research-goal

research-goal is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HKUDS/Vibe-Trading. It costs 0 tokens per session (618 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for setting a specific objective for finance research, tracking the criteria needed for a conclusion, and attaching supporting evidence as the work progresses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for multi-step investment comparisons, strategy reviews, evidence audits, and research tasks that need a supported final conclusion.
Why use it?
Long research tasks can lose their original question or reach conclusions without enough support. This keeps the work focused and separates research from placing or executing trades.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for multi-step investment comparisons, strategy reviews, evidence audits, and research tasks that need a supported final conclusion.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hkuds/vibe-trading/research-goal
About the project

Vibe-Trading is a personal trading agent that gives an AI system tools for market analysis, algorithmic trading, backtesting, and related workflows. It is for users who want an agent to research and evaluate trading strategies or manage simulated and other trading activities. The catalogue contains skills that expose these trading capabilities to compatible agents.

HKUDS/Vibe-Trading · 33,177 stars · on GitHub · vibetrading.wiki

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 HKUDS/Vibe-Trading --skill research-goal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 618 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. ✓ AI security review Fable 5.1 · 6 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review 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 $0.00000 $0.00618
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00062

Measured 8d ago against content hash eeaf0bb21cbf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-goal 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 8d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

agent/src/skills/research-goal/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.

Goal-Driven Finance Research

Use this skill when a user asks for a multi-step finance research task, comparison, audit, thesis review, or "keep working until the answer is supported." The goal runtime is for research only. Never use it to place, submit, or execute trades.

When to Attach a Goal

Start a goal when the task has any of these traits:

  • It needs multiple criteria before a conclusion is credible.
  • It compares strategies, assets, regimes, or evidence sources.
  • It may continue across turns or require a final audit.
  • The user asks for "long driven task", "goal", "审计", "对比", "研究结论", or similar.

Do not start a goal for a tiny one-shot answer unless the user explicitly asks.

Tool Flow

  1. Call start_research_goal with a concise research-only objective.
  2. Include 3-5 acceptance criteria when the user provided enough context.
  3. Before continuing an existing task, call get_research_goal.
  4. After a market-data lookup, backtest, document read, web source, or manual reasoning step, call add_goal_evidence.
  5. Link evidence to a criterion using criterion_id or criterion_index.
  6. When all required criteria have been audited, call update_research_goal_status.

Criteria Template

Use this shape when the user did not provide criteria:

  • Define the research-only thesis and symbol universe.
  • Collect fresh market, benchmark, or artifact evidence.
  • Compare alternatives or a control baseline.
  • Record caveats, contradictions, and the non-advice boundary.

Evidence Rules

  • Keep evidence short and concrete.
  • Prefer artifact-backed evidence when a tool produced a run or file.
  • Include run_id, artifact_path, source_provider, source_type, symbol_universe, benchmark, and data_as_of when known.
  • tool_call_id is traceability only. Completion needs verified evidence from an existing run_id or an allowed artifact_path with a matching sha256 hash.
  • Do not mark live trading instructions as evidence. Refuse or reframe them as research-only analysis.

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. 8d ago First seen · 58 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A eeaf0bb21cbf

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research-goal is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/Vibe-Trading (33,177 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 618 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 2026-09-03.

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