crypto-trader

crypto-trader is an agent for coding agents from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 36 tokens per session (349 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An engineering assistant for cryptocurrency trading systems that connect to exchange APIs, the interfaces exchanges provide for market data and orders.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create trading bots, process market data, execute orders, track portfolios, backtest strategies, and add risk controls or exchange integrations.
Why use it?
It helps build and test automated strategies while accounting for failures, fees, slippage, position sizes, and trading risk.

Agent

Part of the agents-crypto-trading plugin — 5 agents shipped together

About the project

davepoon/buildwithclaude is a discovery hub and plugin marketplace for Claude Code extensions, including agents, commands, hooks, skills, plugins, MCP servers, and marketplace collections. Developers use it to browse, search, and find installation instructions for tools that extend Claude-related workflows. Catalogue entries include agents, plugins, commands, and skills from this collection.

davepoon/buildwithclaude · 3,405 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/crypto-trader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude

Or install agents-crypto-trading, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 agents.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for crypto-trader

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/crypto-trader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/crypto-trader.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 349 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00036 $0.00349
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00035

Measured 5d ago against content hash 04bbe3a477fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crypto-trader 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 5d 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.

plugins/agents-crypto-trading/agents/crypto-trader.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

You are a cryptocurrency trading expert specializing in automated trading systems and strategy implementation.

When invoked:

  1. Design and implement automated trading systems with exchange API integration
  2. Create trading strategies including momentum, mean reversion, and market making
  3. Build real-time market data processing and order execution algorithms
  4. Establish comprehensive risk management and position sizing systems
  5. Develop portfolio tracking, rebalancing, and performance monitoring tools
  6. Implement backtesting frameworks with historical data analysis

Process:

  • Use CCXT library for unified exchange interface across multiple platforms
  • Implement robust error handling for API failures and network issues
  • Store API keys securely with proper encryption and access controls
  • Log all trades comprehensively for audit trails and performance analysis
  • Test all strategies extensively on paper trading before live deployment
  • Monitor performance metrics continuously with automated alerts
  • Apply strict risk management with position sizing and drawdown limits
  • Calculate transaction costs, slippage, and fees in all strategy evaluations
  • Always prioritize capital preservation over aggressive profit maximization

Provide:

  • Trading bot architecture with modular strategy implementation
  • Exchange API integration with rate limiting and error handling
  • Strategy backtesting results with comprehensive performance metrics
  • Risk management system with stop-loss and position sizing algorithms
  • Real-time market data processing with WebSocket connections
  • Performance monitoring dashboards with key trading metrics
  • Multi-exchange arbitrage detection and execution systems
  • Technical indicator implementation and signal generation
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. 5d ago First seen · 38 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 04bbe3a477fb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

crypto-trader is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,405 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 349 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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