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Connect Kilo Code to Alphaday

Diverged from its Cline and Roo ancestors: a different top-level key, a different file, and an enable flag with the opposite polarity.

No API key No signup Remote HTTP, no local process

What you're connecting to

One endpoint exposing 22 data capabilities across 57 pre-described tools — news, governance, DeFi, security and market data. It is a remote server, so there is no package to install, no process to keep alive and no key to obtain. That matters for Kilo Code setup specifically: almost every MCP example online is command + args spawning a local binary, and none of it applies here.

https://api.alphaday.com/mcp

Before you start

The config below assumes all of this is already true. Most failed setups are one of these rather than a wrong field.

  • Kilo Code in any of its forms — the CLI, the VS Code extension or the JetBrains plugin. All three read the same file, so configure it once.
  • A current version, if you want the kilo.jsonc path. Older installs used .kilocode/mcp.json with the Cline-style shape.

Set it up

Config

kilo.jsonc
{ "mcp": { "alphaday": { "type": "remote", "url": "https://api.alphaday.com/mcp", "enabled": true } } }

Where it goes

  • ~/.config/kilo/kilo.jsonc (global)
  • kilo.jsonc or .kilo/kilo.jsonc (project)

Check it worked

Confirm the connection before you go looking for a bug in your prompt. A server that is listed but not connected looks identical to a model that chose not to call it.

In Kilo Code

MCP panel
  1. 1Open the MCP panel in whichever Kilo client you are using
  2. 2alphaday should be listed as enabled
  3. 3Expand it to confirm the tools were discovered

Enabled, with tools. Because all three Kilo clients read the same file, confirming it in one confirms it everywhere.

Or test the endpoint directly

This is the first message of the MCP protocol, sent by hand. If it answers, the server is reachable from your machine and every remaining problem is on the Kilo Code side.

curl -s -X POST https://api.alphaday.com/mcp \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{
"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{},
"clientInfo":{"name":"curl","version":"1"}}}'

Expected response

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{ "protocolVersion":"2025-06-18", "capabilities":{"tools":{"listChanged":false}, ...}, "serverInfo":{"name":"alphaday","version":"1.30.0"} }}

The version number moves; "name":"alphaday" is the part to look for. The response also carries an mcp-session-id header, which is what a client reuses for every later call.

Try it

Ask these in any Kilo client's chat. Each one needs data the model cannot have — a live feed, an incident record, a yield table — so a good answer is proof the tools fired, not just that the server is listed.

  • What's trending in crypto news right now, and what changed in the last 24 hours?
  • Which DeFi pools are paying over 20% APY, and which of them carry real impermanent-loss risk?
  • Summarise the three most recent on-chain exploits and what was taken.
  • Compare GitHub developer activity for Solana and Sui over the last month.

Things that catch people out

  • The top-level key is mcp, not mcpServers.
  • enabled: true, where Cline and Roo use disabled: false. Opposite polarity, easy to transpose.
  • The type is "remote" — Kilo picks streamable HTTP or SSE itself.
  • The CLI, VS Code and JetBrains clients all read the same file. Older versions used .kilocode/mcp.json with mcpServers; that still works, but it is the legacy path.
  • The file is .jsonc, so comments are allowed — trailing commas still are not.

When it doesn't connect

Symptom first, because that is what you have. The status codes below were produced against the live server rather than copied from elsewhere — if yours does not appear here, it is worth trusting that difference.

A config copied from Cline or Roo does nothing.

Three things differ at once: the key is mcp not mcpServers, the flag is enabled: true not disabled: false, and type is "remote".

Use the block above verbatim rather than editing the Cline one field by field.

The server is listed but switched off.

enabled was transposed from Cline's disabled, so enabled: false reads as a deliberate off.

Set "enabled": true.

It works in the extension but not the CLI, or the other way round.

Two config files exist — a legacy .kilocode/mcp.json alongside the current kilo.jsonc.

Delete the legacy file. All Kilo clients read kilo.jsonc.

Opening the endpoint in a browser returns {"detail": "Bad Request"}.

A browser sends a GET. MCP is JSON-RPC over POST, so a 400 here is the server working correctly — there is no page to serve at an MCP endpoint.

Nothing. A 400 on a plain GET is the expected response, and it confirms the server is reachable.

404 {"detail": "Not Found"}.

The URL has a trailing slash, or a path appended. /mcp/ and /mcp/sse are both distinct routes from /mcp, and neither exists.

Use the endpoint exactly as written, with no trailing slash and nothing after it.

The server shows as connected, but the model never calls it.

Not a connection problem. Most clients only call tools in an agent mode, and several ship new tools unticked or capped.

Switch to the client's agent mode, confirm the Alphaday tools are enabled in its tool picker, and ask something that cannot be answered without live data.

The server does not appear anywhere, with no error at all.

An unparseable config. Most clients skip a file they cannot read rather than surfacing a parse error, and a trailing comma after the last field is the usual culprit.

Validate the file, then reload the window. Every block on this page is valid JSON as written; retyping it by hand is where commas get added.

What you get once it's connected

22 datasets, reached by 57 tools — most datasets have a list form, a detail form and a trending form, which is why the two numbers differ. These four are the ones a general crypto API does not have:

Security exploits

180+ on-chain exploits and hacks, each with a written incident record.

Developer activity

3,000+ GitHub activity snapshots — commits and contributors per coin.

Kasandra

AI-detected chart patterns with a bullish/bearish signal and confidence score.

TVL yields

32,000+ DeFi yield pools with base and reward APY, TVL and IL risk.

News

Real-time news from 49 crypto outlets — 440,000+ articles, tagged and deduped.

Forum

59 governance forums — 60,000+ posts — behind one endpoint.

Blogs

133 project blogs — 19,000+ posts — in one feed.

Podcasts

118 crypto podcast feeds — 22,000+ episodes, each with its audio URL and duration.

Videos

121 YouTube channels — 34,000+ videos — timestamped.

Market coins

Prices, metadata, history and trending movers for the top coins.

Coin categories

700+ token categories; about half carry a market-cap aggregate.

Exchanges

140+ centralized exchanges with trust scores and volume.

On-chain DEXes

700+ DEXes with the chains and protocols behind them.

TVL fees

2,000+ protocol fee and revenue records across DeFi.

TVL stablecoins

400+ stablecoins — peg type, mechanism and circulating supply.

DAO

Live Snapshot proposals across 51 DAOs.

Events

6,000+ conferences, meetups, hackathons and side events.

Tags

A 17,000+ tag taxonomy — projects, chains and categories, with parents and children.

News summary

An AI briefing over the whole news corpus, focusable by project.

Keywords

What crypto is talking about, ranked, right now.

Projects

Search project-tagged content across the whole superfeed.

Fear & greed

The fear & greed index, per asset.

All 22 capabilities are listed on the MCP overview, with the tool count behind each.