Build alternative-data custom indicators on NexusTrade (Reddit/WSB mentions, congressional disclosures, insider filings, news-flow) and wire them into a certified book as a rank/tilt/filter signal. Use when adding alt-data to a strategy, building a CustomIndicator via compute sessions, auditing lookahead safety or…
Measure a NexusTrade options book's TRUE participation at a fixed cold-start capital base, defeating the compounded-NAV breadth illusion. Use whenever a book's headline "holds N/21 names" needs validating, when a live book collapses to a single name (the OSCR trap), when checking whether a SelectTop /…
The "loudly declare" protocol for platform, engine, or data bugs during a NexusTrade certification campaign — bugs are a first-class deliverable, not something to route around. Use whenever a NexusTrade tool errors, hangs, or returns numbers that contradict the config; whenever you're tempted to write "probably an…
The GATED deploy + cleanup flow for a NexusTrade live book — clone the finalist, preview a delta reconcile, stage UNAPPROVED orders, verify fills. Use ONLY after the human explicitly says "deploy + clean up" and names a finalist. Covers the clone-before-reconcile ordering, the single-tick reconcile expectation…
The mandatory pre-flight contract checks (Stage S0) that must pass before trusting NexusTrade's certification engine for any strategy work. Use at the start of a bakeoff or certification campaign to prove the walk-forward engine runs end-to-end, windows don't leak, fold winners persist, and the engine doesn't…
The single-touch lockbox — a final anti-overfitting holdout run once, after design freeze, on a window held out from every fold, sweep, and search. Use when finalizing a bakeoff winner before deploy, setting up the A/B/C baselines as OOS bars, or running the S1.5 gate-coherence auto-relax. Covers why looking at the…
The hard structural constraints for the Public Portfolio Challenge momentum-LEAP options book — the spread-shape rule, the take-profit convexity-cap footgun, the affordability ladder, and the known losers not to re-test. Use whenever building or auditing an options strategy structure, checking spread-shape compliance…
Orchestrate an out-of-sample certification of a NexusTrade trading strategy or live book — the master discipline behind the Public Portfolio Challenge. Use whenever you must decide PASS/FAIL on whether a portfolio holds up out of sample before deploying real money, replaying the Episode 10 runbooks, or running a…
The single entry point that executes a Public Portfolio Challenge episode or addendum runbook end-to-end, delegating each stage to the functional skills. Use when asked to run/execute/replay Episode 10, its bakeoff, or its addendum with the NexusTrade MCP connected. Reads the target runbook, pins its real artifacts…
Run a multi-family strategy bakeoff — the SEARCH→CERTIFY funnel that screens many candidate mechanisms down to a certified deploy winner without letting the cheap search layer issue a verdict. Use when replaying the Episode 10 bakeoff, when exploring several distinct strategy families before certifying, when deciding…
Re-optimize a NexusTrade strategy with a walk-forward SWEEP and label parameter provenance — the discipline that prevents deploying inherited knobs. Use whenever a structural change (sizing, rung depth, universe membership, DTE family, adding a rank signal) forces a re-sweep, when authoring geneintents from…
Run and read a NexusTrade walk-forward out-of-sample study — the certification engine behind the Public Portfolio Challenge. Use when certifying a fixed portfolio (backtestonly) or re-optimizing one (sweep), when setting foldcount / anchored / validation / embargo params, when monitoring a runwalkforwardstudy to…
Instructions for austin-starks/nexustrade-ts, covering agents.md — nexustrade typescript sdk, what this package is, setup, rules that matter and recipes.
Instructions for austin-starks/nexustrade-ts: Claude Code reads this file automatically. The guidance for working in this repository lives in AGENTS.md — a single source shared by every agent tool, so the two can never drift.