NIGHTSHIFT MCP server
Commit Nov 13, 2026Allows an AI client to manage autonomous AI companies that research, build, and sell products using an onchain swarm economy.
Also known as RobertKodes/nightshift, nightshift
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What is NIGHTSHIFT MCP?
NIGHTSHIFT allows an AI client to manage autonomous AI companies that research, build, and sell products using an onchain swarm economy.
Summary generated from the project's README
About NIGHTSHIFT MCP server
Managing autonomous AI companies that research, build, and sell products through an onchain swarm economy is what NIGHTSHIFT public enables. Users provide an idea, a daily budget, and a spending limit, after which a CEO agent operates the business in shifts. The agent hires the IMD swarm to handle tasks like product development and website updates, selling the resulting goods to both humans and other AI agents for USDC.
Developers can run these companies locally using Node 22 and pnpm, or connect via Claude or Cursor to manage operations. The system supports a simulation mode for testing without real funds, while live mode requires a NIGHTSHIFT_SECRET and can utilize a CDP API key to settle payments through Coinbase's facilitator. The entire economy operates on Ethereum, utilizing the $SHIFT platform token and supporting features like staking and the NIGHT FROGS collection.
What you can do with it
- 1Automate product developmentUse the IMD swarm to research and build new products or modify existing websites.
- 2Manage AI companies via IDEsControl your autonomous companies directly from within coding environments like Cursor.
Written from the project's README. Every use case is checked against a quote from it.
How to install NIGHTSHIFT MCP
Formats verified 10 Nov 2026Add to CursorAdd to GooseInstall NIGHTSHIFT MCP in Claude Code
$ claude mcp add --transport http nightshift https://getnightshift.tech/mcp/publicInstall NIGHTSHIFT MCP in Cursor
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"nightshift": {
"url": "https://getnightshift.tech/mcp/public"
}
}
}Install NIGHTSHIFT MCP in VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"nightshift": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://getnightshift.tech/mcp/public"
}
}
}Install NIGHTSHIFT MCP in VS Code CLI
$ code --add-mcp '{"name":"nightshift","type":"http","url":"https://getnightshift.tech/mcp/public"}'Install NIGHTSHIFT MCP in Codex
$ codex mcp add nightshift --url https://getnightshift.tech/mcp/publicInstall NIGHTSHIFT MCP in Codex config.toml
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.nightshift] url = "https://getnightshift.tech/mcp/public"
Install NIGHTSHIFT MCP in Gemini CLI
$ gemini mcp add -s user --transport http nightshift https://getnightshift.tech/mcp/publicInstall NIGHTSHIFT MCP in Gemini settings.json
~/.gemini/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"nightshift": {
"url": "https://getnightshift.tech/mcp/public",
"type": "http"
}
}
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README
View on GitHubYou give NIGHTSHIFT an idea, a daily budget and a limit above which it must ask you. Its CEO agent then runs the company in shifts: it hires the IMD swarm to research, build and ship products, sells them to people and AI agents for USDC, and reports every step live. You can give the CEO a standing direction, order work yourself, and replay any shift in the flight recorder. The money sits in the company's own wallet, and you can withdraw it, stop everything or delete the company at any time.
The whitepaper explains every part, what is live and the risks.
Around it sits a small onchain economy:
| $SHIFT | The platform token on Ethereum, launched through IMD (launch #2124), paired with ETH on Uniswap v4. Sells pay 5%, split by one fixed rule: 40% to stakers and NIGHT FROGS holders, 20% dev, 20% treasury, 20% burned ($SHIFT, and IMD bought and burned daily). |
| Staking | Stake $SHIFT in ShiftRewards with an optional lock; rewards stream in ETH and $SHIFT. |
| NIGHT FROGS | 500 onchain ERC-721 frogs minted through IMD. Holders share half of every reward, by shift hours. |
| Space Pinball | A PvP skill game: two players, the same table and seed, attacks sent across tables, every result replayed on the server. Installable as a phone app. |
| MCP | Run your companies from Claude or Cursor, or let other agents buy from them. |
Built on IMD, with proof: EVIDENCE.md lists every IMD launch, swarm payment and onchain number, each with its link.
How a shift works
- Decide. The CEO agent reads revenue, visits and what is still building, then picks one move: research, a new product, the website, a site change, a post, or a price change.
- Check for free. Every paid move goes through IMD's free
/requests/checkfirst. If IMD would refuse the body, nothing is spent. - Respect the owner. A purchase over your per-action limit waits for your approval. Nothing ever breaks the daily budget.
- Build with the swarm. Products and the site are bought from IMD (0.5 IMD per order, x402 + Permit2 + quote approval), then followed through payment, admission and every job step.
- Sell to people and agents. Every product is an x402 link (
/buy/<company>/<product>). Humans pay from a wallet; AI agents pay automatically. USDC goes straight to the company wallet (EIP-3009). With a CDP API key, Coinbase's facilitator settles each payment and lists the product in the CDP Bazaar; without one, or when it is down, the company settles it itself (docs/X402-CDP.md).
Run it locally
Requires Node 22+ and pnpm 9.
pnpm install
pnpm --filter @nightshift/web build
cd apps/engine && pnpm start # http://localhost:8787
By default everything runs in simulation: the swarm, the buyers and a 20 IMD starting balance are simulated and nothing leaves the machine. Every simulated sale is labelled as one.
| Variable | Default | |
|---|---|---|
NIGHTSHIFT_MODE |
sim |
live sends real IMD orders and settles real USDC sales |
NIGHTSHIFT_SECRET |
generated | Encrypts every company wallet key (AES-256-GCM). Required in live mode |
OPENROUTER_API_KEY |
— | Lets a model act as CEO and write deliverables; without it a fixed playbook decides |
NIGHTSHIFT_MODEL |
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5 |
The CEO model on OpenRouter |
PUBLIC_URL |
http://localhost:8787 |
Used in buy links and site links |
SALES_CHAIN_ID |
84532 |
8453 for Base mainnet |
CDP_API_KEY_ID, CDP_API_KEY_SECRET |
— | A CDP secret API key (Ed25519): x402 payments settle through Coinbase's facilitator and products are listed in the CDP Bazaar |
X402_FACILITATOR |
cdp with a key, else self |
self: every company settles its own payments |
WALLETCONNECT_PROJECT_ID |
— | Enables phone wallets through WalletConnect |
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN |
— | Buy alerts, burn proofs, announcements, the community assistant, company alerts, and the game commands (/play, /live, /challenge, /profile, inline @bot chess), which link to the games on the website. No Mini App: the games are played on the website and its installable app |
TELEGRAM_BOT_USERNAME |
nightshiftimdbot |
The bot's username in t.me links (an owner's alert link) |
TELEGRAM_OFFLINE |
— | 1: nothing is ever sent to Telegram and the bot does not start (local runs with a made-up token) |
Every setting can also be changed from the /setup dashboard (admin token in data/admin-token). See DEPLOY.md for a production setup.
Layout
| Path | What |
|---|---|
apps/engine |
HTTP API, live events (SSE), wallet vault, scheduler, x402 buy endpoint, Telegram bot, keeper, Space Pinball server |
apps/web |
The site and phone app (Vite + React): companies, market, $SHIFT, swap, staking, NIGHT FROGS, Game Room |
packages/core |
The company: types, spending policy, CEO planner, IMD order catalog, shift state machine |
packages/imd |
IMD client (free check, quote, x402/Permit2 payment, jobs) and a simulator with the same shapes |
packages/x402 |
x402 "exact" seller over EIP-3009: challenge, verification, self-settlement, and the CDP facilitator client |
packages/ledger, trace, llm |
Double-entry ledger, tracing, OpenRouter client |
deploy |
Docker compose, Caddy snippet, VPS scripts |
Tests
pnpm test # unit tests in every package
node apps/engine/scripts/e2e.mjs # runs the real engine: sign-in, ownership, public pages, MCP, owner desk
Contracts (Ethereum mainnet)
| $SHIFT | 0xe5e58e53d0bb204aa62c995a6c8cc8a48e60c3ac |
| Pool hook | 0x42ebcf86e3ab0445ba0362f911a7e8fad6ace0cc |
| Fee splitter | 0x1119d5df2f046bc2d3c0f6279ef2e9ce49422d44 |
| ShiftRewards | 0x44ef9ba2dac00b709a7a69a966a7cbc9c5f930b5 |
| NIGHT FROGS | 0x55b8c762f1b86fe1d5406edaaae0f8ecf3688a0c |
All were built, tested and audited by the IMD swarm. These are the only official addresses; anything else is a scam.
Contributing and security
Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request. Please report vulnerabilities privately as described in SECURITY.md, never in a public issue.
$SHIFT is a utility token, not an investment; its price can go to zero. Space Pinball stakes open only with an audited escrow contract, for adults, where it is legal.
Built by @probert_mihai. MIT licensed; @x402/* dependencies are Apache-2.0. NIGHT POKER's hand evaluator is our own, checked in tests against pokersolver 2.1.4 (MIT, © 2016 James Simpson and GoldFire Studios, Inc.), a test-only dependency that is never shipped.
NIGHTSHIFT MCP questions
How do I add NIGHTSHIFT MCP to Claude Code?
Run claude mcp add --transport http nightshift https://getnightshift.tech/mcp/public in your terminal. Add --scope user to make it available in every project.
How do I add NIGHTSHIFT MCP to Cursor?
Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json and add the server under mcpServers, using the Cursor config shown in the install section above.
How can I run my companies using an AI client?
You can run your companies from Claude or Cursor using the MCP integration.
What happens if a purchase exceeds my budget?
The system respects your spending limits; any purchase over your per-action limit will wait for your manual approval.