What is ai-asset-pricing CLAUDE.md?

Project instructions for an empirical asset-pricing research environment, where financial data is studied with statistical models and software such as Python, R, SQL, and LaTeX.

Use them when working on financial-data extraction, factor construction, bond research, event studies, regressions, the PyBondLab package, or academic writing in the repository.

They explain the project's shared setup and rules, including where local tools are configured and which private environment files must not be committed.

How Alexander-M-Dickerson/ai-asset-pricing configures Claude Code

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Nothing to install: this file belongs to Alexander-M-Dickerson/ai-asset-pricing. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Alexander-M-Dickerson/ai-asset-pricing/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Alexander-M-Dickerson/ai-asset-pricing

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 1,678 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

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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 5.1	$0.01678	$0.01678
Opus 5.5	$0.00671	$0.00671
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00336	$0.00336
Haiku 4.5	$0.00168	$0.00168

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5e7d3bcc6835, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

ai-asset-pricing CLAUDE.md 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 2mo 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.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Scope

This is a broad empirical asset pricing research environment. Work may include WRDS extraction, factor construction, PyBondLab package development, event studies, regressions, and academic writing.

For repo-wide rules shared with Codex, treat docs/ai/ as the source of truth. This file is the Claude adapter, not the canonical home for cross-tool policy.

Local Environment

Canonical local state lives outside the repo and is reported by tools/bootstrap.py audit. Repo-root LOCAL_ENV.md and CLAUDE.local.md are optional compatibility shims only.

When running Python, psql, LaTeX, R, or other tools, use the canonical local state paths reported by tools/bootstrap.py audit for this machine.

Never commit:

LOCAL_ENV.md
CLAUDE.local.md
.claude/settings.local.json

New users should run /onboard, which wraps the shared tools/bootstrap.py flow. Under the hood, it should use the cold-start onboarding entrypoint to find or install Python 3.11+, ask whether WRDS should be configured now, then execute the bootstrap-plan commands and create canonical local state outside the repo. WRDS is optional.

Shared Python Package

Reusable Python code lives in fintools/ at the project root.

Install once using the install command from tools/bootstrap.py audit (uses uv when available, falls back to pip):

uv pip install --no-compile --python <python> -e .
# or without uv: <python> -m pip install --no-compile -e .

Import in scripts with from fintools import ....

PyBondLab

PyBondLab lives in packages/PyBondLab/.

Install once using the install command from tools/bootstrap.py audit:

cd packages/PyBondLab && uv pip install --no-compile --python <python> -e ".[performance]"
# or without uv: <python> -m pip install --no-compile -e ".[performance]"

Import with import PyBondLab as pbl.

Use docs/ai/pybondlab.md plus packages/PyBondLab/docs/ for package-level guidance. Use the .claude/agents/pybondlab-*.md files for deeper task routing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Changes

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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.

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ai-asset-pricing CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Alexander-M-Dickerson/ai-asset-pricing (59 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,678 tokens to every session, about $0.0067 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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