Coinbase

Every fact below links to a source card; “unknown” means no source we cite confirms it.

Overview and current status

Coinbase for Agents connects AI apps to a Coinbase account for crypto, equities and derivatives trading, portfolio management and x402 payments.¹ It launched on 2026-06-11 with an MCP server and a CLI. At launch, crypto spot and derivatives were enabled and stocks were described as coming.² The current docs list eligible US stocks.¹

There are two ways in: a remote MCP server at https://agents.coinbase.com/mcp using OAuth, and a local CLI that uses a CDP API key.¹

The CDP CLI/MCP for the developer platform is a separate product for wallets and payments, not consumer account access.³

Feature matrix

Feature	Value	Sources
Read portfolio	Yes	1
Place orders	Yes, with a known limitation on some hosted clients (see below)	1
Order types	unknown
Assets	Crypto spot, US derivatives (futures), eligible US equities	1
Payments	x402 payments for premium data from a USDC balance	1
Limits (size, spend)	unknown. Trade-size and spend rules were announced as coming soon	2
Notifications	unknown
Paper or sandbox	unknown

Implementation details

• Endpoint: https://agents.coinbase.com/mcp, for example claude mcp add coinbase --transport http https://agents.coinbase.com/mcp.¹
• Auth: OAuth with login.coinbase.com as the authorization server.⁴ Dynamic Client Registration and Client ID Metadata Documents are supported, but Coinbase still allowlists clients.¹
• Scopes advertised: include mcp:orders:create, mcp:trades:create, mcp:transfers:create and mcp:portfolios:update.⁴
• Account boundary: you choose which portfolios the agent can reach on the OAuth approval screen.⁵ Isolated agent portfolios are spot crypto only; US derivatives work only in the default portfolio.¹
• CLI: runs locally with a CDP API key; Coinbase calls it the most reliable way to execute trades across models.¹
• Agent feedback: official docs have a Send feedback section. They say you or your agent can send feedback about the Coinbase MCP through the coinbase_feedback_submit tool, that the team reads submitted feedback every day, that feedback is limited to 2,000 characters or less, and that each user can send up to 6 submissions per day. A tool table on the same page also says submissions are screened. The official docs describe this MCP tool and a local CLI command coinbase feedback; they do not document an HTTP path named /feedback.⁶

Guardrails and risks

Guardrail	Where it is enforced	Sources
Dedicated portfolio chosen at sign-in	Server side (broker), optional	52
Main account access is also allowed		2
Client allowlisting, including DCR clients	Server side (broker)	1
Maximum trade size and spend rules	Announced as “soon”, not shipped in the sources	2
Per-order confirmation	Client side. Coinbase documents that Claude previews and asks to confirm, while ChatGPT creates the order in one turn	1
KYT transaction monitoring on payments	Server side (broker)	2

The advertised scopes include transfers, so check which tools your client exposes before connecting a funded account.⁴

How to build against it

1. Create and fund a dedicated portfolio with only what the agent may use, then pick only that portfolio on the approval screen.⁵
2. Add the remote MCP in your client, or use the CLI with a CDP API key for terminal agents.¹
3. If your agent only previews orders on a hosted client, ask it to execute explicitly or use the CLI, as Coinbase suggests.¹

Coinbase publishes an agent-readable llms.txt at https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/llms.txt, which lists Coinbase for Agents materials.⁷

See Connect an MCP client.

Unknown so far

• Order types and limits: unknown.
• Paper trading for the consumer agent product: unknown. A news report’s “separate sandbox” describes running the agent outside the main account, which reads like the isolated portfolio rather than paper trading.⁸
• Agent terms of use: not yet reviewed here.

Changelog

• 2026-11-14: Cited the official CDP docs llms.txt index.⁷
• 2026-11-13: Added the official coinbase_feedback_submit feedback tool, from Coinbase MCP docs.⁶
• 2026-11-12: First version of this page.

Sources

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Footnotes

1. Coinbase MCP - Coinbase Developer Documentation. Coinbase Developer Platform, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵

2. Coinbase for Agents: Your AI Agent Can Now Trade and Pay with Coinbase. Coinbase, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

3. CDP MCP - Coinbase Developer Documentation. Coinbase Developer Platform, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

4. Coinbase for Agents MCP: OAuth protected-resource metadata. Coinbase (endpoint metadata), official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩² ↩³

5. Coinbase for Agents setup skill (skill.md). Coinbase Developer Platform, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩² ↩³

6. Coinbase MCP - Coinbase Developer Documentation. Coinbase Developer Platform, official, retrieved 2026-11-13. ↩ ↩²

7. Coinbase Developer Platform docs llms.txt. Coinbase Developer Platform, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩²

8. Coinbase’s new tool can help agents trade and pay for premium research - TechCrunch. TechCrunch, third-party, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩