aria-trading

ARIA Trading Skill

ARIA (Autonomous Research & Intelligence Analyst) is a crypto analyst and active trader skill for AI coding agents.

Built on the ARIA MCP tool suite, ARIA handles the full trading lifecycle:

• Deep market research and token analysis (9-phase protocol)
• Technical, on-chain, social, and macro analysis
• Portfolio-aware position sizing
• Trade execution on Solana DEXs and CEXs
• Automated SL/TP/trailing stop management
• Event-driven monitoring and alert re-analysis

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Installation

Claude Code Plugin (recommended)

claude plugin install awaisali88/aria-trading-skill

Then configure your ARIA MCP connection:

/aria-trading:configure https://your-aria.up.railway.app YOUR_TOKEN

The plugin automatically bundles the ARIA MCP server config — no manual .mcp.json editing needed.

Multi-Agent Install (Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, etc.)

npx skills add awaisali88/aria-trading-skill

Works with 40+ agents. You'll need to configure the ARIA MCP server manually in your agent's MCP settings.

Claude Desktop / Claude Mobile

1. Open Claude → Projects → New Project → name it "ARIA Trader"
2. Open prompts/claude-desktop-system-prompt.md
3. Copy the full contents and paste into Project Instructions
4. Connect ARIA MCP in Claude Desktop settings (Settings → MCP Servers)

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Prerequisites

ARIA uses a tiered MCP strategy — required, recommended, and optional. The skill detects MCPs at runtime using a use-if-present glob pattern (mcp__*<name>*__*), so install only what you need. Missing optionals degrade gracefully — the skill falls through to slower or less accurate routes but never halts.

🔴 Required

ARIA MCP Server

All trading-venue execution (Binance · Bybit · MEXC · Hyperliquid · pump.fun · Jupiter) plus on-chain, portfolio, alerts, and automation tools. Without this, ARIA cannot place trades or read live balances.

You need:

1. A running ARIA MCP server (local or hosted on Railway/Fly.io/etc.)
2. Exchange API keys configured in ARIA

If using the Claude Code plugin, set these environment variables and restart your session:

export ARIA_MCP_URL="https://your-aria.up.railway.app"
export ARIA_MCP_TOKEN="your-mcp-auth-token"

If using npx skills add, add the ARIA MCP server to your agent's .mcp.json:

{
  "aria": {
    "type": "http",
    "url": "https://your-aria.up.railway.app",
    "headers": {
      "Authorization": "Bearer your-mcp-auth-token"
    }
  }
}

Configure API keys inside ARIA for any combination of:

• CEX: Binance, Bybit, MEXC, Hyperliquid
• DEX: Solana wallet (for Jupiter, pump.fun, Drift, etc.)
• Prediction markets: Polymarket, Kalshi (optional)
• Notifications: Slack (optional)

🟡 Strongly Recommended

These MCPs materially improve analysis accuracy. Skipping them means the skill falls through to slower or less reliable web_fetch routes with lower-quality data.

Alpaca MCP — paper-trading default

Makes the default execution mode paper (safe dry-run), routes US equity and supported-crypto trades to Alpaca's paper account. Unsupported assets (pump.fun/alt tokens) fall through to a journal-only simulated row. Set ARIA_EXECUTION_MODE=live to flip the default to live venues.

claude mcp add --scope user -e ALPACA_API_KEY=<key> -e ALPACA_SECRET_KEY=<secret> alpaca -- uvx alpaca-mcp-server

Get keys at alpaca.markets/docs/api-documentation/paper-trading (free paper account).

TwitterAPI.io MCP — tier-1 X/Twitter data

Replaces the flaky public Nitter rotation with a paid proxy that actually returns tweet JSON reliably. Used for the §1.4 X-status handler (tweet fetch + replies + engagement), post-velocity calculation, KOL tier tagging, and creator-handle legitimacy. Cost: ~$0.01 per full memecoin analysis (15 credits per tweet, pay-as-you-go).

claude mcp add-json --scope user twitterapi '{"command":"uvx","args":["--with","mcp==1.6.0","twitterapi-mcp"],"env":{"TWITTER_API_KEY":"<key>"}}'

Get key at twitterapi.io. Note the mcp==1.6.0 pin — the upstream package passes a settings= kwarg that newer mcp versions rejected.

Binance MCP — preferred CEX klines source

Tier-1 for any Binance call per references/tool-inventory.md's data-source preference order. Without it, ARIA falls back to the public REST endpoint (works but unauthenticated and slower on busy intervals).

Install any Binance MCP implementation you trust — ARIA auto-detects any mcp__*binance*__* match in session.

CoinGecko MCP — preferred global/OHLC data source

Tier-1 for global market data, OHLC, and simple prices.

claude mcp add --transport sse --scope user coingecko https://mcp.api.coingecko.com/mcp

🔵 Optional — nice-to-have fallbacks