$npx -y skills add machina-sports/sports-skills --skill world-cupPremium 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-ven
| 1 | # World Cup 2026 Intelligence (Premium) |
| 2 | |
| 3 | A hosted, **read-only** intelligence layer for the FIFA World Cup 2026. It joins |
| 4 | three things that are normally separate — **official match truth**, **live |
| 5 | prediction-market state**, and **AI-grounded context** — under one canonical id |
| 6 | space, so an agent can go from a market to the fixture to the teams in a single |
| 7 | hop and reason about *why* a price is moving. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | This skill itself runs no code. Like the [`machina`](https://skills.sh/machina-sports/sports-skills/machina) |
| 10 | gateway it builds on, it shells out to `machina-cli`, selects the hosted **World |
| 11 | Cup Intelligence** project, and the agent harness talks to that project's **MCP |
| 12 | server**. Tenant routing, provider keys, rate limits, and caching all live |
| 13 | server-side. You never call a raw HTTP API or hold a provider key. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | > **Read-only intelligence — not advice.** Every output is informational sports |
| 16 | > market intelligence. **Not betting, trading, financial, or investment advice.** |
| 17 | > This layer has **no** order-placement, trading, or portfolio endpoints. If the |
| 18 | > user wants to act on a signal, that execution happens in *their own* agent, on |
| 19 | > *their own* account and keys — never here. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | ## Premium / billing |
| 22 | |
| 23 | This is a paid, metered layer (Machina Credits — see your project's credit-cost |
| 24 | classes). Free public data does **not** flow through here. Where your agent |
| 25 | harness supports agent-native pay-per-call (x402), the MCP server advertises price |
| 26 | per tool; otherwise calls draw from the project's credit balance. If a call |
| 27 | returns a `402` / "payment required" / "insufficient credits" error, surface it to |
| 28 | the user and stop — do not retry-loop. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | ## Quick Start |
| 31 | |
| 32 | ```bash |
| 33 | # 1. Install the Machina CLI (one-time) — shared with the `machina` skill |
| 34 | pipx install machina-cli |
| 35 | # or: uv tool install machina-cli |
| 36 | # or: python -m pip install --user machina-cli |
| 37 | |
| 38 | # 2. Authenticate |
| 39 | machina login # interactive (browser) |
| 40 | # machina login --api-key <project-api-key> # non-interactive (CI/CD) |
| 41 | |
| 42 | # 3. Select the World Cup Intelligence project (REQUIRED) |
| 43 | machina project list |
| 44 | machina project use <world-cup-project-id> |
| 45 | |
| 46 | # 4. Connect the MCP server |
| 47 | # `machina project use` (or `machina template install`) returns the MCP URL + |
| 48 | # headers. Point your harness's MCP config at it (e.g. .claude/mcp.json for |
| 49 | # Claude Code), then reload the harness so it re-reads the config. |
| 50 | ``` |
| 51 | |
| 52 | ### Inspect-before-run fallback |
| 53 | |
| 54 | 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: |
| 55 | |
| 56 | ```bash |
| 57 | curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/machina-sports/machina-cli/main/install.sh -o /tmp/machina-install.sh |
| 58 | less /tmp/machina-install.sh |
| 59 | bash /tmp/machina-install.sh |
| 60 | ``` |
| 61 | |
| 62 | ## CRITICAL: Before Any Premium Call |
| 63 | |
| 64 | Verify, in order — fix the *specific* failing step, never loop on the same call: |
| 65 | |
| 66 | - `machina-cli` is installed — `which machina` / `machina version`. |
| 67 | - Authenticated — `machina auth whoami` returns a user. |
| 68 | - The **World Cup Intelligence** project is selected — `machina project use <id>`. |
| 69 | - The harness is connected to that project's MCP server (tools are visible). |
| 70 | |
| 71 | ## What you get |
| 72 | |
| 73 | All tools are **read-only**. Group by job: |
| 74 | |
| 75 | ### Identity & fixtures (official match truth) |
| 76 | |
| 77 | | Tool | Returns | |
| 78 | |------|---------| |
| 79 | | `worldcup-resolve` | Any provider id **or** canonical URN → ent |