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Crypto Agent Design Prompt

Specifies an AI crypto agent's tools, permissions, guardrails and evaluation before a single line is written.

2 min readupdated 2026-09-02

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Use to design a research or monitoring agent, and to decide whether it should ever be allowed to sign. Specifies an AI crypto agent's tools, permissions, guardrails and evaluation before a single line is written.

Specifies an AI crypto agent's tools, permissions, guardrails and evaluation before a single line is written. Use to design a research or monitoring agent, and to decide whether it should ever be allowed to sign. Copy the prompt below, swap the bracketed variables for your own context, and run it in any capable model. This prompt node is part of the Onexial knowledge graph and links to related concepts, workflows and tools below.
Context
Use to design a research or monitoring agent, and to decide whether it should ever be allowed to sign.
Prompt
Design an AI agent for this crypto task. Security boundaries are part of the specification.

TASK: [what the agent should do]
Data it needs: [LIST]
Should it execute transactions? [YES / NO]
Available tools: [model, RPC/indexer, analytics API, wallet type, automation platform]

Produce:
1. Scope: exactly what the agent does and what it explicitly does not do.
2. Tool list with typed inputs and outputs, split into read tools and write tools.
3. System prompt: role, method, output format, and refusal conditions.
4. Data validation: how the agent verifies inputs before reasoning on them.
5. Guardrails in deterministic code, not in the prompt: allowlists, value caps, rate limits, simulation, kill switch.
6. Human-in-the-loop points and what is shown to the human for approval.
7. Failure modes specific to crypto: hallucinated addresses, stale prices, spoofed tokens, MEV exposure.
8. Evaluation set: 10 test cases including adversarial inputs, with expected behaviour.
9. Logging and audit requirements.

If the task does not require signing, say so and design a read-only agent.
Example Output
Scope: monitor 15 wallets, research flagged tokens, produce a briefing. Does NOT sign. Read tools: get_wallet_activity, get_token_liquidity, get_contract_facts. Write tools: none. Refusals: no price predictions, no advice, no unverifiable claims. Validation: every address checksummed and resolved against the indexer before use. Guardrails: rate limit, 30-min data staleness cap. Eval: includes a spoofed token with a lookalike symbol; expected behaviour is flagging the mismatch.
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What does the Crypto Agent Design Prompt prompt do?

Use to design a research or monitoring agent, and to decide whether it should ever be allowed to sign.

Which AI models work with this prompt?

It is model-agnostic: it works with any capable general model. Replace the bracketed variables with your own context before running it.

What output should I expect?

Scope: monitor 15 wallets, research flagged tokens, produce a briefing. Does NOT sign. Read tools: get_wallet_activity, get_token_liquidity, get_contract_facts. Write tools: none. Refusals: no price predictions, no advice, no unverifiable claims. Validation: every address checksummed and resolved ag.

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Related concepts

The vocabulary this page depends on.

  • On-chain Agent

    An on-chain agent is an AI agent with read access to blockchain data and a tightly scoped ability to propose or execute transactions.

  • Crypto Automation

    Crypto automation is rule-based execution of monitoring, alerting and recurring on-chain actions, so decisions are made once and applied consistently.

  • Browser Agent

    A browser agent drives a real web browser — navigating, clicking, typing and reading pages — to complete tasks on sites that have no API.

  • Web3 Wallet

    A Web3 wallet stores your keys and signs transactions, letting you hold assets and connect to on-chain applications without an intermediary.

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Related workflows

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Related tool stacks

The tools that run it in production.

  • AI Agent + Web3 Stack

    Agent framework, MCP/API tools, blockchain data access and a limited signing layer — with policy enforced in code.

  • Crypto Automation Stack

    Automation platform, data APIs, alerting and optional wallet execution — the operational layer for monitoring and recurring actions.

  • AI Crypto Research Stack

    A read-only research stack combining an AI assistant, web search, market data and on-chain analytics to screen assets quickly.

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Related use cases

How people apply it, and what came out.

  • Build An AI Crypto Research Agent

    A read-only research agent produced daily briefings on a 30-token watchlist, cutting a 90-minute manual routine to a 10-minute review.

  • Monitor A Crypto Portfolio

    Aggregating six addresses across three chains revealed that a portfolio believed to hold 14 positions actually held one concentrated bet.

  • Automate Repetitive Web3 Actions

    Automating reward claims and gas top-ups with session keys and spend caps saved about 5 hours per month with no unbounded authority.

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Comparisons & alternatives

Pick between the options.

  • AI Agent vs Trading Bot

    A trading bot executes fixed rules deterministically; an AI agent interprets context and decides which steps to take — powerful for research, risky for execution.

  • Web2 Apps vs Web3 Apps

    Web2 apps authenticate with accounts and store state on private servers; Web3 apps authenticate with a wallet signature and keep state on a public chain.

  • Single Agent vs Multi-Agent System

    One well-equipped agent beats a crowd for most jobs; multi-agent wins on genuinely separable, parallel work.

  • Browser Agent vs API Automation

    APIs win whenever they exist; browser agents exist for the systems that never gave you one.

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