Tools

Eight tools covering the crypto market-data spine — slug resolution first, then prices, ranked markets, deep coin profiles, historical series, trending, and global macro stats. CoinGecko keys all data by slug (bitcoin, ethereum), not ticker (BTC, ETH), so coingecko_search_coins is the entry point that feeds every ID-keyed tool.

coingecko_search_coins

Resolve a name or ticker to the CoinGecko slug every other tool keys on.

• Tickers are not unique (many coins share ETH/USDC) — returns ranked candidates with id, symbol, name, and market_cap_rank to disambiguate
• Returns the top 25 matches by relevance; discloses truncation when the list is capped
• An empty result is a normal outcome (not an error), with guidance to broaden the query

coingecko_get_prices

Current price and core market stats (market cap, 24h volume, 24h change) for a batch of coins in a batch of currencies.

• Batch-friendly — pass a whole portfolio of up to 250 slugs in one call
• One row per (id, currency) that returned a price
• A wrong/unknown slug returns an empty 200 upstream rather than an error; this tool diffs requested-vs-returned ids and lists the gaps in a missing field, so a typo reads as "unresolved", not "nonexistent"
• Unsupported currency codes are silently dropped upstream and surfaced as a notice
• Throws all_missing only when no requested id resolved

coingecko_list_markets

The entry point for "top 20 DeFi coins" or "biggest gainers today".

• Sort by market cap, volume, or 24h price change (ascending or descending)
• Optional category filter — pass a category_id from coingecko_list_categories
• Pagination via page and per_page (up to 250 rows); discloses when a page is full
• Per-coin market fields: price, cap, volume, 1h/24h/7d change, supply, ATH/ATL
• Detects an unrecognized category (CoinGecko returns empty rather than erroring) and maps it to unknown_category

coingecko_get_coin

The full picture for "tell me everything about Ethereum".

• Six sections — profile, market, links, developer, community, sentiment; pass sections to fetch only what you need (the full record is large)
• Market figures denominated in a chosen vs_currency
• categories here are display names (e.g. "Layer 1 (L1)"), distinct from the category_id slugs returned by coingecko_list_categories
• Upstream is sparse — absent fields are omitted rather than fabricated

coingecko_get_market_chart

Historical series for trend and charting questions (use coingecko_get_prices for the current snapshot).

• recent mode: last N days, with granularity auto-scaling by span (≤1 day → ~5-min, 2–90 → hourly, >90 → daily); pass days (or "max")
• range mode: an explicit window via from/to as Unix seconds
• Returns timestamped point arrays for price, market cap, and volume
• Chart timestamps are Unix milliseconds (note: coingecko_get_prices last-updated is in seconds)

coingecko_get_trending

A heartbeat for "what's hot in crypto right now". No parameters.

• Coins trending by 24-hour search volume, with rank, USD price, and 24h USD change
• Upstream reports market cap and volume as pre-formatted display strings, not numbers — those are omitted rather than presented as numeric data

Resources and prompts

All resource data is also reachable via tools — the resources mirror coingecko_get_coin and coingecko_get_global exactly, so tool-only clients lose nothing. Large collections (markets, categories) are not exposed as resources; use coingecko_list_markets and coingecko_list_categories instead.

Features

Built on @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core:

• Declarative tool, resource, and prompt definitions — single file per primitive, framework handles registration and validation
• Unified error handling — handlers throw, framework catches, classifies, and formats
• Pluggable auth: none, jwt, oauth
• Swappable storage backends: in-memory, filesystem, Supabase, Cloudflare KV/R2/D1
• Structured logging with optional OpenTelemetry tracing
• STDIO and Streamable HTTP transports

CoinGecko-specific:

• Type-safe client for the CoinGecko v3 REST API, with one service method per endpoint
• Runs keyless on the public tier; an optional Demo API key (x-cg-demo-api-key) raises the rate ceiling with no other config change
• Calibrated retry/backoff on the rate-limited public tier — 429s, 5xx, and timeouts retry; Retry-After is honored
• Three distinct upstream error shapes mapped to typed reasons (404 → coin_not_found, 429 → rate_limited, the /simple/price silent miss handled as a missing field, not an error)

Agent-friendly output:

• Search-before-query enforced through descriptions — every ID-keyed tool states slugs-not-tickers and points back to coingecko_search_coins
• Provenance and graceful degradation — coingecko_get_prices reports unresolved ids and dropped currencies instead of failing; truncation and applied filters are disclosed via enrichment
• Units made explicit — timestamp fields document seconds vs. milliseconds so callers don't misread them
• Required CoinGecko attribution carried on every tool, resource, and prompt output

Getting started

Add the following to your MCP client configuration file. No API key is required — set COINGECKO_API_KEY only to attach the higher CoinGecko Demo tier (see Configuration).