botwire-mcp

The Bot Wire as MCP tools — real-time news for AI agents.

Every model has a knowledge cutoff. Your agent is blind to the present. The Bot Wire ingests 40 curated sources (CNBC, WSJ, FT, CoinDesk, The Block, Fed, SEC, BBC, TechCrunch…) every 5 minutes and answers "what just happened about X?" in milliseconds.

• $0.005 per call via x402 micropayments — USDC on Base
• No API keys. No signup. No subscription. The wallet is the account
• Free preview tier included (try before paying)

Quick start (Claude Code / Claude Desktop)

Add to ~/.claude/settings.json (Claude Code) or claude_desktop_config.json (Claude Desktop):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "botwire": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "botwire-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "BOTWIRE_WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x<agent-wallet-private-key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Fund the wallet with a few dollars of USDC on Base mainnet — $1 ≈ 200 news queries. No key? The free tools still work.

⚠️ Use a dedicated agent wallet with small amounts — never your main wallet's key.

Tools

Tool	Cost	What it does
search_news	$0.005	Ranked real-time news search — query, since (30m/2h/24h/3d), category, limit
get_headlines	$0.005	Latest headlines by category
preview_news	free	Top-3 teaser results
botwire_status	free	Service health & freshness

Categories: markets · crypto · tech · world · business · energy

Example

Ask your agent: "What happened with fed rates in the last 2 hours?" — it calls search_news(query: "fed rates", since: "2h"), pays half a cent automatically, and answers from headlines published minutes ago.

How payment works

The API returns HTTP 402 Payment Required with an x402 offer. This package signs a USDC transfer authorization with your wallet key (locally — the key never leaves your machine), retries the request, and gets the data. Settlement happens on Base; typical end-to-end latency ~2s on first paid call.

Direct API (no MCP)

curl "https://thebotwire.com/news/preview?q=bitcoin"        # free
curl "https://thebotwire.com/news?q=bitcoin&since=2h"       # 402 → pay via x402

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