conduit-btc-mcp 0.8.5

MCP server exposing your self-hosted, non-custodial Conduit Lightning instance to any MCP-compatible AI agent

conduit-btc-mcp

Model Context Protocol server that exposes Conduit Lightning payments as tools to any MCP-compatible AI agent (Claude Desktop, Cursor, custom agents).

Installs as the PyPI package conduit-btc-mcp; the console command it provides is conduit-mcp (that's what you put in claude_desktop_config.json).

Conduit is self-hosted and non-custodial. This MCP server connects to your own Conduit instance — the one you run against your own LND node, with your own keys. It is not a hosted Conduit service and never touches your funds. You point it at your deployment with two environment variables:

• CONDUIT_API_KEY — an API key you minted on your Conduit instance.
• CONDUIT_API_URL — the base URL of your instance (e.g. https://conduit.your-domain.com). Optional; if unset it defaults to the hosted demo at https://api.conduit.energy. Set it to your own URL in production.

Your node, your keys, your rules.

Install

pip install conduit-btc-mcp

Configure (Claude Desktop)

Add to claude_desktop_config.json, pointing CONDUIT_API_URL at your self-hosted Conduit instance:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "conduit": {
      "command": "conduit-mcp",
      "env": {
        "CONDUIT_API_KEY": "ck_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx",
        "CONDUIT_API_URL": "https://conduit.your-domain.com"
      }
    }
  }
}

Tools exposed

Each tool requires a particular API-key scope. Conduit enforces these scopes server-side: a key with an insufficient scope is rejected. Mint a key with the right scope on your instance (read < write < admin; higher scopes include lower ones).

Tool	Purpose	Required scope
conduit_create_wallet	Create an agent wallet with a daily limit (sats)	admin
conduit_credit	Fund an agent wallet from operator node liquidity (sats)	admin
conduit_attach_policy	Set spending controls: per-tx, hourly, daily, allow/blocklist	admin
conduit_balance	Read current balance	read
conduit_pay	Send to a Lightning address (name@host) or BOLT11 invoice	write
conduit_receive	Generate an invoice for inbound payment	write
conduit_transactions	List recent transactions	read
conduit_fees	Report this operator's platform-fee revenue (sats)	admin

Scopes, accurately. Creating agents (conduit_create_wallet) and setting policies (conduit_attach_policy) are admin operations — an admin-scope key is required, not merely write. Sending payments and generating invoices require write. Reading balances and transactions require read. The platform-fee report (conduit_fees) requires admin. If you want an agent to spend but never reconfigure itself, give it a write key — it can pay and receive, but not create wallets, change policies, or read fee revenue.

conduit_fees

Calls GET /v1/fees on your instance (admin scope) and returns the operator's accumulated platform-fee revenue — the small per-payment fee (in sats) Conduit charges on top of each payment and keeps on settle (refunded in full on failure). The fee is configured by you, the operator, via PLATFORM_FEE_PERCENT / PLATFORM_FEE_MIN_SATS / PLATFORM_FEE_MAX_SATS on your deployment. Returns:

{
  "total_collected_sats": 12345,
  "total_collected_btc": 0.00012345,
  "today_sats": 678,
  "fees_by_day": [
    { "date": "2026-06-06", "sats": 678, "tx_count": 9 }
  ]
}

fees_by_day is ordered most-recent-first.

Policy enforcement

The Conduit policy engine enforces every payment before it reaches the Lightning Network. An AI cannot exceed the limits attached to its wallet.