operational-risk

operational-risk is a skill for Claude Code from JoelLewis/finance_skills. It costs 130 tokens per session (5,638 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for finding, measuring, and managing operational risk in trading and brokerage work. Operational risk means losses caused by failed processes, people, systems, or outside events.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design trade-error procedures, investigate trade breaks and reconciliation failures, classify loss events using the Basel framework, and create key risk indicators.
Why use it?
It helps teams organize problems such as trade errors, reconciliation failures, fraud, outages, and settlement mistakes into a consistent risk-management process.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the trading-operations plugin — 8 skills shipped together

not rated 184repo +1 1mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 130 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to design trade-error procedures, investigate trade breaks and reconciliation failures, classify loss events using the Basel framework, and create key risk indicators.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install trading-operations, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,638 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 19 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 19 Mar 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 $0.00130 $0.05638
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.02819
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.01128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00564

Measured 12d ago against content hash bb063133eae4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

operational-risk 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 12d 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/trading-operations/skills/operational-risk/SKILL.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Operational Risk

Core Concepts

Operational Risk Framework

Operational risk is the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people, and systems, or from external events. The Basel Committee's seven event-type categories map to trading operations as follows:

Basel event type Trading-operations examples
1. Internal fraud Unauthorized trading, intentional position mismarking, fictitious trade booking, front-running
2. External fraud Account takeover, phishing for trade credentials, wire fraud in settlement instructions, counterparty manipulation
3. Employment practices and workplace safety Inadequate operations training, key-person dependency, error-inducing workload
4. Clients, products, and business practices Suitability failures, improper execution, best execution violations, failure to follow client instructions
5. Damage to physical assets Data center or trading floor damage from natural disasters or civil disruption
6. Business disruption and system failures OMS outages, market data feed failures, connectivity loss, exchange gateway and clearing system downtime
7. Execution, delivery, and process management Trade errors, settlement fails, reconciliation breaks, failed corporate action processing, incorrect margin calculations (typically the largest loss category)

Risk identification involves cataloging all operational risk exposures through process mapping, risk and control self-assessments (RCSAs), loss event analysis, scenario analysis, and audit findings. Risk assessment scores each risk on likelihood and impact dimensions, typically using a 5x5 heat map. Risk monitoring tracks KRIs, loss events, and control effectiveness. Risk mitigation applies controls (preventive and detective), process redesign, technology solutions, insurance, and business continuity planning.

Trade Errors

A trade error occurs when a transaction is executed incorrectly due to human mistake, system malfunction, or miscommunication. Common trade error types include:

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 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. 12d ago First seen · 246 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A bb063133eae4

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operational-risk is a skill published in the GitHub repository JoelLewis/finance_skills (184 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 5,638 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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