datasieve-mcp

MCP server for DataSieve — standing infrastructure for AI agents, paid over x402. On-chain conditions on Base (wallet activity, whale transfers, price crossings, new pools), url-change web monitoring (CSS selector / regex scoped), dead-man switches for your own agents (your agent pings a URL; silence fires the alert), cron schedules (fire a webhook every N seconds, at a time, or on a cron expression), and multi-agent coordination (barriers + locks). Every event carries a signed Ed25519 observation receipt. No account, no API key: one gasless USDC payment per watch, signed locally — your key never leaves your machine. Failed calls are never billed.

Setup — no key required to start

Terminal

claude mcp add datasieve -- npx -y datasieve-mcp

Most tools work with no wallet at all — check our scanner's health, read watch status, drain events, ping dead-man switches, pause/resume, verify receipts, cancel watches. Only the buying tools spend money.

The Claude Code skill (recommended)

Terminal

npx -y datasieve-mcp --install-skill

Installs a skill into ~/.claude/skills/datasieve/ that teaches Claude when to reach for standing infrastructure proactively: arm a dead-man switch before long autonomous work, schedule wake-ups, watch pages and wallets, coordinate sub-agents.

When you want to buy

x402 means paying is a signature, so purchases need a key. Two rules:

Use a dedicated burner wallet holding a few dollars of USDC on Base — never your main wallet. Payments are gasless (EIP-3009), so it needs no ETH.
Keep the key out of config files — point at a file instead:

echo '0xYOUR_BURNER_KEY' > ~/.datasieve/key.txt && chmod 600 ~/.datasieve/key.txt
claude mcp add datasieve -e DATASIEVE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE=$HOME/.datasieve/key.txt -- npx -y datasieve-mcp

(DATASIEVE_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... inline also works if you prefer.)

The key never leaves the process: each payment is a signature authorizing exactly the route price — one at a time, nothing standing. Run payment_status to see the wallet, its balance, and prices before spending anything.

Rehearse for free

Terminal

claude mcp add datasieve-sandbox -e DATASIEVE_API_URL=https://staging.datasieve.xyz \
  -e DATASIEVE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE=$HOME/.datasieve/key.txt -- npx -y datasieve-mcp

Same API, Base Sepolia, faucet USDC. Sandbox watches last 1 hour.

Tools

tool	cost	what
`create_watch`	$0.10 (standard/7d) · $0.25 (composite/7d, ≤5 conditions) · $0.35 (standard30/30d) · $0.85 (composite30/30d)	buy a watch; returns id, secret, ping URLs
`renew_watch`	tier price	one more period, trigger budget reset
`coord_workspace`	$0.25 / 7d	multi-agent barriers + locks; every op after is free
`cron_next`	$0.001	parse a cron expression: next N run times, any timezone
`x402_ping`	$0.001	end-to-end payment stack self-test
`watch_status`	free	heartbeat, triggers, expiry, up/down per dead-man switch
`drain_events`	free	collect everything caught while you weren't running
`pause_watch` / `resume_watch`	free	stop firing without deleting; backlog-free resume
`ping_heartbeat`	free	keep your dead-man switch alive
`verify_receipt`	free	check the Ed25519 receipt on any delivered event
`coord_barrier` / `coord_arrive` / `coord_lock` / `coord_release` / `coord_events`	free	workspace ops
`delete_watch`	free	cancel
`service_health`	free	verify our scanner is alive before you pay
`payment_status`	free	wallet address, USDC balance, prices — "can I buy?"

Watch ids and secrets are remembered in ~/.datasieve/watches.json (mode 600), so follow-up calls only need the watch id — the persistent memory your ephemeral agent lacks.