yahoo-finance-python

yahoo-finance-python is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Jansen611/Agent-Skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,335 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python workflow for retrieving stock and other market data from Yahoo Finance through the yfinance library.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to download ticker data and inspect prices, fundamentals, dividends, or splits in Python.
Why use it?
It provides a defined way to obtain current quotes, historical prices, company details, dividends, and stock splits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jansen611/agent-skills/yahoo-finance-python
Any agent
npx skills add Jansen611/Agent-Skills --skill yahoo-finance-python
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jansen611/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,335 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00096 $0.01335
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00668
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00134

Measured 5d ago against content hash a6d819622a4c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yahoo-finance-python 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/stock_snapshot.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/yahoo-finance-python/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Yahoo Finance Python Skill

Fetch financial & market data from Yahoo Finance using ranaroussi/yfinance.

Pre-Check

Before using yfinance, follow this check sequence:

Step 1: Check if the yfinance module is importable

python -c "import yfinance" 2>/dev/null && echo "found" || echo "not found"
# or check in ~/.venv
~/.venv/bin/python -c "import yfinance" 2>/dev/null && echo "found in venv" || echo "not found in venv"

If found → skip to Usage.

Step 2: Check if ~/.venv exists

test -f ~/.venv/bin/python && echo "venv exists" || echo "venv not found"

If not found, create it:

python3 -m venv ~/.venv

Step 3: Install yfinance into ~/.venv

~/.venv/bin/pip install yfinance

After installation, verify:

~/.venv/bin/python -c "import yfinance; print(yfinance.__version__)"

Usage

All Python code below should be run with ~/.venv/bin/python to ensure the module is available.

Import

import yfinance as yf

Single Ticker

# Create a Ticker object
msft = yf.Ticker("MSFT")

# Get general info
info = msft.info
print(info.get("shortName"))
print(info.get("currentPrice"))
print(info.get("marketCap"))
print(info.get("sector"))

Historical Price Data

# Get historical price data
hist = msft.history(period="1mo")        # 1 day, 5d, 1mo, 3mo, 6mo, 1y, 2y, 5y, 10y, ytd, max
hist = msft.history(start="2025-01-01", end="2025-12-31")  # date range
hist = msft.history(period="1mo", interval="1h")  # 1m, 2m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 60m, 90m, 1h, 1d, 5d, 1wk, 1mo, 3mo

# Returns a pandas DataFrame with: Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, Dividends, Stock Splits
print(hist)

Multiple Tickers (Download)

# Download data for multiple tickers at once
data = yf.download("AAPL MSFT GOOGL", period="1mo")
print(data)

# Or with a list
tickers = ["AAPL", "MSFT", "GOOGL"]
data = yf.download(tickers, period="6mo")

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 200 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A a6d819622a4c

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yahoo-finance-python is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jansen611/Agent-Skills (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,335 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.