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.
npx agentmods add commands/joncovington/meicagent/paper-startgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joncovington/MEICAgentWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00680 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00340 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00136 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00068 |
Grade A, and why
paper-start 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Start the full MEICAgent paper-trading session: streamer and paper-trading loop.
This is the paper-trading counterpart to /meic-start — it starts the same shared DXLink streamer (paper trading marks positions from real market quotes, exactly like live) but runs the isolated /paper-loop instead of the live trading loop. It never touches data/meic_trades.db, never submits a live order, and is not gated by enable_live_trading — see docs/paper-trading.md for the full design.
Step 1 — DXLink Streamer
Check if the streamer is running:
python src/streamer.py --status
If running is false: start it as a hidden background process.
Start-Process python -ArgumentList 'src\streamer.py' -WorkingDirectory $PWD -WindowStyle Hidden
Step 2 — Paper-trading dashboard
Invoke the /paper-dashboard skill to launch (or confirm already running) the paper-trading dashboard at http://localhost:5051, separate from the live dashboard's port 5050.
Step 3 — Paper-trading loop (scheduled task)
Register the unattended paper loop as a Windows scheduled task and fire the first run immediately:
python src/paper_loop.py --install-task
This creates the MEICAgent-PaperLoop task, which runs python src/paper_loop.py --once every 2 minutes. Each run is a short-lived process that reliably completes, self-heals if one fails, no-ops outside market hours (it's time-gated), and persists across sessions — the robust way to run it unattended on Windows (a long-running detached daemon proved fragile against stray console events). Each --once runs the parallel-shadow engine across every configured symbol: marking/exiting open ICs (per-side stops, the settlement-aware force-close cascade with physical-settlement early close + friction, and cash-settled left-to-expire settlement — no profit target) and evaluating new entries per profile. All writes go to data/paper_trades.db; the live account and data/meic_trades.db are never touched.
(For a one-off manual iteration outside the task — e.g. a final force-close pass — run python src/paper_loop.py --once. On non-Windows hosts, run python src/paper_loop.py in a terminal or wire a cron job instead.)
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 37 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d735c0e83738
paper-start is a command published in the GitHub repository joncovington/MEICAgent (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 680 tokens. 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.
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