strategy-discovery

strategy-discovery is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HKUDS/Vibe-Trading. It costs 62 tokens per session (4,525 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only catalogue for finding existing trading strategies and checking their current evidence. It reports results by market condition, such as rising or falling markets, using stored backtests rather than simple labels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover strategies, inspect their status and regime-specific results, and refresh evidence from completed backtests.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unsupported claims about when a strategy works and shows how recent the supporting evidence is. A separate refresh process can rebuild the evidence cache from local backtest results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to discover strategies, inspect their status and regime-specific results, and refresh evidence from completed backtests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hkuds/vibe-trading/strategy-discovery
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 · 33,258 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 strategy-discovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,525 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • 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 $0.00062 $0.04525
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.02263
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00905
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00453

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7f774c0338c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategy-discovery 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 9d 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.

agent/src/skills/strategy-discovery/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Strategy Discovery

Purpose

Strategy Discovery is the single entry point for two questions: what strategies exist, and what state are they in. It fronts the Alpha Zoo registry and the SDM strategy store with one facade and answers with computed evidence instead of labels, and it reports the freshness of that evidence on every returned row.

It supersedes the earlier closed-registry attempt. That design attached boolean scenario tags (works in bear markets: yes/no) to a curated list. This skill replaces tags with per-regime evidence rows: every claim that a strategy works in a regime must come from a computed, reproducible backtest stored as evidence, never from curation or inference.

The three query tools are read-only: they never register, mutate, or delete strategies. To add or change strategies, use the strategy-dev-manager and alpha-zoo workflows — Strategy Discovery only reports what those workflows have produced. The fourth tool, refresh_strategy_evidence, is the single write in the surface: it rebuilds ONLY the disposable evidence cache from local backtest run artifacts (see Populating & Refreshing Evidence and Composition Guarantee).

When to Use

Decision tree for routing user requests:

  • User asks what strategies exist / "list available strategies" → list_strategies(limit=..., offset=..., source=...)
  • User asks which strategy fits a regime or threshold ("what works in bear markets?", "anything with Sharpe above 1?") → query_strategies(regime=..., min_sharpe=..., ...)
  • User asks for the evidence behind one specific strategyget_strategy_evidence(strategy_id=..., regime=...)
  • User asks to populate or refresh the evidence cache ("turn my backtest runs into evidence", "the evidence is stale, refresh it") → refresh_strategy_evidence(manifest_path=...) — this rebuilds the disposable cache from run artifacts; it is NOT strategy creation or registration
  • User asks to create, backtest, or register a strategy → this is NOT this skill; route to strategy-generate / strategy-dev-manager / alpha-zoo

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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. 9d ago First seen · 213 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 7f774c0338c2

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strategy-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/Vibe-Trading (33,258 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 4,525 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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