MagicMarkets
Sports prediction markets for AI agents — live prices, quotes, orders, and positions.
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magicmarkets-cli
A command-line interface for the Magic Markets v2 API — stream live sports prices, quote selections, place and manage orders, and inspect your position. The same API is also available as MCP tools, over stdio (a client launches magicmarkets mcp as a subprocess) or the streamable HTTP transport on localhost.
Single static binary, authenticated with one API key. No request signing, no private keys.
magicmarkets markets --sport fb # find events with live prices
magicmarkets offers fb 2026-06-15,1001,2002 # list priced bet types
magicmarkets betslip create fb 2026-06-15,1001,2002 for,h --wait 5s
magicmarkets order place --betslip bs-123 --price 2.10 --stake 50
- Setup — install, authenticate, first commands
- Using it — the bet flow, command reference, MCP, prices, errors
- Development — layout, code generation, conventions, contributing
Setup
1. Install
From a clone:
git clone https://github.com/magicmarkets/magicmarkets-cli
cd magicmarkets-cli
make install # installs `magicmarkets` into your Go bin directory
make where prints exactly where that landed. If magicmarkets is not found afterwards, that directory is not on your PATH:
export PATH="$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin" # add to ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc
Prefer not to install? make build produces ./build/magicmarkets and leaves your PATH alone.
go install directly
Note the /cmd/magicmarkets path — installing the module root would build a binary called magicmarkets-cli:
go install ./cmd/magicmarkets
The Go module path is magicmarkets-cli, not a GitHub URL, so go install github.com/…/magicmarkets-cli@latest will not work. Cloning and make install is the supported path.
2. Add your API key
Create a key at magicmarkets.com under Settings → API. It is shown once at creation, so store it immediately.
Put it in ~/.magicmarkets/.env so it works from any directory:
mkdir -p ~/.magicmarkets
echo 'MAGICMARKETS_API_KEY=your-key-here' > ~/.magicmarkets/.env
chmod 600 ~/.magicmarkets/.env
An env var or a project-local .env works too — cp env.example .env and fill it in.
3. Verify
$ magicmarkets status
version v1.0.0
api url https://magicmarkets.com/v2
ws url wss://magicmarkets.com/v2/stream
lang en
api key ***********1234
env files [/Users/you/.magicmarkets/.env]
authenticated yes
Always check this before opening a stream — the WebSocket rejects a bad key at the handshake without a useful error.
That's the whole setup. Everything below is optional.
Try it
magicmarkets balance # money position
magicmarkets xrates # exchange rates to USDT
magicmarkets markets --sport fb --limit 5 # events that currently have prices
magicmarkets offers fb <event-id> --depth 2 # priced bet types on one event
magicmarkets orders --open # your open orders
magicmarkets ticks 2.345 # where a price lands on the tick schedule
magicmarkets api endpoints # every endpoint (no key, no network)
Add --json to any command to pipe it into jq.
Configuration
Resolved in this order, first match winning:
| Priority | Source |
|---|---|
| 1 | Real environment variables |
| 2 | ./.env |
| 3 | ~/.magicmarkets/.env |
| 4 | ~/.env |
| 5 | Built-in defaults |
| Variable | Default | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
MAGICMARKETS_API_KEY | — | API key (X-Api-Key). Required unless MAGICMARKETS_ACCESS_TOKEN is set |
MAGICMARKETS_ACCESS_TOKEN | — | OAuth Bearer token for CLI/stdio. HTTP MCP still takes the token per request |
MAGICMARKETS_OAUTH_ISSUER | https://magicmarkets.com/api/auth | Upstream AS that mcp --http proxies /authorize and /token to, and that POST /oauth2/firebase-token is resolved against for a Bearer credential — see Authentication |
MAGICMARKETS_SESSION_GROUP_ID | — | Environment-specific id from Magic Markets, used to build the session value an OAuth Bearer credential resolves to. No safe default — required wherever a Bearer credential is expected |
MAGICMARKETS_FIREBASE_WEB_API_KEY | — | Firebase Web API key for the Magic Markets Firebase project, used to exchange the Firebase custom token from /oauth2/firebase-token for a real Firebase ID token — see Authentication. No safe default — required wherever a Bearer credential is expected |
MAGICMARKETS_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID | — | Pre-registered client allowlisting this host's own /mcp/callback |
MAGICMARKETS_OAUTH_PROXY_SECRET | — | Seals OAuth proxy state; every replica must share it |
MAGICMARKETS_MCP_PUBLIC_URL | — | Public base of mcp --http (this host is the MCP Authorization Server) |
MAGICMARKETS_API_URL | https://magicmarkets.com/v2 | REST base, including /v2 |
MAGICMARKETS_BASIC_AUTH | — | Base64 user:pass sent as an additional Authorization: Basic header on every /v2/* REST call — the token for an infra-level wall some non-production environments put in front of the v2 API. Production has no such wall, so this is unset there. Never sent to /oauth2/firebase-token, Firebase's signInWithCustomToken, or the WebSocket stream |
MAGICMARKETS_WS_URL | derived from MAGICMARKETS_API_URL | Stream endpoint |
MAGICMARKETS_LANG | en | Event name language: en, ko, zh-hans |
MAGICMARKETS_TIMEOUT | 30s | Per-request timeout |
MAGICMARKETS_ALLOW_TRADING | unset (off) | Lets magicmarkets mcp place bets. No effect on the CLI. |
Global flags: --json, --verbose/-v, --api-key, --api-url, --ws-url.
--api-url re-derives the stream endpoint from it (matching MAGICMARKETS_WS_URL's
own derivation), unless MAGICMARKETS_WS_URL or --ws-url pins it explicitly —
so --api-url https://staging... doesn't leave stream reading production
prices while every other command reaches staging.
Using it
The two-step bet flow
Placing a bet always takes two steps:
- A betslip registers interest in one selection and receives a live quote. It costs nothing and commits nothing.
- An order commits a stake against that quote.
Betslips are short-lived and carry no price when created — the quote arrives asynchronously, over the WebSocket as a pmm message or by polling. Hence --wait:
# 1. find an event that has prices
$ magicmarkets markets --sport fb --limit 5
SPORT EVENT ID EVENT COMPETITION STATUS START
----- -------- ----- ----------- ------ -----
fb 2026-06-15,1001,2002 Arsenal v Chelsea England Premier League pre_event 2026-06-15 16:00:00
# 2. read a bet_type straight off the feed
$ magicmarkets offers fb 2026-06-15,1001,2002 --depth 2
BET TYPE MARKET IR PRICES (stake @ price) TOTAL
-------- ------ -- ---------------------- -----
for,h 1x2 - 150.00@2.10 80.00@2.08 230.00
for,ah,h,-4 ah - 200.00@1.95 120.00@1.94 320.00
# 3. quote it, waiting for the price to land
$ magicmarkets betslip create fb 2026-06-15,1001,2002 for,h --wait 5s
betslip id bs-abc123
bet type for,h
description Home
expires 2026-06-15 15:42:10 (28s)
total available 230.00 USDT
Prices:
PRICE MIN MAX
----- --- ---
2.10 5.00 150.00
2.08 - 80.00
# 4. commit a stake (asks for confirmation)
$ magicmarkets order place --betslip bs-abc123 --price 2.10 --stake 50
Never construct a bet_type by hand. Copy it verbatim from magicmarkets offers or the stream — it encodes the market, handicap, outcome and direction in one string.
Command reference
Account
| Command | Purpose |
|---|---|
magicmarkets status | Show config and verify the key |
magicmarkets balance | Balance, open stake, smart credit, available |
magicmarkets xrates | Exchange rates to USDT |
magicmarkets position | Aggregate P&L, with --grid for the payoff matrix |
Discovery
| Command | Purpose |
|---|---|
magicmarkets markets | Events that currently have prices |
magicmarkets offers <sport> <event-id> | Priced bet types on an event |
magicmarkets stream | Tail the live price and account feed |
The v2 REST API has no event-listing endpoint — discovery happens over the WebSocket. These commands connect, read the snapshot, and disconnect, so they take a few seconds.
magicmarkets markets --sport fb,tennis --limit 20
magicmarkets markets --search arsenal
magicmarkets markets --in-play
magicmarkets offers fb 2026-06-15,1001,2002 --market ah --depth 3
magicmarkets stream --register fb:2026-06-15,1001,2002
magicmarkets stream --type order,bet # only order activity
Trading
| Command | Purpose |
|---|---|
magicmarkets betslip create [sport] [event] [bet-type] | Quote a selection |
magicmarkets betslip get <id> | Show a betslip and its prices |
magicmarkets betslip list | Open betslip IDs (--expand for full detail) |
magicmarkets betslip refresh <id> | Extend expiry |
magicmarkets order place | Place an order against a betslip |
magicmarkets orders / magicmarkets order list | List orders |
magicmarkets order get <id> | Show one order and its bets |
magicmarkets order tracked <uuid> | Look an order up by idempotency key |
magicmarkets order updates | Orders changed in a time window |
magicmarkets order close <id> | Cancel one order |
magicmarkets order close-many <id>... | Cancel up to 500 orders |
magicmarkets order close-all | Cancel every open order |
Lay bets and parlays:
# lay (against) a selection
magicmarkets betslip create --lay fb 2026-06-15,1001,2002 for,over,2.5
# a 2-leg accumulator
magicmarkets betslip create \
--leg fb:2026-06-15,1001,2002:for,h \
--leg fb:2026-06-16,1003,2004:for,over,2.5 --wait 5s
Risk
| Command | Purpose |
|---|---|
magicmarkets heartbeat run | Create a heartbeat and keep it alive in the foreground |
magicmarkets heartbeat create/list/get/refresh/cancel | Manage heartbeats directly |
A heartbeat is a dead-man's switch: if it is not refreshed before it expires, every open order is closed automatically. Run one alongside an automated strategy so a crash cannot leave orders live.
$ magicmarkets heartbeat run --timeout 60
heartbeat hb-xyz created, expires 2026-06-15 15:43:10; refreshing every 20s
press Ctrl-C to cancel it and leave orders open
On Ctrl-C the heartbeat is cancelled cleanly, leaving orders open. If the process dies, the switch fires.
MCP
| Command | Purpose |
|---|---|
magicmarkets mcp | MCP tools over stdio by default, or --http for the streamable HTTP transport on localhost. See MCP |
Reference
| Command | Purpose |
|---|---|
magicmarkets bet-type <sport> <bet-type> | Validate a bet type, show its payoff grid |
magicmarkets ticks <price> | Snap a price onto the tick schedule |
magicmarkets api endpoints | List every endpoint |
magicmarkets api show <path> [method] | Endpoint detail: parameters, body, responses |
magicmarkets api schema [name] | Component schemas |
magicmarkets api curl <method> <path> | Generate a runnable curl command |
magicmarkets api search <term> | Search endpoints and schemas |
magicmarkets api spec | Print the embedded OpenAPI spec |
The magicmarkets api commands need no API key and no network — the OpenAPI 3.1 spec is compiled into the binary.
Safe-operation checklist
Worth internalising before running anything that spends money:
- Pass
--request-uuidon every order. It makes placement idempotent: a retry after a timeout cannot create a second order, and the order stays retrievable for six hours. Without it, a timeout leaves you unsure whether a bet was placed. - Run a heartbeat when automating. Without one, a crashed strategy leaves orders live in the market.
- Verify the key over REST before opening a stream. The WebSocket fails the handshake with no useful error.
- Take
bet_typefrom the feed, never by hand. Asian handicap lines are 4× the real line, so a hand-built string is easy to get silently wrong. - Check the snapped price.
magicmarkets order placeshows it in the confirmation; that is the price the order actually runs with, not what you typed.
Prices and the tick schedule
Every price lies on a fixed tick schedule whose step widens as the price grows:
| Decimal price | Tick |
|---|---|
| 1.01 – 2 | 0.01 |
| 2 – 3 | 0.02 |
| 3 – 4 | 0.05 |
| 4 – 6 | 0.10 |
| 6 – 10 | 0.20 |
| 10 – 20 | 0.50 |
| 20 – 30 | 1 |
| 30 – 50 | 2 |
| 50 – 100 | 5 |
| 100 – 1000 | 10 |
An off-tick order price is rounded so it never tightens your limit: down for back (for) orders, up for lay (against) orders. magicmarkets order place snaps the price itself and shows the result in the confirmation.
$ magicmarkets ticks 2.345
snapped price 2.34 # back: rounded down
$ magicmarkets ticks 2.345 --lay
snapped price 2.36 # lay: rounded up
Prices quoted from the feed are already on the schedule and are never re-rounded.
Bet type grammar
bet_type is a comma-separated string beginning with the direction: for to back, against to lay. Handicaps always refer to the home team.
| Example | Meaning |
|---|---|
for,h / for,d / for,a | Home / draw / away win |
for,dnb,h | Home win, void if draw |
for,dc,h,d | Double chance: home or draw |
for,over,2.5 / for,under,2.5 | Over/under 2.5 goals |
for,ah,h,-4 | Asian handicap, home -1.0 |
for,ahover,7 | Asian total over 1.75 |
for,cs,2,1 | Correct score 2–1 |
for,score,both,yes | Both teams to score |
for,win,<team_id> | Runner to win an outright |
for,top,3,<team_id> | Runner to finish top 3 |
Asian handicap lines are integers equal to 4× the real line — -4 is -1.0, 2 is +0.5, 7 is +1.75. This keeps 0.25-step lines integer-only on the wire.
Validate any candidate string:
$ magicmarkets bet-type fb for,ah,h,-4
description Home -1.0 (Asian)
valid yes
The full grammar — tennis periods, time-period tokens, every market — is in docs/api-reference.md.
JSON output
Every command takes --json:
magicmarkets orders --open --json | jq -r '.[] | "\(.order_id) \(.status)"'
magicmarkets markets --sport fb --json | jq -r '.[].event_id'
magicmarkets stream --type order --json # one JSON object per line
Stakes are two-element tuples, not objects — --json mirrors the API wire
format exactly, so index them rather than reaching for a field name:
$ magicmarkets balance --json
{
"balance": ["USDT", 10000.5],
"open_stake": ["USDT", 152.55],
"smart_credit": null
}
$ magicmarkets balance --json | jq '.balance[1]' # amount
10000.5
$ magicmarkets balance --json | jq -r '.balance[0]' # currency
USDT
The same applies to every money field: want_stake, stake, profit_loss, total, and the min/max inside a price level.
MCP
magicmarkets mcp serves the API as MCP tools, so an LLM agent can read prices and manage orders. By default it speaks stdio: an MCP client (Claude Code, Cursor, and the like) launches it as a subprocess and they exchange JSON-RPC on stdin/stdout. Pass --http to instead serve the MCP streamable HTTP transport on localhost — see Serving over localhost HTTP below.
stdio
Register the command with a client:
claude mcp add magicmarkets -e MAGICMARKETS_API_KEY=your-key -- magicmarkets mcp
Or in a client's MCP config — mcpServers is the client's name for a stdio subprocess, not a network service:
{
"mcpServers": {
"magicmarkets": {
"command": "magicmarkets",
"args": ["mcp"],
"env": { "MAGICMARKETS_API_KEY": "your-key" }
}
}
}
MCP support is developer-mode for now — expect some friction wiring a stdio server into a given client, and expect that to keep improving. For client-specific setup (where the config file lives, restart behavior, log locations), see that client's own docs rather than this README:
- Claude Code: Connect to tools via MCP
- Model Context Protocol: Connect to local (stdio) servers — covers Claude Desktop and other MCP clients generically
Across clients, the most common snag is the command field: a client often spawns the subprocess with a minimal PATH, not your shell's, so a bare "command": "magicmarkets" can fail to resolve even though the same command works from a terminal. If that happens, swap in the absolute path instead:
which magicmarkets # or: make where
Serving over localhost HTTP
Pass --http to serve the streamable HTTP transport instead of stdio — useful when a client connects over the network, or you want one long-running server shared by several clients instead of a subprocess per client:
magicmarkets mcp --http --addr 127.0.0.1:8383
--addr defaults to 127.0.0.1:8383 — loopback-only, so nothing outside the machine can reach it regardless. --http has no TLS of its own — put it behind a reverse proxy if you expose it beyond loopback.
The server does not use MAGICMARKETS_API_KEY. Each request must send the caller's credential as X-Api-Key or Authorization: Bearer. An API key is forwarded to the Magic Markets REST API and /v2/stream unchanged. A Bearer token is not — it's resolved first, via POST {MAGICMARKETS_OAUTH_ISSUER}/oauth2/firebase-token, to the credential those actually require; see Authentication for the full flow and its known limitations. Stdio still takes MAGICMARKETS_API_KEY or MAGICMARKETS_ACCESS_TOKEN from the environment.
Point a client at the URL instead of a command:
{
"mcpServers": {
"magicmarkets": {
"url": "http://127.0.0.1:8383/mcp",
"headers": { "X-Api-Key": "your-key" }
}
}
}
The same URL accepts an OAuth access token:
{
"mcpServers": {
"magicmarkets": {
"url": "http://127.0.0.1:8383/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer your-token" }
}
}
}
Remote MCP hosts that speak OAuth can skip the headers map. Unauthenticated /mcp replies include WWW-Authenticate pointing at protected-resource metadata that names this MCP host as the Authorization Server (so Claude's Dynamic Client Registration POSTs /register here, not https://magicmarkets.com/register). This process runs its own PKCE login against https://magicmarkets.com/api/auth — it never forwards a downstream client's redirect_uri upstream, since the real Magic Markets AS only allowlists this host's own callback ({public-url}/mcp/callback), never Claude's or Cursor's. Set:
--public-url https://magicmarkets-mcp.dev-eu.kubershmuber.comon the hosted deployMAGICMARKETS_OAUTH_CLIENT_IDto a client onMAGICMARKETS_OAUTH_ISSUERwhose redirect_uris allowlist includes that host's/mcp/callbackMAGICMARKETS_OAUTH_PROXY_SECRETon every replica of a multi-replica deployment — the proxy keeps no server-side session state (login state and one-time codes are sealed, self-contained tokens instead), so replicas that don't share this secret can't decode each other's in-flight logins
Enabling trading
Trading is off by default. A fresh registration is read-only, so an agent asking to place a bet will find no place_order tool at all. Enable it with MAGICMARKETS_ALLOW_TRADING=1, replace the existing registration, and restart your client:
claude mcp remove magicmarkets
claude mcp add magicmarkets -e MAGICMARKETS_API_KEY=your-key -e MAGICMARKETS_ALLOW_TRADING=1 -- magicmarkets mcp
Restarting matters: a client reads the subprocess's tool list once at startup, so an already-running session keeps the read-only list even after you re-register.
Editing a client's MCP config file directly, set MAGICMARKETS_ALLOW_TRADING in env:
{
"mcpServers": {
"magicmarkets": {
"command": "magicmarkets",
"args": ["mcp"],
"env": {
"MAGICMARKETS_API_KEY": "your-key",
"MAGICMARKETS_ALLOW_TRADING": "1"
}
}
}
}
Confirm which mode you are in without involving a client:
$ MAGICMARKETS_ALLOW_TRADING=1 magicmarkets mcp --print-tools
mode: trading ENABLED (via MAGICMARKETS_ALLOW_TRADING) — this process can place real bets
TOOL
----
close_all_orders
close_order
create_betslip
place_order
...
Run it without the env var to see the read-only list (11 tools vs 19). magicmarkets mcp also logs the mode to stderr on every start, which appears in your client's MCP logs (stderr is the only place those lines can go — stdout is the JSON-RPC stream).
What each mode exposes
| Always available | Requires MAGICMARKETS_ALLOW_TRADING |
|---|---|
get_balance, get_exchange_rates, get_position | create_betslip |
list_events, list_event_offers | place_order |
list_orders, get_order | close_order, close_all_orders |
list_betslips, get_betslip | create_heartbeat, refresh_heartbeat, cancel_heartbeat, list_heartbeats |
validate_bet_type, snap_price |
Enable trading only if the agent should be able to bet real money. The money-spending tools carry MCP destructive hints so clients prompt before calling them.
Note this gate applies to magicmarkets mcp only. The CLI's own magicmarkets order place is always available — it has its own confirmation prompt instead.
Errors
Errors carry a stable machine-readable code to branch on:
| HTTP | Code | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | validation_error | Body or query failed validation; per-field reasons are printed |
| 400 | order_closed | Order exists but is already closed or settled |
| 401 | auth_error | Key missing, malformed or rejected |
| 403 | forbidden | Key valid but action not allowed |
| 404 | not_found | Resource unknown or invisible to this key |
| 409 | order_already_created | A request_uuid was reused; the existing order ID is reported |
| 409 | limit_reached | A per-customer cap was hit |
| 429 | throttled | Rate limited; retried automatically, honouring Retry-After |
| 500 | server_error | Internal error; quote the support token when reporting |
Throttled requests are retried automatically (twice by default) because a 429 means the request was rejected outright, so nothing was created. No other status is retried.
Idempotency
uuid=$(uuidgen)
magicmarkets order place --betslip bs-123 --price 2.10 --stake 50 --request-uuid "$uuid"
magicmarkets order tracked "$uuid" # recover after a timeout, safely
If a reused UUID is detected, magicmarkets fetches and shows the original order instead of failing.
Rate limits
Per account, sliding window: 100 req/s burst and 1200 req/min sustained overall, with dedicated budgets of 10 req/s for betslip creation and 5 req/s for order placement.
Troubleshooting
no API key configured — set MAGICMARKETS_API_KEY. magicmarkets status shows which .env files were read.
auth_error (401) — no key was sent at all. Check the variable name.
session_not_found (404) on every call — the key was sent but is not recognised. Regenerate it under Settings → API.
stream handshake failed — the WebSocket rejects a bad key at the HTTP handshake. Run magicmarkets status first; REST gives a clearer error.
magicmarkets markets returns nothing — the snapshot only contains events that currently have live prices, not the full fixture list. Try without --sport, or raise --timeout.
Betslip has no prices — quotes arrive asynchronously. Use --wait 5s. If it still has none, no source is quoting that selection.
updated_at_to must be at least 60 seconds in the past — magicmarkets order updates windows must end ≥60s ago and span ≤70 minutes.
An agent says it cannot bet / needs MAGICMARKETS_ALLOW_TRADING — the magicmarkets mcp subprocess is running read-only, so the betting tools are not registered. See Enabling trading: re-register with MAGICMARKETS_ALLOW_TRADING=1 and restart the client. Check the current mode with magicmarkets mcp --print-tools.
Development
Layout
cmd/magicmarkets/main.go entry point — signal handling, version
internal/config/ .env + environment resolution
internal/magicmarkets/ API client — no CLI or MCP dependencies
client.go transport, envelope, 429 retry
errors.go typed APIError per error code
types.go wire types (Stake is a [ccy, amount] tuple)
ticks.go tick schedule and price snapping
betslips.go orders.go account.go heartbeats.go
stream.go WebSocket client
internal/cli/ cobra command tree, table/JSON rendering
internal/mcpserver/ MCP tools over stdio or localhost HTTP, same client
internal/spec/ embedded openapi.json + reference commands
internal/magicmarketsapi/ generated models + the contract test guarding drift
tools/prepspec/ adapts the spec for oapi-codegen
docs/api-reference.md full API reference (vendored)
internal/magicmarkets has no dependency on the CLI or MCP layers, so it is usable as a plain Go client library.
Everyday commands
make test # go test ./...
make lint # go vet ./...
make fmt # gofmt -w
make build # ./build/magicmarkets
make install # install `magicmarkets` into your Go bin directory
make where # print where make install puts the binary
make generate # regenerate internal/magicmarketsapi from the vendored spec
make update-spec # refresh the vendored spec + docs, then regenerate
Tests need no API key and no network. Keep it that way.
The main package lives in cmd/magicmarkets/, not the module root, so the binary is
named magicmarkets. Building the root would name it after the module path —
magicmarkets-cli — which is not what the docs or magicmarkets --help tell you to run. Keep
new build targets pointed at $(PKG).
make build and make install stamp main.version from git describe, so
magicmarkets --version reports something traceable. Override with
make build VERSION=v1.2.3.
Code generation
Models in internal/magicmarketsapi are generated from the vendored OpenAPI spec with oapi-codegen.
Setup: none. oapi-codegen is pinned by the tool directive in go.mod, so make generate works on a fresh clone. The generated file is checked in, so git clone && go build never requires codegen.
make generate # regenerate from internal/spec/openapi.json
make update-spec # pull the latest spec from the API, then regenerate
The canonical spec comes from magicmarkets.com/magic-api/docs — make update-spec fetches /magic-api/v2/openapi.json plus the Markdown reference. Run git diff afterwards to see exactly what the API changed.
These generated types are a contract reference, not what the CLI uses
The client in internal/magicmarkets keeps hand-written types, because generated code cannot express three things this API needs:
- Stake tuples.
["USDT", 115.38]is an OpenAPI 3.1 tuple; oapi-codegen cannot generate one at all. - The bet-status union. A bet's status is either a bare string or an object.
magicmarkets.BetStatusunmarshals both; a generated union type pushes that branch onto every caller. - Non-pointer access. The spec marks almost nothing
required, so every generated field is a pointer. Threading nil checks through the CLI for fields the API always sends would be noise.
What keeps the two honest
internal/magicmarketsapi/contract_test.go compares the JSON field names of every hand-written type against its generated counterpart, in both directions, and fails on any difference. An upstream field added, removed or renamed breaks go test after make generate instead of being discovered at runtime.
It earned its keep on the first run: it caught bet_bar_values missing from Order, which was silently dropping a field from magicmarkets order get --json.
If it fails, the spec and the client have diverged. Fix the client, or record the exception in that pair's specOnly / handOnly map with a reason. Do not delete the pair to make it pass.
Two wrinkles handled by tools/prepspec
It adapts the spec before codegen without touching the vendored file:
number→float64. oapi-codegen maps a formatless OpenAPInumbertofloat32(~7 significant digits), not enough for prices and stakes. prepspec addsformat: double. This includes the nullable["number", "null"]form, which covers precisely the achieved-price fields. A test asserts no generated money field is everfloat32.StakeTupleflattened to an untyped array, since oapi-codegen fails outright on a 3.1 tuple.magicmarkets.Stakeis the real typed equivalent.
Do not edit internal/magicmarketsapi/types.gen.go by hand.
Conventions and invariants
Things this codebase relies on. Breaking one should be deliberate.
Never place a real order to test a change. magicmarkets order place, magicmarkets order close*, and the MCP place_order / close_* tools spend real money. Read-only commands (status, balance, xrates, markets, offers, orders, position) and the offline magicmarkets api commands are safe to exercise. For write paths, use a local stub server.
Check the spec before inferring a shape. magicmarkets api show orders POST beats guessing. Several endpoints break the common {status, data} pattern, and each break was a bug caught only by reading the spec:
GET /v2/heartbeats/wraps data under aheartbeatskey; every other list endpoint returns a flat array.POST /v2/orders/{id}/close/always returnsdata: null. Re-read the order for its final state.POST /v2/betslips/{id}/refresh/has no documented response body, soRefreshBetslipre-reads the betslip instead of decoding the reply.
Keep the layering. internal/magicmarkets must not import internal/cli or internal/mcpserver.
Money is float64, and prices go through SnapPrice. Never introduce float32 on a price or stake path.
New MCP tools that spend money go behind AllowTrading and carry a destructive hint. The gate is tested; do not weaken it.
Money-touching code needs a test. ticks.go and the MCP trading gate both have tests asserting safety properties — a snap never tightens the bettor's limit, and trading tools are unreachable without MAGICMARKETS_ALLOW_TRADING. Extend those rather than working around them.
Every command supports --json and renders a table otherwise. Data goes to stdout; warnings and prompts go to stderr, so piping stays clean.
Branch on error codes, not strings. Use magicmarkets.HasCode(err, magicmarkets.CodeOrderClosed).
Authentication
This repo targets the public v2 API: https://magicmarkets.com/v2. A caller presents one of two credentials — X-Api-Key, or Authorization: Bearer with a token from https://magicmarkets.com/api/auth — but only the API key is what actually goes out on the wire. A Bearer token is not accepted by the v2 API or /v2/stream as-is; it must first be resolved, in two hops, to the magic-metadata-jwt/session pair those endpoints require:
POST {issuer}/oauth2/firebase-token(Authorization: Bearer <access token>) mints a Firebase custom token carrying the player's real entitlements.- A Firebase custom token is not itself a valid ID token — Magic Markets' own OAuth integration guide for MCP server implementers is explicit that a custom token must be redeemed for a Firebase ID token before it's usable. This process does that redemption itself, calling Google's Identity Toolkit REST API directly —
POST https://identitytoolkit.googleapis.com/v1/accounts:signInWithCustomToken?key=<MAGICMARKETS_FIREBASE_WEB_API_KEY>— and uses the returnedidTokenasmagic-metadata-jwt.
GET {issuer}/me is not used for any of this: it's guarded by Firebase ID-token verification, which the self-signed OAuth access token never satisfies. internal/magicmarkets.MeResolver (internal/magicmarkets/meauth.go) does both hops and caches the result; both internal/mcpserver and the CLI/stdio path go through the same client, so both get it automatically. magicmarkets mcp --http advertises OAuth protected-resource metadata so MCP hosts (Claude, Cursor, ...) can obtain a Bearer token in the first place.
Why MAGICMARKETS_FIREBASE_WEB_API_KEY exists: hop 2 above is a call to Firebase's Identity Toolkit API, not to any Magic Markets endpoint, and Firebase requires a Web API key — scoped to the Magic Markets Firebase project — to identify which project's custom token is being redeemed. It is not a secret minted per-caller; it's the same project-level key any Firebase web client already embeds client-side. It has no safe default because it's project- and environment-specific (STG and prod are different Firebase projects), so — like MAGICMARKETS_SESSION_GROUP_ID — it must be set explicitly wherever an OAuth Bearer caller is expected, or every Bearer-authenticated call fails.
sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant Resolver as MeResolver (cache)
participant Issuer as Magic Markets AS
participant Firebase as Firebase Identity Toolkit
participant API as v2 API / stream
Note over Caller,API: An X-Api-Key credential skips all of this, forwarded unchanged.
Caller->>Resolver: Authorization Bearer access token
alt cache hit, MeCacheTTL is 1 minute
Resolver->>Resolver: reuse cached magic-metadata-jwt and session
else cache miss
Resolver->>Issuer: POST /oauth2/firebase-token<br/>Authorization Bearer access token
Issuer-->>Resolver: firebase_token, a Firebase custom token<br/>not yet valid as magic-metadata-jwt
Resolver->>Firebase: POST accounts:signInWithCustomToken<br/>key is MAGICMARKETS_FIREBASE_WEB_API_KEY, token is firebase_token
Firebase-->>Resolver: idToken
Resolver->>Resolver: cache magic-metadata-jwt as idToken<br/>session as m, group id, uuid joined by dashes<br/>uuid read from the access token's own sub claim
end
Resolver-->>Caller: magic-metadata-jwt, session
Caller->>API: REST headers magic-metadata-jwt and session<br/>stream query params jwt and token
Known limitations
- This process redeems a Firebase custom token for an ID token itself, instead of that being Magic Markets' problem.
POST /oauth2/firebase-tokencould just as easily callsignInWithCustomTokenserver-side and hand back a ready-to-use ID token — sparing every MCP server implementer (not just this one) from needingMAGICMARKETS_FIREBASE_WEB_API_KEY, a direct dependency on Google's Identity Toolkit endpoint, and knowledge of the custom-token/ID-token distinction at all. This is a client-side workaround for a gap in the Authorization Server's contract, not the intended end state — revisit once/if/oauth2/firebase-tokenreturns an ID token (or the v2 API accepts a custom token directly). - The cache is in-process, not shared.
MeResolver's cache is a per-replica LRU (viahashicorp/golang-lru's expirable variant), not the sealed, replica-independent stateinternal/mcpserver/oauth.gouses for OAuth proxy state. On a hosted, multi-replica deployment, a request routed to a different pod than a prior one just pays for one extra exchange (now two calls:/oauth2/firebase-tokenandsignInWithCustomToken) on a cache miss — it does not fail, unlike an un-sharedMAGICMARKETS_OAUTH_PROXY_SECRETwould. This is a deliberate workaround, not the end state: a shared cache (or a documented, longer-lived credential from Magic Markets) would remove the per-replica cold-start cost entirely. - The TTL and cache size are fixed consts, not environment variables (
magicmarkets.MeCacheTTL= 1 minute; a size of 4096 distinct access tokens) — seeinternal/magicmarkets/meauth.go. This keeps the workaround simple while the/mecontract itself is still firming up; revisit once it's worth tuning. MAGICMARKETS_SESSION_GROUP_IDandMAGICMARKETS_FIREBASE_WEB_API_KEYhave no safe default and differ per environment — both must be set explicitly wherever an OAuth Bearer caller is expected, or every Bearer-authenticated call fails.- No proactive token refresh. Resolution is retried on every cache miss, but nothing refreshes an access token before it expires — an expired token surfaces as a failed exchange (and thus a failed tool call), the same as any other invalid credential.
Making a change
See CONTRIBUTING.md for the branch → code → check → PR workflow, including what to do if your change touches the vendored OpenAPI spec.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
Maintained by Magic Markets.