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Build and mint a key

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Build the server

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Mint a caller key

Printed once and not recoverable — the keystore holds only a scrypt hash. Copy it now.

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The two credentials

This trips up almost every first setup. They are unrelated and both may be needed.GHOSTCOPY_API_TOKEN is the dashboard’s tunnel_token from state/config.json. If your dashboard has no token, leave it empty — the gate is open.Getting this wrong produces a specific symptom: every HTTP-backed tool returns 401 while the Python-backed ones work fine. Invisible on a laptop with no tunnel, broken on any real deployment.

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Claude Code

Create .mcp.json in the repository root (it is gitignored):
.mcp.json
Verify:
.mcp.json.example in the repository root is the maintained template — copy it rather than retyping this block.

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Claude Desktop

Edit the Claude Desktop config (Settings → Developer → Edit Config), using absolute paths — Desktop does not expand ${workspaceFolder}:
Restart Claude Desktop fully — it does not reload config on the fly.

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Cursor and Windsurf

Both read the same MCP schema. Use the Claude Desktop block with absolute paths, in the editor’s own MCP settings file.

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First two calls

Returns your tier and live rate-limit counters — call it before any fan-out so an agent plans within its budget instead of discovering the ceiling by hitting it.
Reports server, bridge, and api.token_configured. If HTTP-backed tools are failing, check this before anything else.

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Expect module_absent

On a master checkout, clustering, memecoin, and Sentry tools all report this. It means the engine is not installed, not that nothing was found. See Data states and the tool reference.

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Prompting notes

Ask for the state

“Score this wallet and tell me which sources were unavailable” gets you a usable answer. Without it, a model may summarise around the gaps.

Zero clusters is an answer

Tell the model that an empty cluster result means “no evidence of a link”, so it does not report it as proof of independence.

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Read-only, structurally

Every tool resolves to a reading function, and clustering runs with persist=False, asserted by a test. The only tool that queues work is log_signal_decision, and it is refused on the free tier. This matters because the caller is a language model acting on content it did not author — a write reachable from a prompt is a write reachable by anyone who can influence the prompt.
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