re-run `btse-mcp config`
Connection FAILED: HTTP 403	Key missing Read permission	Add Read permission in BTSE API settings
Unexpected response	Wrong testnet setting	Check with `btse-mcp list` and reconfigure

Listing and Managing Accounts

# List all configured accounts (shows testnet/live flag)
btse-mcp list

# Delete an account
btse-mcp delete testnet

Using Multiple Accounts

All tools accept an optional account_id parameter:

btse_get_price(symbol="BTC-PERP", account_id="testnet")
btse_account_overview(account_id="live-main")

Default is "default" when account_id is omitted.

Important: If you reconfigure an account with btse-mcp config, restart the MCP server (restart Claude Desktop / Cursor) for the new credentials to take effect. The server caches clients per account for the lifetime of the process.

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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.

9d ago First seen · 132 lines · 24 tokens per session scan B 4a1df386ee7d

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btse-account-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository xbotlive/btse-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 943 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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