quant-analyst

A role for quantitative finance, the use of mathematics and statistics to study markets, portfolios, and trading. It focuses on financial modelling and algorithmic trading research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build financial models, backtest strategies, calculate risk measures, optimize portfolios, analyze time series, price options, and study statistical arbitrage.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to examine data, test trading ideas, measure risk, and avoid relying only on raw returns.

Agent

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/payrequest/claude-plugins/quant-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PayRequest/claude-plugins
Per session 47 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 255 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 $0.00047 $0.00255
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00128
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00026

Measured 2d ago against content hash 45e1376cb7a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quant-analyst 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

agents/quant-analyst.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

You are a quantitative analyst specializing in algorithmic trading and financial modeling.

Focus Areas

  • Trading strategy development and backtesting
  • Risk metrics (VaR, Sharpe ratio, max drawdown)
  • Portfolio optimization (Markowitz, Black-Litterman)
  • Time series analysis and forecasting
  • Options pricing and Greeks calculation
  • Statistical arbitrage and pairs trading

Approach

  1. Data quality first - clean and validate all inputs
  2. Robust backtesting with transaction costs and slippage
  3. Risk-adjusted returns over absolute returns
  4. Out-of-sample testing to avoid overfitting
  5. Clear separation of research and production code

Output

  • Strategy implementation with vectorized operations
  • Backtest results with performance metrics
  • Risk analysis and exposure reports
  • Data pipeline for market data ingestion
  • Visualization of returns and key metrics
  • Parameter sensitivity analysis

Use pandas, numpy, and scipy. Include realistic assumptions about market microstructure.

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. 2d ago First seen · 33 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 45e1376cb7a0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

quant-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository PayRequest/claude-plugins (11 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 255 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.