> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.hiveintelligence.xyz/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# FAQ

> Common questions about connecting to and building on Hive.

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  <Accordion title="Do I need an account to try Hive?">
    No. The anonymous lane covers 25 material calls per IP per day, resetting at 00:00 UTC.
    Add the endpoint and start asking. Discovery calls do not count against it.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Which clients work?">
    Eleven have their own guide: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code,
    ChatGPT, Grok, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, Qwen Code, and Gemini CLI. Any client that speaks
    MCP over Streamable HTTP works, whether or not it is listed. See [install](/install).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Where does the data come from?">
    12 providers including CoinGecko, Alchemy, DeFiLlama, GoPlus, CCXT, Helius, and
    Hyperliquid. Every response names which one answered. See
    [data sources](/concepts/data-sources).
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  <Accordion title="Do I need my own provider API keys?">
    Never. Hive holds the upstream credentials and manages their rate limits for every source
    that needs one, and the RWA Perps venues need no credential at all: Hive reads their
    official public endpoints keylessly. If a source needs a credential Hive does not hold, the
    call returns `missing_key` so you can tell it apart from an outage.
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  <Accordion title="Why does my agent only see eight tools?">
    That is intended. The root endpoint stays compact and routes to the rest through
    discovery, because a 534 tool list would crowd out the conversation and make selection
    worse. See [how it works](/concepts/how-it-works).
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  <Accordion title="What happens when I run out of credits?">
    Requests stop with a quota error. Hive does not bill overage, so a runaway agent produces
    errors rather than an invoice.
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  <Accordion title="Can Hive place trades?">
    No. Hive is read-only market data. It does not execute trades, hold funds, or give
    financial advice.
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  <Accordion title="Is my API key visible in my client config?">
    Not with OAuth, which is how most supported clients connect. You add only the URL and the
    client stores its own credential. Qwen Code is the exception today: its OAuth configuration
    expects a static client id that Hive does not issue, so it reads a bearer token from its
    config. Keys are otherwise for headless environments that cannot open a browser.
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  <Accordion title="I lost my API key. Can I retrieve it?">
    No. The full secret is shown once at creation; Hive stores only a hash and a short
    non-secret prefix. Disable the old key and create a new one.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Why is a price flagged as suspect?">
    Sources disagreed beyond a threshold. Rather than silently picking one, Hive sets
    `is_price_suspect` so your agent can surface the disagreement.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="How do I know if data is stale?">
    Every material response carries `fetched_at`. Compare it against your own clock. Provider
    health for that call is in `runtime_status`.
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  <Accordion title="Does Hive cover news or sentiment?">
    News yes, sentiment no. `get_news` returns CoinGecko's article feed, filterable by coin,
    and `get_coin_insights` returns its research notes on an Enterprise plan. There are no
    social sentiment scores or trend summaries: your model searches the open web better than
    an API wrapper would. The rest of Hive is what a model cannot get otherwise, which is live
    market state, on-chain data, and contract risk.
  </Accordion>
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