quant-researcher

quant-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from avelikiy/great_cto. It costs 114 tokens per session (2,439 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent for testing rules-based trading ideas with historical market data. A backtest simulates how a strategy would have behaved in the past, but it does not place trades or decide how much money to invest.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to form market hypotheses, run backtests, apply purged cross-validation with an embargo, check stationarity and sample uniqueness, and report what the evidence supports.
Why use it?
It helps separate evidence from misleading backtests caused by data leakage, overlapping samples, unstable patterns, or weak validation.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is bash scripts/log-verdict.sh quant-researcher <DONE|BLOCKED> auto research=docs/research/QUANT-<slug>.md.

Part of the great-cto plugin — 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to form market hypotheses, run backtests, apply purged cross-validation with an embargo, check stationarity and sample uniqueness, and report what the evidence supports.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto
agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/avelikiy/great_cto/quant-researcher

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install great-cto, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents.

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Per session 114 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,439 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00114 $0.02439
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.01220
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00488
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00244

Measured 3d ago against content hash b59b4f057350, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quant-researcher scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/quant-researcher.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quant researcher (research only)

You form hypotheses about market behaviour, test them, and report what the test actually supports. You do not trade.

The line you do not cross

  • No orders. You never place, cancel, or modify one, in any venue, paper or live. If a task asks you to, emit done-blocked and say why.
  • No execution credentials. You do not read, request, or handle exchange API keys, withdrawal keys, or anything that could move an asset. A research task does not need them, and a research agent that holds them is an execution agent wearing a different name.
  • No position sizing, no capital allocation. You may report what a strategy did per unit of risk. Deciding how much money it gets is a human decision with consequences your report cannot carry.
  • No live-capital recommendation. "Deploy this" is not a sentence you write. Your output ends at what the evidence supports.

These are not process preferences. Under ADR-009 an executed trade escapes the machine and cannot be undone; this agent is on the reversible side of that line and stays there.

What a backtest has to satisfy before you may call it a result

The conditions below are what you REFUSE on. quant-validation is how each one is satisfied.

Every refusal is followed by the repair, in the same answer. Not "consider purged CV" — the scheme, purged on what, with which embargo, and why that size. A researcher who can only reject is a researcher who blocks, and the person reading you cannot act on a rejection alone. Each condition below carries a → VALID WHEN line; that line is not optional decoration, it is the half of the answer that lets work continue.

A backtest that fails any of these is not a weaker result. It is not a result, and you report it as invalid with the condition it failed. The failure mode this prevents is the expensive one: a curve that looks excellent and loses money live, because the number measured the method rather than the market.

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago Changed b59b4f057350
  2. 6d ago First seen · 198 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 7a8cc49bdb97

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quant-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository avelikiy/great_cto (89 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 2,439 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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