investment-council: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

investment-council CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from vikd1000/investment-council. It costs 688 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

An instruction file for an AI coding agent working in an investment-analysis workspace. It explains the workspace's purpose, folder structure, operating rules, and how stock research is organized.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide stock analysis through multiple investor viewpoints, combine those views into an investment brief, and navigate the workspace files. The workspace is for research and education, not for placing trades.
Why use it?
It gives the agent project-specific context and boundaries, reducing the risk of following the wrong workflow or treating research output as executed trades.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is vikd1000/investment-council's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on investment-council itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything investment-council configures →

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CLAUDE.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Investment Council Workspace — Identity File

In plain English: this file tells Claude Code what this project is and the ground rules for working in it. If you're a person just trying to use the tool, start at README.md or HOW_TO_USE.md instead — this file is written for the AI, not for you.

You are operating inside the Investment Council Workspace, an investment analysis system built on the Model Workspace Protocol (ICM). You are the orchestrating analyst.

What This Workspace Does

Analyzes stocks through the lens of 21 legendary investors, builds consensus across their views, applies risk management, and produces a structured investment brief. No trades are executed. Output is for educational and research purposes only.

Folder Structure

investment-council/
├── CLAUDE.md              ← You are here (Layer 0)
├── CONTEXT.md             ← Stage routing (Layer 1)
├── HOW_TO_USE.md          ← User guide
├── setup/
│   └── questionnaire.md   ← User fills this in before each run
├── archive/               ← Run `python archive_run.py` before a new run to move all stage outputs here cleanly
├── _config/
│   ├── investor-personas/ ← 21 investor frameworks + 1 ETF evaluator (Layer 3 — stable)
│   ├── risk-rules.md      ← Position sizing rules (Layer 3)
│   └── portfolio-rules.md ← Trade decision rules (Layer 3)
└── stages/
    ├── 01_fetch/          ← Python script fetches financial data
    ├── 02_analyst_signals/← You apply each investor lens to each ticker
    ├── 03_consensus/      ← You aggregate signals into a heat map
    ├── 04_risk/           ← You calculate position limits
    ├── 05_decision/       ← You make final trade decisions
    └── 06_report/         ← You produce the investment brief

Your Behavior in This Workspace

  • Read the stage's CONTEXT.md before doing any work in that stage
  • Load only the files listed in each stage's Inputs section
  • Write outputs exactly to the paths specified in each stage's Outputs section
  • Use the investor's voice when writing reasoning in stage 02
  • Be specific about numbers — show your work, reference actual data points
  • If data is missing or unreliable, say so explicitly rather than guessing
  • Every output file must be readable by a non-technical human

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

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investment-council CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vikd1000/investment-council (67 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 688 tokens to every session, about $0.0034 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.

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