Ways to use Shumi
Web
Ask on the shumi.ai homepage, or use the full chat at shumi.ai/app. Your first question needs no account.
Terminal
npm install -g shumi, then shumi login. Needs Node 22 or later.HTTP API
Keys come from the CLI: install it, run
shumi login, then shumi keys create. Then call https://api.shumi.ai.AI agent
Add
https://mcp.shumi.ai/mcp as a connector in your MCP client.Ask your first question
- On the web
- In the terminal
1
Open shumi.ai
Go to shumi.ai. You can ask your first question without an account.
2
Type a question and send it
Type in the Ask a market question box, for example “is BTC funding crowded?”, and click Run query. Shumi fetches the data and writes the answer.
3
Continue in the full app
Under the answer, click Continue in app (or Open app next to the box). On shumi.ai/app, sign in with your email or a crypto wallet. A free account gets 10 questions, then 1 per day.
Terminal commands to try
On the web, ask any of these as a normal question.
Plans
- Subscription
- Pay per call
On the free plan, each terminal or API command also counts as one question. The daily question resets at 00:00 UTC. The first 10 never refill.
Check the data and the method
How fresh is the data?
Most responses show their age:
shumi signal BTC --agent | jq .meta.data_age_seconds. Check it before you act on a funding rate or a price. Coverage lists the refresh schedule.Does the method work?
The studies publish every tracked outcome, the sample size, the test window and the losses.

