Claw Arbs MCP Server: An AI Betting Assistant

Most people who try Claude for sports betting or ChatGPT for picks get the same thing: a confident paragraph about form and motivation, and no edge. Language models are bad at guessing results. They're very good at something else: understanding what you want and operating software that does the hard part.

That's the idea behind the Claw Arbs MCP Server: your AI app becomes an AI betting assistant for Claw Arbs. You keep the system that finds the edge (sharp reference prices, fast detection, automatic execution, strict risk limits) and you get a much easier way to run it. Instead of clicking through panels, you tell your AI app what you want, and it prepares the changes for you to approve.

What the AI Assistant Can Do

The Assistant can do almost anything you can do in Claw Arbs' own panels, with the same checks the panels run:

Set things up in one go. Ask for a setup in plain words and your AI app prepares the few changes it needs together; one Apply all in Claw Arbs puts them all in place. New agents always start on paper.
Connect your betting signals. Ask it to connect a Telegram group, your provider's API or your own model as a signal source. It gets Claw Arbs' template and writes a small bridge that runs on your computer, and the new source waits for your Apply. Claw Arbs then bets your signals automatically on your venues, starting on paper (more in our betting signals bot guide).
Explain the app. Ask what a setting does, why a check failed or what a control means, and it answers in plain words, using the app's own explanations.
Set up a bookmaker with you. It finds the odds on the bookmaker's page, checks the setup, opens Bet History and the betslip, and prepares one small real-money test bet that confirms the setup works. Like every change, it waits for your Apply.
Create and change agents. Arbitrage, value bet and Maker agents, and Watch only agents that fill the Arbs and Value tabs without ever betting: their sports, edges, stakes, venues and sharp references. New agents always start on paper. It prepares a switch to real money only when you ask for one, and only while you have Real money changes switched on in the Assistant's Settings (off by default).
Snipers and Edge Lab. Set up a sniper, a bet your agent places once the odds reach your target, and arm or unarm the football angles you've built in Edge Lab on your value agents.
Run the app. Start or stop the Arena, pause scanning, change settings and venues through the panels' own checks, and open any panel or window for you.
Check, record and settle bets. Settle a bet when you tell it the result (it never guesses an outcome), record one you placed by hand, or correct a mistake.
Answer questions about your setup. Your agents, Bookmakers list, portfolio, performance and current opportunities (the Value (Server) board too, while it's open), why an agent is waiting instead of betting, why an arbitrage was left with one leg, whether a venue's balance covers more bets (a yes or no, never an amount), and your results for the last 24 hours or per venue.
Report a bug or ask for a tool. It prepares a bug report, or a request for a tool it doesn't have yet, and you send it.

How It Works: Your AI App Plus the Claw Arbs MCP Server

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the standard AI apps use to connect to other software. Claw Arbs has its own MCP server, and your AI app connects to it like any other tool. That's why it works with the app and the plan you already have:

Claude Desktop, Cursor and Codex: press Add it for me in Claw Arbs (quit Claude Desktop first) and it writes its entry into that app's setup file for you, leaves everything else in the file as it was, and keeps a copy of the original. If Claw Arbs can't find the app's setup folder, it shows the copy-and-paste steps instead.
Claude Code and VS Code: short copy-and-paste steps.
No extra cost. The Assistant comes with your Claw Arbs membership and runs on your AI app's own plan. Claw Arbs charges nothing extra for it and needs no API key.

There's no network port involved: your AI app starts a small relay that talks to Claw Arbs over a local channel only your own user account on this computer can open. Keep in mind that your AI app may send what it reads to its own service, under its own terms. That's how every AI app works.

Looking for a Kalshi or Polymarket MCP Server?

If you searched for a Kalshi MCP or Polymarket MCP server, you probably want Claude to work with your prediction market accounts. The Claw Arbs MCP Server gets you there another way: your AI app doesn't call one exchange's API, it operates Claw Arbs, which already trades on Kalshi, Polymarket, Polymarket US, Predict.fun and SX Bet and works with sportsbooks. So you can ask Claude to set up a Polymarket Maker agent or a Kalshi arbitrage agent, and the agents do the trading under your risk limits, with every change waiting for your Apply.

You Stay in Control: Apply, Undo and the Command Center

An AI app can misunderstand you, so the Assistant is built so that it can't act behind your back:

Every change waits for you. What your AI app prepares lands under To approve in Claw Arbs, and each change shows exactly what it will do before you decide. Nothing changes until you press Apply (or Apply all, once two or more wait) in a Claw Arbs window. Approvals happen in Claw Arbs, never inside the AI app.
Most changes can be undone, and History lists everything the Assistant did. It also warns you about an agent that could never act the way it's set up.
A live command center. The Assistant panel shows each step as it happens ("Read your agents", "Prepared a change to Value Hunter", "Refused: the kill switch is on"), what's waiting for you and what changed today. While your AI app works, Stop disconnects every AI app at once and switches off Yolo mode and Setup runs itself.
Optional automation, off by default. Setup runs itself lets bookmaker setup steps apply without asking. Yolo mode lets your AI app make changes without asking, real money included, at your own risk; it still runs every check your own Apply runs. Only you can switch Yolo mode on, from a Claw Arbs window; no AI app can ever switch it.

Turning the Assistant on takes one step: open it from the Assistant (MCP Server) button at the bottom right of Claw Arbs (the first-start welcome offers it too), read what you accept, and press Accept and turn on. That step also records your acknowledgement of the real-money risks, so you aren't asked again unless an update changes the terms or one of the warnings. Claw Arbs then shows what changed, and Yolo mode stays off until you switch it on again.

What It Will Never Do

Some things are off limits in every mode, Yolo included:

See, enter or change a password, key, cookie or token. It can only check whether a login is saved.
Move money between your accounts or wallets.
Wipe data, such as a portfolio reset or deleting a bookmaker setup. The one exception: it can delete an agent that never had a bet, with Undo.
Touch your licence or billing, or install an update.
Change its own switches, Yolo mode included.
Switch the kill switch off. It can switch it on, which is the safe direction.
Place bets itself. Your agents do that, following your settings and risk limits. The only bet it prepares directly is the small real-money setup test bet, placed only when you press Apply (or at once if you've switched on Yolo mode).

What You Can Ask It

A few examples of plain-English requests the Assistant turns into changes for you to approve:

"Create a Maker agent and a Polymarket venue for market making, and use your suggested settings." (More on Maker in our guide to market making on Kalshi and Polymarket.)
"Connect my Telegram tips group as a signal source and keep it on paper." (How that works: our betting signals bot guide.)
"Set up my bookmaker for tracking, and tell me when the test bet is ready for me to approve."
"Create a paper value bet agent for Premier League moneylines, 3% minimum edge, using Pinnacle and Betfair as references."
"Why didn't my arbitrage agent bet on Arsenal v Chelsea?"
"Settle my paper bet on Arsenal v Chelsea: Arsenal won 2-1."
"Pull all my Maker quotes."

New to the strategies themselves? Agents start on paper for a reason (our guide to prediction market paper trading explains why), and it's worth reading how automated arbitrage execution works before you let an agent use real money.

Why Not Just Ask a Chatbot for Picks?

Because picks aren't where the edge is. Value bets and arbitrage come from prices: a bookmaker or prediction market offering more than the sharp markets say an outcome is worth, found and taken in seconds. A chatbot or AI agent reasoning about a team's form has no access to that, and no way to act on it in time. The broader shift is covered in our look at AI prediction market trading platforms.

The AI Assistant puts the model where it's strong: understanding what you want and handling the setup. The betting stays with agents that price from sharp references and execute in milliseconds, under the limits you set.

Risk note. AI apps make mistakes, so read every change before you press Apply. Yolo mode applies changes without asking, real money included, entirely at your own risk. Agents that bet with real money can lose it: start on paper and only stake money you can afford to lose.

FAQ

What is the Claw Arbs MCP Server?

It turns the AI app you already use, such as Claude, Cursor or Codex, into an AI assistant that operates Claw Arbs in plain English. It can explain the app, set up a bookmaker with you, create and change agents, change settings and venues, and check your bets or settle them when you give the result. Every change it prepares waits for you to press Apply in a Claw Arbs window, unless you switch on Yolo mode yourself.

Which AI apps work with the Claw Arbs MCP Server?

Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor and Codex. Each one connects to the Claw Arbs MCP Server on your own computer. For Claude Desktop, Cursor and Codex, an Add it for me button writes the setup into the app for you; Claude Code and VS Code have short steps.

Can the AI Assistant place bets on its own?

No. Your agents place bets; the Assistant creates and configures them, and can set up snipers that an agent places once the odds reach your target. The only bet it prepares directly is a small real-money test bet that checks a new bookmaker setup, placed only when you press Apply, or at once if you have switched on Yolo mode.

Can the AI Assistant connect my betting signals?

Yes. Ask it to connect a signal source, such as a Telegram group, your provider's API or your own model. It gets Claw Arbs' template, writes a small bridge that runs on your computer (your provider's key stays there), and the new source waits for your Apply. Claw Arbs then bets your signals automatically on your venues, starting on paper and under the limits you set.

Does the AI Assistant cost extra?

No. It comes with your Claw Arbs membership and runs on the plan you already have for your AI app. Claw Arbs charges nothing extra for it and needs no API key.

Can the AI Assistant see my passwords or move my money?

No. In every mode it never sees, enters or changes a password, key, cookie or token (it can only check whether a login is saved), never moves money between accounts, never wipes data, and never touches your licence, billing or its own Yolo switch. It can switch the kill switch on, but never off.

Bottom Line

The Claw Arbs MCP Server doesn't ask an AI to guess winners. It lets your AI app run a system that's built to find and take real edges, while you keep the final say on every change. Connect Claude, Cursor or Codex, tell it what you want, and press Apply when you agree. If you're not a member yet, Claw Arbs new members can start with a 7-day free trial.

Claw Arbs MCP Server: An AI Assistant That Runs Your Betting Bot