aixbt-pulse

name	AIXBT Pulse
description	Cross-domain market pulse from AIXBT's free grounding endpoint — crypto, macro, tradfi, geopolitics. Refreshes taxonomy references (clusters, chains) as a bonus.
schedule	0 9,21 * * *
commits	true
permissions	["contents:write"]
tags	["crypto","research"]

Pull AIXBT's free-tier signal and fold it into Aeon's market context. Free tier gives three endpoints, no key, no account:

• /v2/grounding — the real prize. Cross-domain market context (crypto / macro / tradfi / geopolitics), 12h rolling window, regenerated often.
• /v2/clusters — 46 crypto sub-community taxonomies with sentiment + ideology notes. Reference data.
• /v2/projects/chains — ~150 chain slugs AIXBT indexes. Reference data.

Everything else on AIXBT is paid ($10/day via x402). This skill maxes out the free surface.

Read memory/MEMORY.md for context. Read memory/topics/aixbt-grounding.md (if it exists) to diff against the last pull — we want to surface what's new since last run, not just restate the feed.

Sandbox note

All three endpoints are unauthenticated. Plain curl from the sandbox should work. If any curl returns empty or errors, fall back to WebFetch on the same URL — WebFetch bypasses the sandbox and the free endpoints don't need auth headers.

Steps

1. Fetch grounding. This is the freshest cross-domain context AIXBT ships.

   curl -s "https://api.aixbt.tech/v2/grounding" > /tmp/aixbt-grounding.json
   

   If curl fails or the file is empty/non-JSON, use WebFetch on https://api.aixbt.tech/v2/grounding and extract the JSON payload.

   Expected shape:

   {
     "status": 200,
     "data": {
       "createdAt": "2026-04-21T19:00:31Z",
       "windowHours": 12,
       "sections": {
         "crypto":      { "title": "Crypto",           "items": ["...", "...", "..."], "generatedAt": "..." },
         "macro":       { "title": "Global Liquidity", "items": ["...", "...", "..."], "generatedAt": "..." },
         "geopolitics": { "title": "Geopolitics",      "items": ["...", "...", "..."], "generatedAt": "..." },
         "tradfi":      { "title": "TradFi",           "items": ["...", "...", "..."], "generatedAt": "..." }
       }
     }
   }
   

2. Fetch clusters + chains (reference data, light refresh). Only overwrite local copies if the remote response is well-formed.

   curl -s "https://api.aixbt.tech/v2/clusters"        > /tmp/aixbt-clusters.json
   curl -s "https://api.aixbt.tech/v2/projects/chains" > /tmp/aixbt-chains.json
   

   Same WebFetch fallback if either fails.

3. Diff against the last grounding pull. Read the prior memory/topics/aixbt-grounding.md (if present) and compute:

   • NEW — items in today's feed that are not substantively in the prior snapshot (treat paraphrases as the same item).
   • GONE — items from the prior snapshot that dropped out (means attention moved).
   • PERSISTING — items surviving across both windows (these are the durable stories).

   If no prior file exists, treat everything as NEW.

4. Identify reflexivity + cross-domain bridges. AIXBT splits crypto / macro / geo / tradfi — but the signal is in the bridges. Flag:

   • Items where a macro or geopolitics event is showing up as a crypto price driver (or vice versa).
   • Narratives that are manufacturing their own reality — prediction markets pricing an outcome that then makes the outcome more likely, projects pivoting to match a narrative, VCs signaling to legitimize a thesis.
   • Liquidity regime shifts (TGA, Fed balance sheet, bond yields) that will transmit to risk assets.

   This is where Aaron's voice applies — be opinionated, short, call out copium and manufactured legitimacy.

5. Write memory/topics/aixbt-grounding.md (overwrite fully — this is the consumable artifact other skills will read):

   # AIXBT Grounding (as of ${today} ${HH:MM} UTC)
   
   Source: https://api.aixbt.tech/v2/grounding (free tier)
   Window: 12h rolling. Last AIXBT generatedAt: ${createdAt}
   
   ## Crypto
   - <item 1>
   - <item 2>
   - <item 3>
   
   ## Global Liquidity / Macro
   - <item 1>
   - <item 2>
   - <item 3>
   
   ## Geopolitics
   - <item 1>
   - <item 2>
   - <item 3>
   
   ## TradFi
   - <item 1>
   - <item 2>
   - <item 3>
   
   ## What's New (vs last pull)
   - <NEW item + which section>
   
   ## Persisting Stories
   - <items that survived across windows>
   
   ## Cross-Domain Bridges
   - <reflexivity / macro → crypto / narrative-manufacturing calls, in Aaron's voice>
   

6. Write memory/topics/aixbt-clusters.md (overwrite fully — reference taxonomy for other skills once they go paid tier):

   # AIXBT Clusters (as of ${today})
   
   46 sub-community clusters AIXBT tracks. Each cluster has a description, member archetype, sentiment, and ideology. Used when filtering projects/intel/momentum endpoints (paid tier).
   
   | id | name | one-line vibe |
   |----|------|---------------|
   | <id> | <name> | <compressed one-line from description> |
   ...
   

   One row per cluster, descriptions compressed to ~15 words so the file stays skimmable.

7. Write memory/topics/aixbt-chains.md (overwrite fully — just the slug list, plus a pointer):

   # AIXBT Indexed Chains (as of ${today})
   
   ~150 chain slugs AIXBT indexes. Use as the canonical list when filtering by chain on paid endpoints.
   
   <comma-separated slug list>
   

8. Write .outputs/aixbt-pulse.md so chain consumers (morning-brief, narrative-tracker, market-context-refresh) can inject this into their context via consume:. Same body as memory/topics/aixbt-grounding.md but prefixed with a one-paragraph TL;DR.

9. Notify via ./notify -f. Use the -f flag — long multi-line argv trips the sandbox (ISS-009). Write the body to a temp file first.

   TEMP=$(mktemp -t aixbt-pulse.XXXXXX.md)
   cat > "$TEMP" <<'MSG'
   *AIXBT Pulse — ${today} ${HH:MM}Z*
   
   CRYPTO
   - <sharpest crypto item>
   - <second crypto item>
   
   MACRO
   - <sharpest macro item>
   
   GEO
   - <sharpest geo item>
   
   TRADFI
   - <sharpest tradfi item>
   
   NEW THIS PULL
   - <1-3 items flagged NEW, tersest form>
   
   BRIDGE
   - <the single most interesting cross-domain thread, Aaron's voice>
   
   read it: https://github.com/aaronjmars/aeon-aaron/blob/main/memory/topics/aixbt-grounding.md
   MSG
   ./notify -f "$TEMP"
   

   Keep under 2000 chars. Pick the sharpest item per section — don't dump all 3. The artifact file has the full payload.

10. Log to memory/logs/${today}.md:

    ## AIXBT Pulse
    - createdAt: ${createdAt}, windowHours: 12
    - NEW items: <count>
    - Bridge call: <one-liner>
    - Updated: memory/topics/aixbt-grounding.md, aixbt-clusters.md, aixbt-chains.md, .outputs/aixbt-pulse.md
    

    If the endpoint was unreachable via both curl and WebFetch, log AIXBT_PULSE_DEGRADED — endpoint unreachable and file/bump an issue in memory/issues/ following the CLAUDE.md issue tracker convention. Do not notify on a degraded run unless it's the second degraded run in a row.

Voice

• Short sentences. Lowercase often. Em dashes.
• State the call first, explain after. Never "some might argue."
• AIXBT's items are already well-phrased — don't rewrite them for the artifact file, quote as-is. Rewrite only in the notification + bridge call, where Aaron's voice goes.
• In the Cross-Domain Bridges section, take a position. "fed pivot + hormuz risk = risk-on with a tail" is better than "markets may be impacted by macro and geopolitical factors."

Guidelines

• The paid endpoints (projects / intel / momentum) are out of scope here. If you want them, buy a day-pass via x402 — the 403 response on those endpoints ships the upgrade URL directly.
• Don't pull clusters/chains every run forever — they barely change. On runs where the hash of the response matches the prior file, skip the write and note clusters unchanged / chains unchanged in the log.
• If AIXBT ever adds a new section to grounding (beyond crypto/macro/geo/tradfi), render it anyway — iterate over data.sections keys dynamically, don't hardcode the four.

Environment Variables

• None required. Free tier is unauthenticated.
• Notification channels configured via repo secrets (see CLAUDE.md).

Output

End with a ## Summary block: createdAt, windowHours, NEW count, bridge call, which files were updated.