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Kalshi Kernel MCP Server

Unofficial safety-focused MCP server for Kalshi market data and explicitly authorized trading

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Published as ghcr.io/copyleftdev/kalshi-kernel:0.1.1 on oci. Runs locally.

Known issues

7 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

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proposal: paper ledger and fill simulator (paper-mode write path)

User problem

The kernel has no paper-trading capability: get_portfolio, place_order, amend_order, and cancel_order fail closed with capability_not_ready. An agent cannot rehearse a trading workflow end-to-end before any live deployment, which the README explicitly names as the design goal ("paper mode by default"). Today there is no safe way to test order construction, idempotency, fee accounting, or position lifecycle through the MCP boundary.

Proposed behavior

Add a local

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · closed · 1 comment

feat: expose get_weather_index MCP tool (GET /live_data/weather_index/{city})

Summary

Promote Kalshi's GetWeatherIndex REST operation (specs/trade.yaml:3046, GET /trade-api/v2/live_data/weather_index/{city}) into the curated MCP tool surface as get_weather_index.

The endpoint returns the Kalshi-computed city temperature index: the canonical minute-resolution °F series behind hourly temperature markets (KXHIGH lane).

Why

  • Our primary trading lane is KXHIGH weather, yet the kernel cannot read the index those markets settle against.
  • detailed=true retur

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · closed · 0 comments

design: live execution adapter (gated, staged)

Context

All read-only market-data tools are live (PRs #7/#12/#15) and the paper ledger + fill simulator is merged (#10). The curated surface already declares place_order / amend_order / cancel_order with CreateOrderV2 / AmendOrderV2 / CancelOrderV2 (+ margin twins) sources; in live mode they currently return typed capability_not_ready. This issue proposes the design for connecting a real execution backend.

This is REAL MONEY. The design must satisfy docs/ARCHITECTURE.md ("gate

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · closed · 0 comments

proposal: live last-price / quote snapshot tool

Summary

Add get_last — a single compact call that returns the live pricing snapshot for one market, so an agent can answer "what is this trading at right now?" without paging through full market metadata or order books.

Per product family:

  • event: from GetMarket — last_price_dollars, best yes_bid_dollars/yes_ask_dollars (+sizes), no_bid_dollars/no_ask_dollars, volume_24h_fp, status, timestamps.
  • perp: from GetMarginMarket — price (mark), bid, ask, `refer

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · closed · 0 comments

proposal: candles and trade-tape tools (read-only history)

Summary

Extend the read-only market-data surface with historical tools so agents can do time-series analysis without raw REST access:

  1. get_candles — OHLC candlesticks for a market.
    • Sources: trade GetMarketCandlesticks (/series/{series_ticker}/markets/{ticker}/candlesticks) and perps candlesticks endpoint (/margin/markets/{ticker}/candlesticks).
    • Inputs: product (event|perp), ticker, start_ts, end_ts, period_interval (1|60|1440 minutes), optional `include_la

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · closed · 0 comments

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