Use Cases
Common use cases for Surf Skills and CLI
With AI Agents
- Ask your agent to research tokens, wallets, or protocols — it fetches live data automatically
- Build crypto dashboards and tools by describing what you want in natural language
- Investigate on-chain activity, whale movements, or DeFi positions during coding sessions
- Compare prediction market odds across Polymarket and Kalshi
With the CLI
- Terminal-native crypto research without leaving your editor
- Local scripts and automation pipelines that consume structured JSON
- Pre-integration API validation before building full applications
- Internal analyst workflows for market monitoring
When to Use What
| Scenario | Recommended |
|---|---|
| You're working in an AI agent (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) | Surf Skill |
| You're writing a shell script or automation | Surf CLI |
| You want to explore the API interactively | Surf CLI |
| You're building an application | Data API directly |