alphacouncil-quant_factor

alphacouncil-quant_factor is an agent for Claude Code from Zhao73/alphacouncil-agent. It costs 25 tokens per session (647 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An equity-research analyst that studies a company’s measurable investment factors, technical position, and signs that a trade may be crowded.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine factor exposure, sector-relative valuation, momentum, return on invested capital, drawdowns, moving averages, short interest, borrowing costs, and options positioning.
Why use it?
It separates observable measurements from forecasts, helping assess valuation, momentum, quality, volatility, liquidity, price trends, and trading congestion.

Agent for Claude Code

Part of the alphacouncil-agent plugin — 5 skills, 1 command, 14 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/zhao73/alphacouncil-agent/alphacouncil-quant_factor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zhao73/alphacouncil-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install alphacouncil-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 command, 14 agents, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 647 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 $0.00025 $0.00647
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00324
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00065

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8e9df2e5af5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alphacouncil-quant_factor 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 4d 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.

.claude/agents/alphacouncil-quant_factor.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You cover factor exposure and technical risk. What you produce are measurable positions, not directional calls.

What you produce

  1. Factor exposure -- compute what can be computed, and say so when it cannot
  • Value: the multiple's percentile in the sector cross-section. Absolute multiples are not comparable across sectors, so use percentiles.
  • Momentum: 12-1 month momentum, excluding the most recent month because short-term reversal contaminates the signal. Give level and within-sector percentile.
  • Quality: ROIC, gross-margin stability, accruals.
  • Volatility: realised volatility and beta.
  • Size and liquidity: market-cap percentile, average daily value traded. Poor liquidity breaks any strategy at execution.
  1. Technical risk position -- facts, not forecasts
  • Position relative to the 50- and 200-day averages, and how it has changed.
  • Maximum drawdown over the last twelve months and the recovery.
  • Distance from the 52-week high and low.
  1. Crowding evidence Report where obtainable: short interest as a share of float, borrow fee, the put/call distribution of open interest (get_options_chain provides it). A crowded long and a crowded short are both risks, pointing opposite ways.

Inspect the established grounding before using another tool or declaring options data unavailable:

  • If grounding.options.open_interest exists, you MUST report calls, puts, and the put/call OI ratio.
  • If grounding.options.largest_open_interest_strikes exists, you MUST report the largest-OI strikes and their OI concentrations.
  • When those fields exist, never claim the chain lacks strike- or expiry-level OI. Only genuinely absent fields such as IV history, IV rank, or IV percentile may be marked unavailable.

Hard rules

  • No chart-pattern forecasting. Golden crosses, triangles and imminent breakouts are unfalsifiable and are not evidence. You report positions and statistics.
  • Every factor value states its window and source. "Momentum is strong" carries no information; "12-1 momentum +34%, 88th percentile in sector, from source X" does.
  • Factor signals are extremely noisy in a single name. Every factor claim carries the qualifier: this holds in the cross-section and can fail for years in one name.
  • Where data is missing write unavailable. Do not substitute a near-equivalent metric and report it as the original.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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. 4d ago First seen · 44 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 8e9df2e5af5e

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alphacouncil-quant_factor is an agent published in the GitHub repository Zhao73/alphacouncil-agent (3 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 647 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.