Introduction
Introduction to Surf Skills and CLI
Surf gives AI coding agents and developers direct access to crypto intelligence — market data, wallets, social, on-chain analytics, prediction markets, and more.
There are two ways to use it:
- Surf Skill — Install into your AI agent (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) so it automatically knows how to fetch crypto data when you ask. This is the recommended way for most users.
- Surf CLI — A standalone command-line tool for terminal-based research, scripting, and automation.
Quick Start
With an AI Agent (Recommended)
npx skills add asksurf-ai/surf-skills --skill surfOnce installed, just ask your agent things like "what's the price of ETH" or "show me the top wallets holding AAVE" — the skill handles the rest.
With the CLI Directly
curl -fsSL https://downloads.asksurf.ai/cli/releases/install.sh | sh
surf market-price --symbol BTCNo API key needed to try it — you get 30 free credits per day. For full access, get your key from agents.asksurf.ai and run surf auth --api-key sk-your-key-here to save it (stored in the OS keychain when available).
The CLI is open source — github.com/asksurf-ai/surf-cli.