Financial Reality for AI Agents — The FYI your agent needs before it acts.
Financial Reality for AI Agents — The FYI your agent needs before it acts. That is what the fathom fyi mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
Fathom is an MCP server that gives AI agents financial reality awareness before they make consequential decisions.
The server publishes 14 tools. What each one is for:
get_reality_check — Market briefing with regime, sentiment, risk score. Paid tiers add alternative signalsget_market_regime — Regime classification (risk-on/off, euphoric, capitulation) with confidence scoringget_sentiment_state — Fear & Greed Index, 7-day trend, contrarian signals, extreme opportunity detectionget_account_status — Your tier, usage stats, locked tools, upgrade pathget_narrative_pulse — Sector rotation, accelerating/decelerating narratives, momentum scoringget_asset_context — Deep context on any asset: cycle position, trend, volume health, risk levelget_temporal_context — Bitcoin halving cycle positioning with historical analogsget_defi_health — DeFi ecosystem TVL, health score, concentration risk, revenue trendsget_macro_context — Fed rates, DXY, yield curve, recession probability, crypto impactget_onchain_pulse — Bitcoin network health, mempool, fees, mining economicsset_portfolio_context — Save your portfolio holdings for personalized guidanceset_alert — Define custom alert conditions (e.g., "fear_greed < 20")Configuration is passed through the environment: FATHOM_API_KEY. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
fathom-fyi on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Fathom Fyi's toolset — get_reality_check, get_market_regime, get_sentiment_state and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by 0xhashy; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| get_reality_check | Market briefing with regime, sentiment, risk score. Paid tiers add alternative signals. |
| get_market_regime | Regime classification (risk-on/off, euphoric, capitulation) with confidence scoring |
| get_sentiment_state | Fear & Greed Index, 7-day trend, contrarian signals, extreme opportunity detection |
| get_account_status | Your tier, usage stats, locked tools, upgrade path |
| get_narrative_pulse | Sector rotation, accelerating/decelerating narratives, momentum scoring |
| get_asset_context | Deep context on any asset: cycle position, trend, volume health, risk level |
| get_temporal_context | Bitcoin halving cycle positioning with historical analogs |
| get_defi_health | DeFi ecosystem TVL, health score, concentration risk, revenue trends |
| get_macro_context | Fed rates, DXY, yield curve, recession probability, crypto impact |
| get_onchain_pulse | Bitcoin network health, mempool, fees, mining economics |
| set_portfolio_context | Save your portfolio holdings for personalized guidance |
| set_alert | Define custom alert conditions (e.g., "fear_greed < 20") |
| get_alerts | Check which of your alerts are triggered against live data |
| get_watchlist_report | Batch analyze up to 10 assets with state change detection |
{
"mcpServers": {
"fathom": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "fathom-fyi"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| FATHOM_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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