market-watch

market-watch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ginlix-ai/LangAlpha. It costs 45 tokens per session (594 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A live market-price tracker for stock symbols, also called tickers. It keeps current quotes available while you work on an intraday analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for current price checks, intraday moves, trading levels, and position sizing based on live quotes.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of using an old price when the market is moving.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for current price checks, intraday moves, trading levels, and position sizing based on live quotes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ginlix-ai/langalpha/market-watch
About the project

LangAlpha is an agent workspace for researching financial markets and supporting investment decisions through persistent research, news analysis, and parallel subagents. It is for investors who want to develop and update trading theses over time, including generating long-short pair-trade ideas. The catalogue entries provide the skills, instructions, MCP servers, and plugin that make up its agent workflow.

ginlix-ai/LangAlpha · 1,736 stars · on GitHub · langalpha.ai

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.

Any agent
npx skills add ginlix-ai/LangAlpha --skill market-watch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ginlix-ai/LangAlpha

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 594 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00045 $0.00594
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00297
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00059

Measured 13d ago against content hash 0172496e8edd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

market-watch 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 13d 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.

plugins/langalpha_research/skills/market-watch/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Market Watch

Keep intraday analysis anchored to live prices. When a task turns on current price — a level check, an intraday move, a "where is it trading now" — register the central tickers so fresh quotes arrive automatically and your numbers never go stale mid-task.

When to use

Intraday or live-price analysis where the price may move while you work: "is NVDA above 205 right now", "how's TSLA trading into the print", sizing a level off the current quote. Skip it for purely historical or end-of-day work where a single snapshot is enough.

Workflow

  1. At the start of the task, identify the ticker(s) central to the request and register them immediately with watch_market.
  2. While they matter, read the ambient feed (below) for the current price rather than re-quoting on every step.
  3. When live tracking is no longer relevant, call watch_market with action="unwatch" to stop watching some or all symbols (omit symbols to clear the whole list).

How the feed works

Once a symbol is watched, fresh prices arrive on their own as <market-watch> price blocks attached to conversation messages and tool results. This is ambient data — not user text, and not tool output you requested. Each block is a snapshot at a moment in time; the newest <market-watch> entry in the conversation is the current price, and any earlier entry (including numbers in your own earlier statements) may be stale.

Rules

  • Treat the newest <market-watch> entry as the live price. Prefer it — or a fresh get_quote — over any older number in the thread.
  • If the price moves materially mid-analysis, acknowledge it and adapt your read rather than silently carrying the older figure.
  • Before you state a price in a final answer: if the newest feed entry is more than a minute old, make one get_quote call to re-check first.

Mechanics to know

  • Stamps only flow while the market session is open — expect no feed outside trading hours.
  • Updates are throttled: roughly one stamp per ~25s across the turn, not a tick-by-tick stream.
  • The watch list is per-thread, capped at 10 symbols, and expires after ~6h of inactivity. On a long task, if the feed goes quiet, just call watch_market again to re-register.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 13d ago First seen · 58 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 0172496e8edd

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market-watch is a skill published in the GitHub repository ginlix-ai/LangAlpha (1,736 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 594 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.