investment-suitability

investment-suitability is a skill for Claude Code from JoelLewis/finance_skills. It costs 153 tokens per session (2,861 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to checking whether a broker's investment recommendation fits both the product and the customer under FINRA rules. It covers reasonable-basis, customer-specific, and quantitative suitability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess recommendations involving products such as leveraged ETFs, variable annuities, alternatives, and other complex investments.
Why use it?
It helps separate the three suitability duties and highlights extra concerns for complex or leveraged investments. Regulatory details can change, so current SEC and FINRA sources still need checking.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the compliance plugin — 17 skills shipped together

not rated 184repo +1 1mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: warn 153 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to assess recommendations involving products such as leveraged ETFs, variable annuities, alternatives, and other complex investments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joellewis/finance_skills/investment-suitability
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 JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill investment-suitability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install compliance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,861 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 12 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

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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 $0.00153 $0.02861
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01430
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00572
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00286

Measured 13d ago against content hash d713f84cbafa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investment-suitability 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/compliance/skills/investment-suitability/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Investment Suitability

Regulatory status current as of June 2026 — verify effective dates, dollar thresholds, and pending rulemakings against current SEC/FINRA/FinCEN sources before advising.

Core Concepts

FINRA Rule 2111 — Suitability

The foundational rule requiring that a broker-dealer or associated person have a reasonable basis for believing a recommendation is suitable for the customer. Applies to recommendations of securities and investment strategies involving securities, including recommendations to hold. Three distinct obligations arise from Rule 2111:

Three Suitability Obligations

1. Reasonable-Basis Suitability (Rule 2111.05(a)) The firm or associated person must perform reasonable diligence to understand the nature of the recommended security or strategy, including its risks, rewards, and features. This is a product-level obligation — the representative must understand what they are recommending before recommending it to anyone. A representative who does not understand a complex product cannot satisfy reasonable-basis suitability regardless of how well it might fit a particular customer.

2. Customer-Specific Suitability (Rule 2111.05(b)) The recommendation must be suitable for the particular customer based on that customer's investment profile. The investment profile includes, but is not limited to: age, other investments, financial situation and needs, tax status, investment objectives, investment experience, investment time horizon, liquidity needs, risk tolerance, and any other information the customer discloses.

3. Quantitative Suitability (Rule 2111.05(c)) The firm or associated person must have a reasonable basis for believing that a series of recommended transactions, even if each is individually suitable, is not excessive and unsuitable when taken together in light of the customer's investment profile. The former requirement that the broker have "actual or de facto control" over the account was removed by FINRA's 2020 amendments to Rule 2111 (Regulatory Notice 20-18; SR-FINRA-2020-007, effective June 30, 2020), aligning the obligation with Reg BI's Care Obligation — quantitative suitability now turns on the recommendations alone, without any control element. Key metrics: turnover ratio (annualized), cost-to-equity ratio, and use of in-and-out trading patterns. Generally, turnover ratios above 6 and cost-to-equity ratios above 20% raise presumptive concerns.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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 · 115 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A d713f84cbafa

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investment-suitability is a skill published in the GitHub repository JoelLewis/finance_skills (184 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 2,861 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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