The io.github.ArasPasha/botwire-mcp MCP server provides access to 57 real-time wires sourced from multiple primary sources. Its description specifies coverage across areas including SEC, CVEs, courts, Fed, weather, arXiv, and news, and notes a free tier.
Monitor SEC updates and related regulatory information
Track CVE activity and security-related news
Follow court and Fed developments
Get real-time weather and arXiv updates
Watch ongoing news via primary feeds
Captured live from the server via tools/list.
search_news
Ask when the question is general, cross-domain, or 'what is happening today'. Ranked search over 40 curated news sources, polled on every ingest run. For a domain-specific question (a filing, a CVE, a court ruling, an outage) prefer query_wire — a domain wire is always more precise than keyword search over news. Keyword search, not semantic: send distinctive terms. Free preview: top 3 results.
Pull the latest items from one specialist wire. Match the user's question to an 'ask when' below, then pass that wire key. Wires: edgar -> ask when the question is about a company's SEC filings, insider trades, or a specific form (8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, Form 4, S-1, 13F, 13D) [filter "form": 8-k|10-q|10-k|form-4|s-1|13f|6-k|13d; full tier $0.01]; cve -> ask when the question is about a vulnerability, CVE, or security advisory affecting a named product or vendor [filter "src": cisa|ubuntu|msrc|debian|zdi; full tier $0.005]; reg -> ask when the question is about a new US federal rule, proposed rule, notice, or presidential document [filter "type": rule|proposed-rule|notice|presidential; full tier $0.005]; weather -> ask when the question is about an active US severe-weather alert for a place: storm, flood, heat, winter, wind [filter "severity": extreme|severe|immediate; full tier $0.005]; quake -> ask when the question is about a recent earthquake, its magnitude, depth, or location [filter "mag": significant|m4.5|m2.5; full tier $0.005]; arxiv -> ask when the question is about a new AI, ML, NLP, or security research paper [filter "cat": ai|ml|nlp|security; full tier $0.005]; fed -> ask when the question is about what the Federal Reserve, the FOMC, or the ECB just said about rates or policy [filter "src": fed|fomc|ecb; full tier $0.01]; hn -> ask when the question is about what developers are discussing or upvoting right now [filter "feed": frontpage|show|rising; full tier $0.005]; status -> ask when the question is about whether AWS, GCP, Azure, GitHub, Cloudflare, OpenAI, or Anthropic is currently down [filter "provider": aws|github|cloudflare|openai|anthropic|azure|gcp; full tier $0.005]; ailab -> ask when the question is about what OpenAI, DeepMind, Google, Hugging Face, or AWS just announced or released [filter "lab": openai|deepmind|google|huggingface|aws; full tier $0.005]; sec-news -> ask when the question is about a breach, ransomware incident, or threat-actor campaign being reported [filter "src": bleepingcomputer|krebs|hackernews|arstechnica; full tier $0.005]; court -> ask when the question is about a new US federal court opinion or ruling, including the Supreme Court [filter "type": scotus|ca2|ca9|cafc|govinfo; full tier $0.01]; bills -> ask when the question is about a newly introduced congressional bill or a statute compilation [filter "type": bills|statutes; full tier $0.01]; enforce -> ask when the question is about an SEC or FTC enforcement action, fine, or litigation release [filter "agency": sec|ftc; full tier $0.01]; recall -> ask when the question is about a consumer product recall or an FDA regulatory action [filter "src": cpsc|fda; full tier $0.005]; crypto -> ask when the question is about crypto, blockchain, or protocol-level news [filter "src": coindesk|cointelegraph|ethereum; full tier $0.005]; space -> ask when the question is about a NASA mission, launch, or scientific discovery [filter "src": nasa; full tier $0.005]; sport -> ask when the question is about a score, result, fixture, or transfer [filter "src": bbc|espn; full tier $0.005]; jobs -> ask when the question is about an open remote engineering, design, or product role [filter "src": remote|hn; full tier $0.005]; releases -> ask when the question is about whether a dependency shipped a new version: Node, CPython, Kubernetes, Rust, Go, React, PyTorch, Deno, Bun [filter "project": node|python|kubernetes|rust|go|react|pytorch|deno|bun; full tier $0.005]; markets -> ask when the question is about equities, indices, or macro market movement being reported [filter "src": yahoo|marketwatch|seekingalpha; full tier $0.005]; world -> ask when the question is about an international story from a non-US news desk [filter "src": aljazeera|dw|france24|bbc; full tier $0.005]; tech -> ask when the question is about a technology launch, funding round, or platform change [filter "src": techcrunch|verge|ars; full tier $0.005]; econ -> ask when the question is about a US economic data release: CPI, jobs, GDP, interest rates [filter "src": bls|bea|rates; full tier
Show every wire with the condition that should trigger it, plus filters and prices. Call this first if you are unsure which wire owns the question. Free.
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):
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)
bash
curl "https://thebotwire.com/news/preview?q=bitcoin"# free
curl "https://thebotwire.com/news?q=bitcoin&since=2h"# 402 → pay via x402