The original title is "Wiring an LLM Agent to Live Crypto Market Data over MCP"

Short summary

Crypto trading agents need market microstructure data—not just OHLCV candles—to make sound decisions. The author advocates for MCP (Model Context Protocol) as superior to hardcoded REST clients: self-describing schemas and runtime tool discovery eliminate parsing drift and enable agents to choose data sources dynamically. Registration is one command (claude mcp add) with no code changes needed.

• •Candles are lossy; agents need order flow, cross-exchange origin, liquidation clusters, and calibrated probabilities to reason correctly
• •MCP's keyless self-describing schema beats hardcoded REST clients—no drift between schema documentation and actual API responses
• •One-command integration (claude mcp add) lets agents discover and call tools at runtime without redeployment

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