alpha

alpha is a command for Claude Code from Zhao73/alphacouncil-agent. It costs 17 tokens per session (3,622 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for an equity-research council that routes a request into a full review, quick review, mechanical stock screen, options lookup, news search, or market narrative.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a ticker or market question to run council analysis, screen a stock, inspect an options chain, find news, or explain a market theme.
Why use it?
It gives common market-research tasks a single entry point and selects the relevant workflow from the request.

Command 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 commands/zhao73/alphacouncil-agent/alpha
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 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,622 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 $0.00017 $0.03622
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01811
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00724
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00362

Measured 4d ago against content hash f81a00425137, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alpha 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/commands/alpha.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/alpha

Request: $ARGUMENTS

Route on the arguments — do not ask what they meant

$ARGUMENTS looks like Do this
(empty) Print the mode table below and stop. Do not start a run.
a ticker alone, or a question Full council at the normal pace. Go to "Full council" below. Plugin-managed headless is bound by the selected pace; visible-host execution has no bound at all.
ticker + fast / slow / deep Full council with that tier prefilled. Still show the pace menu and take the answer, exactly as with a named master.
ticker + quick The plugin-managed headless quick_v1 council: 4 fixed analysts, 1-4 selected methods, one parallel bull/bear round and a short PM inside a hard 10-minute ceiling.
ticker + screen screen_ticker only. No language-model judgment, no subagents.
ticker + options get_options_chain only.
ticker + news get_news on the symbol, and on its CIK when it is a US filer.
market (with or without a theme) get_market_narrative. Add the theme as extra_queries.

When $ARGUMENTS is empty, print exactly this and stop:

/alpha <TICKER>          full council — asks how deep to go, then shows every master
/alpha <TICKER> fast     same, with the 15-minute tier prefilled
/alpha <TICKER> slow     same, with the 60-minute tier prefilled
/alpha <TICKER> quick    quick_v1: 4 analysts incl. news + 1-4 masters + 1 parallel debate round (<=10m)
/alpha <TICKER> screen   mechanical filings screen only        (no model spend)
/alpha <TICKER> options  IV term structure, skew, positioning  (no model spend)
/alpha <TICKER> news     dated filings and headlines           (no model spend)
/alpha market <theme>    what the market is talking about      (no model spend)

you do not have to type a speed: the run asks, and shows the persistence ceiling for each
tier. all three tiers are the same full_v2 contract at three depths; quick is a SMALLER
contract (4 analysts, 1 debate round) and is never full-equivalent

examples
  /alpha AAPL            /alpha 0700.HK quick     /alpha 7203.T news
  /alpha NVDA slow       /alpha MSFT fast
  /alpha NVDA screen     /alpha market rates      /alpha "is TSM cheap?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 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 · 217 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A f81a00425137

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alpha is a command published in the GitHub repository Zhao73/alphacouncil-agent (3 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 3,622 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.