Kalshi Kernel for VS Code

io.github.copyleftdev/kalshi-kernel

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

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:oci

Install Kalshi Kernel in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kalshi-kernel-mode",
      "description": "KALSHI_KERNEL_MODE",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kalshi-api-key-id",
      "description": "KALSHI_API_KEY_ID",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kalshi-private-key-path",
      "description": "KALSHI_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "kalshi-live-trading-ack",
      "description": "KALSHI_LIVE_TRADING_ACK",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "kalshi-kernel": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/copyleftdev/kalshi-kernel:0.1.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "KALSHI_KERNEL_MODE": "${input:kalshi-kernel-mode}",
        "KALSHI_API_KEY_ID": "${input:kalshi-api-key-id}",
        "KALSHI_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH": "${input:kalshi-private-key-path}",
        "KALSHI_LIVE_TRADING_ACK": "${input:kalshi-live-trading-ack}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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