Building a Bitcoin SRE Agent: Incident Response Meets AI

Building a Bitcoin SRE Agent: Incident Response Meets AI What if your Bitcoin node had an AI SRE on call 24/7? Not a chatbot that answers "what is Bitcoin?" -- an actual site reliability engineer that detects fee spikes at 3am, investigates mempool floods, diagnoses root causes, and tells you exactly what to do. One that follows the same incident response protocol your best on-call engineer follows, except it never sleeps and never forgets a runbook. That's what I built for the MCP & AI Agents Hackathon. Here's how. The Problem with Bitcoin Monitoring Today Running Bitcoin infrastructure is operationally demanding. A node operator deals with: Fee volatility: Fees can jump 10x in minutes during inscription mints or exchange consolidations. Send a transaction at the wrong time and you overpay by $50. Wait too long and your payment doesn't confirm for hours. Mempool floods: 200,000+ unconfirmed transactions pile up, memory usage spikes, and your node starts evicting low-fee transactio