From a sentence to a live token.
Five steps to a live token on Argus, one more to give it an agent. Most of them are Claude's job. The rest are signatures.
1. Add the connector
In Claude, open Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector and paste the Claudearc URL. From then on Claude knows the tools: read the Argus terms, preview a launch, prepare it, check its status, look up a token, prepare a buy, list recent launches, and everything about agents.
…/mcp2. Describe the token
Plain language. Claude extracts the name, the ticker, the description, links, the tax (buy and sell, 0 to 10% each), how the tax is split between you, the burn and the pool, and an optional dev buy in USDC. Anything missing, it asks.
3. Check the preview
Before anything is stored, Claudearc runs the launch as a dry run against Arc. The numbers come from the chain, not from a spreadsheet.
- Supply, opening and bond market caps: 1,000,000,000 tokens, $2,500 to open, $45,000 to lock the liquidity for good. The same for every Argus launch.
- Tax and split, exactly as they will be written on-chain, forever. Argus keeps 10% of the tax; the rest follows your split between creator, buy back & burn and liquidity. (Argus also has a holders share paid in USDC, but only launchers registered by Argus can use it; Claudearc tells you if you ask for it.)
- Dev buy result: how many tokens 20 USDC buys in the fresh pool (1% pool fee and your own buy tax included), and what share of supply that is.
- Total cost in USDC, plus a note that gas is on top, also in USDC. There is no launch fee.
- Warnings: a dev buy above 5% of supply is reduced and you are told; a tax above 10% or a split that does not add up to 100% is rejected; a launch with both taxes at 0 is rejected because Argus requires a tax.
You say yes. Claude stores the launch and gives you a link that is valid for 24 hours.
4. Sign
The link opens the signing page. You connect a browser wallet (MetaMask, Rabby, Phantom with EVM, or your wallet's in-app browser on mobile). Claudearc then simulates the launch again, this time from your wallet, and shows:
- The exact contract address the token will have. Argus derives it from your wallet and a random salt; Claudearc computes it the same way and confirms it with the dry run.
- Your balance versus the cost. If the wallet is short, the page says how much USDC it needs on Arc, gas included.
- Who earns the creator share. Always the wallet that signs: Argus has no separate fee recipient.
You press Sign & launch. With a dev buy, your wallet shows two transactions in a row: an approval of that much USDC for the Argus portal, then the launch itself (token, tax hook, pool and dev buy in one). Without a dev buy it is a single transaction. Claudearc never sees a key.
5. It's live
The page waits for the block, reads the Argus TokenLaunched event and shows the contract address with links to Argus and the explorer. Back in Claude, ask "did it go through?" and the status tool answers with the same address. Claude never invents one; it only reports what the chain confirmed.
Under the hood
Simulation, not estimation
Previews use eth_call with a balance override (and an allowance override for the dev buy), so the chain itself computes the outcome even for a wallet that has not connected yet. The signing page repeats it from the real wallet.
The hook is mined for you
Every Argus token gets its own Uniswap v4 hook, and v4 only accepts a hook whose address ends in specific bits. The launcher has to find a salt that produces such an address. Claudearc does that for your wallet in about a quarter of a second, the same way the Argus site does, and predicts the token, the splitter and the hook before you sign.
One transaction, whole market
The Argus portal creates the token, the hook, the fee splitter, a Uniswap v4 pool holding the entire supply above the opening price, and your dev buy, all in one call. There is no bonding curve and no migration: at $45,000 market cap the liquidity locks inside the swap that crosses it.
Guardrails
Dev buy capped at 5% of supply. Tax checked against the Argus maximum (10% per leg) and the split checked to add up to 100%. Terms re-read before you sign; if Argus changed its contracts, you are told. Slippage floor of 3% on buys. Links expire after 24 hours.
6. Give it an agent (optional)
Say "launch OWL with an agent". On Argus the creator is the wallet that launches, and it cannot be changed later, so the agent launches the token itself: Claudearc creates a wallet that belongs to the token, predicts the contract address from it, and hands you a link. On that page you send the launch money to the agent wallet (your dev buy plus a few USDC of gas), the agent launches within seconds, and it is the creator. From then on it works alone, in cycles: collects its share of the tax, buys the token back and burns it, airdrops recent buyers, pays you a salary if the rules say so, keeps a gas reserve, and writes a post about it. Its page shows everything it did, with the transactions. Add a profile picture and a one-line personality if you like. Connect your own X API keys and it posts by itself. Take its balance back whenever you want, with a signature on the same page; the agent stays the creator on-chain and forwards every fee to you from then on.
After the launch
Claude can keep going. token_info reports price in USD, market cap, tax, split and progress to the bond for any Argus token. prepare_buy returns a signing link to buy more through the Uniswap v4 pool, before or after the bond. The first buy from a wallet takes up to three signatures (two one-time approvals, then the swap); later buys take one.