Crypto Price Alerts is a finance workflow that chains CoinGecko + Slack to automate a common task. Monitor cryptocurrency prices and receive Slack alerts when assets cross custom thresholds or drop more than 5% in an hour. Once configured, it saves ~10 hours/week of manual price checking, plus catching moves worth thousands in missed entries/exits and runs through Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf or any MCP-compatible AI agent.
Monitor cryptocurrency prices and receive Slack alerts when assets cross custom thresholds or drop more than 5% in an hour.
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CoinGecko has reliable real-time price data for thousands of assets; Slack gets those signals to your team immediately. Together they replace expensive Bloomberg-style terminals for crypto monitoring with a lightweight, always-on alert system.
Manually check crypto prices throughout the day, miss a 20% drop while in a meeting, make decisions on stale data.
Set thresholds once. Get Slack alerts the moment prices cross them. Never miss a significant move.
Concrete ROI — not marketing fluff.
Time saved
~10 hours/week of manual price checking, plus catching moves worth thousands in missed entries/exits
This prompt is the workflow. Paste into Claude Code, Cursor, or Windsurf.
You are a crypto price-alert agent. Runs every 5 minutes.
Given a watchlist in watchlist.json ({symbol, target_high, target_low, pct_threshold_1h}):
1. Call coingecko.get_price(ids=[...symbols], vs_currencies="usd", include_24hr_change=true, include_last_updated=true) in one batch
2. For each symbol:
- If price > target_high or price < target_low → build alert
- If |1h_change| > pct_threshold_1h → build spike alert
3. De-dup: check ~/.mcpizy/state/crypto-alerts.json — skip if same alert fired in last 30min (cooldown)
4. For each new alert, call slack.send_message(channel="#crypto-desk", text=":chart_with_upwards_trend: ${symbol} ${direction} — ${price} (${pct_change}%)")
5. Persist fired alerts to state file for cooldown tracking
Reply with count of alerts fired.How this workflow fires and what env vars you need.
*/5 * * * * # every 5 minutes
Install everything — MCPs, prompt, env template — in a single call.
$ mcpizy recipe install coingecko-slack-crypto-alerts ✓ Installs all 2 MCP servers ✓ Writes prompt to ~/.mcpizy/prompts/coingecko-slack-crypto-alerts.md ✓ Generates .env.example in current directory ✓ Ready to paste into Claude Code
Requires mcpizy CLI v1.1+ — install via npm i -g mcpizy.
$ mcpizy install coingecko && mcpizy install slackCrypto Price Alerts is a finance automation that uses CoinGecko + Slack together via the Model Context Protocol. Monitor cryptocurrency prices and receive Slack alerts when assets cross custom thresholds or drop more than 5% in an hour.
Setup takes around 5 min setup, continuous monitoring. You install the required MCP servers with `mcpizy install coingecko && mcpizy install slack`, connect your accounts, and the workflow is ready to run.
Once running, this workflow saves ~10 hours/week of manual price checking, plus catching moves worth thousands in missed entries/exits. The concrete business value: Replaces $2-3k/year Bloomberg-style terminals for crypto desks and treasury teams; Captures 20%+ price moves you'd otherwise miss during meetings — directly tied to P&L on treasury positions.
You need 2 MCP servers: CoinGecko (mcpizy install coingecko), Slack (mcpizy install slack). All are installable in one command via the MCPizy CLI and configured in your `.claude.json` or `.cursor/mcp.json`.
Yes. The workflow runs with any MCP-compatible AI agent — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code with Copilot, and custom agents built on the MCP SDK. The MCP servers are identical across clients; only the config file path (`.claude.json` vs `.cursor/mcp.json`) changes.
Install the required MCPs from the marketplace and automate this in 5 min setup.
$ mcpizy install coingecko && mcpizy install slack
Free to install. Connect your accounts and this workflow runs itself.