version: "1.0.1" name: world-cup description: | Premium FIFA World Cup 2026 market & match intelligence — a hosted, read-only layer that fuses official match truth (fixtures, standings, squads, injuries, player performance) with live prediction markets (Kalshi + Polymarket: prices, order books, price history, movers, cross-venue edges) and AI-grounded context (prematch briefs, move explanations, fan/social pulse). Every entity carries a canonical machina URN cross-walked across api-football, sportradar, opta, entain and ESPN, so a market resolves to a fixture resolves to two teams.

This skill is prompt-only and premium: it routes the agent to the hosted World Cup Intelligence project (a per-project Machina MCP server) via machina-cli. It runs no code locally and ships no API keys.

Use when: the user wants World Cup 2026 odds + match context together, asks "what moved and why", wants a grounded market brief or fan-sentiment read on a fixture, or needs one stable id that joins markets ↔ fixtures ↔ teams across providers. Don't use when: the user wants free snapshot data from public APIs (use the football-data, kalshi, polymarket, or markets skills), or wants to place a bet/trade — this layer is read-only intelligence and never executes orders. license: MIT metadata: author: machina-sports version: "0.1.0" premium: true billing: metered risk: mode: premium_mcp_read_only money_movement: false secrets_required: true external_mcp: true metered_billing: true untrusted_content: true requires_explicit_confirmation: true

World Cup 2026 Intelligence (Premium)

A hosted, read-only intelligence layer for the FIFA World Cup 2026. It joins three things that are normally separate — official match truth, live prediction-market state, and AI-grounded context — under one canonical id space, so an agent can go from a market to the fixture to the teams in a single hop and reason about why a price is moving.

This skill itself runs no code. Like the `machina` gateway it builds on, it shells out to machina-cli, selects the hosted World Cup Intelligence project, and the agent harness talks to that project's MCP server. Tenant routing, provider keys, rate limits, and caching all live server-side. You never call a raw HTTP API or hold a provider key.

Read-only intelligence — not advice. Every output is informational sports

market intelligence. Not betting, trading, financial, or investment advice.

This layer has no order-placement, trading, or portfolio endpoints. If the

user wants to act on a signal, that execution happens in their own agent, on

their own account and keys — never here.

Premium / billing

This is a paid, metered layer (Machina Credits — see your project's credit-cost classes). Free public data does not flow through here. Where your agent harness supports agent-native pay-per-call (x402), the MCP server advertises price per tool; otherwise calls draw from the project's credit balance. If a call returns a 402 / "payment required" / "insufficient credits" error, surface it to the user and stop — do not retry-loop.

Quick Start

# 1. Install the Machina CLI (one-time) — shared with the `machina` skill
pipx install machina-cli
# or: uv tool install machina-cli
# or: python -m pip install --user machina-cli
 
# 2. Authenticate
machina login                              # interactive (browser)
# machina login --api-key <project-api-key>  # non-interactive (CI/CD)
 
# 3. Select the World Cup Intelligence project (REQUIRED)
machina project list
machina project use <world-cup-project-id>
 
# 4. Connect the MCP server
#    `machina project use` (or `machina template install`) returns the MCP URL +
#    headers. Point your harness's MCP config at it (e.g. .claude/mcp.json for
#    Claude Code), then reload the harness so it re-reads the config.

Inspect-before-run fallback

If a shell installer is required by the user's environment, download and inspect it before execution instead of piping remote content directly into a shell:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/machina-sports/machina-cli/main/install.sh -o /tmp/machina-install.sh
less /tmp/machina-install.sh
bash /tmp/machina-install.sh

CRITICAL: Before Any Premium Call

Verify, in order — fix the specific failing step, never loop on the same call:

• machina-cli is installed — which machina / machina version.
• Authenticated — machina auth whoami returns a user.
• The World Cup Intelligence project is selected — machina project use <id>.
• The harness is connected to that project's MCP server (tools are visible).

What you get

All tools are read-only. Group by job:

Identity & fixtures (official match truth)

Market intelligence (Kalshi + Polymarket, URN-linked)

Conversational

• world-cup-intelligence-agent — full read + market context.
• world-cup-market-analyst-agent — market-focused analyst.

The intelligence loop

A typical agent flow — research only, no execution:

1. Find the market — worldcup-search-markets {"query":"Brazil","status":"open"}.
2. Anchor it to truth — each market carries event_urn + related_team_urns;

worldcup-resolve (or worldcup-get-event-context) expands the fixture, squads, standings, injuries.

1. Read live state — worldcup-get-market-state for price, order-book depth,

history, trades; worldcup-market-movers / worldcup-compare-market-sources for movement and cross-venue gaps.

1. Explain & brief — worldcup-explain-market-move, worldcup-find-market-edges

(informational only), worldcup-generate-market-brief, worldcup-fan-sentiment-context.

1. Hand off — return the signal + sources + freshness/liquidity/resolution

caveats to the user. Stop there. Any trade is the user's own action elsewhere.

Identifiers

Every entity has a canonical machina URN, stable across providers:

• event — urn:machina:sport:soccer:event:{home}-vs-{away}:{YYYYMMDD}:wor
• team — urn:machina:sport:soccer:team:{slug}:{iso3}
• player — urn:machina:sport:soccer:player:{slug}:{YYYYMMDD-dob}:{iso3}
• competition — urn:machina:sport:soccer:competition:fifa-world-cup-2026:wor

iso3 is the lowercased ISO-3166 alpha-3 (UK home nations use FIFA codes eng/sco/wal). Every doc also carries a uniform provider_ids map (one id per provider).

Alternate key: reads accept the canonical event_urn or provider_event_id (the api-football fixture id, e.g. 1489417) — the latter is the simplest client handle. Markets are keyed {source}:{source_market_id} (e.g. kalshi:KXWCGAME-…, polymarket:2415458).

Freshness

• Identity / fixtures — synced; teams/events stable, players refresh daily.
• worldcup-search-markets — cached, refreshed every ~30 min; responses warn past 15 min.
• worldcup-get-market-state — live from the source.
• worldcup-market-movers — hourly snapshot series; needs ≥2 buckets to show movement.

Common Errors & Recovery

Commands that DO NOT exist — never call these

• any `place`, `order`, `trade`, `buy`, `sell`, `bet` tool — this layer is

read-only; no such tool exists. Execution is the user's own, elsewhere.

• raw `requests` / direct provider HTTP — go through the MCP server; keys and

the correct searchLimit/nested filters live server-side.

• `machina mcp start` / `machina mcp connect` — the MCP server runs on Machina

infra; the harness connects via its own MCP config.

Guardrails

• Never present an output as betting/trading/financial advice.
• Never use "guaranteed edge", "guaranteed profit", or "bet this" language —

edges/movers are informational candidates, not recommendations.

• Always return source, freshness, and resolution/liquidity caveats with any

market output.