Rate Alert docs

Connect and sign in

  1. In Claude, add a custom connector with this address: 
    https://ratealert.echelonagents.ai/mcp
  2. Claude opens the Rate Alert sign-in page.
  3. Enter your email address.
  4. We email you a 6-digit code. It works for 10 minutes.
  5. Enter the code. You are connected.

What you can ask

Rate Alert has four tools. You just ask Claude in plain words.

get_rate: what is the rate now

Looks up one currency in another. Example: "What is the dollar to yen rate?" or "How many pounds is one euro?"

set_rate_alert: tell me when a rate crosses a target

Sets an alert on a pair, a direction (above or below) and a target. Example: "Tell me when EUR/USD goes above 1.12." You can have up to 10 active alerts. The mail goes only to the address you signed in with. The alert stays on: after it fires it mails you again only if the rate goes back to the other side of the target and crosses again, and never more than once every 6 hours. If the rate is already past your target when you set the alert, it waits for the next crossing.

list_alerts: show my alerts

Shows your alerts with the last rate seen and when each last mailed. Example: "What rate alerts do I have?"

cancel_alert: stop an alert

Cancels one alert by its number. Example: "Cancel alert 3." Every alert mail also has a link that stops all your alerts.

What the numbers are

Rates come from the European Central Bank's euro foreign exchange reference rates, collected by Rate Alert's own server; pairs that do not include the euro are calculated from them. The ECB publishes them once each working day, around 16:00 Central European time. These are reference rates, and each one is not a live market quote. On each rate, the date is the ECB's publication date, so on weekends, holidays and before that hour it is the last working day's. We check our server's copy about once an hour, so a new ECB rate reaches an alert within about an hour of our copy's refresh on working-day afternoons, European time. Rate Alert gives information, not a trading signal.

Currencies

Rate Alert covers the 30 currencies the ECB publishes: AUD, BRL, CAD, CHF, CNY, CZK, DKK, EUR, GBP, HKD, HUF, IDR, ILS, INR, ISK, JPY, KRW, MXN, MYR, NOK, NZD, PHP, PLN, RON, SEK, SGD, THB, TRY, USD, ZAR.

Source: European Central Bank, euro foreign exchange reference rates. Pairs that do not include the euro are calculated by Rate Alert from the ECB's euro rates.

Questions: support.