recipe-basis-trade-entry

recipe-basis-trade-entry is a skill for Claude Code from krakenfx/kraken-cli. It costs 22 tokens per session (515 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A recipe for entering a basis trade: buying an asset in the spot market while shorting its futures contract when the futures premium is high enough.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare spot and futures prices, check balances and margin, calculate matched sizes, place both orders after approval, and verify the fills.
Why use it?
It helps structure a market-neutral trade, while highlighting that one unfilled side leaves a directional position and risk.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Part of the kraken-cli plugin — 59 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare spot and futures prices, check balances and margin, calculate matched sizes, place both orders after approval, and verify the fills.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/krakenfx/kraken-cli/recipe-basis-trade-entry
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add krakenfx/kraken-cli --skill recipe-basis-trade-entry
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/krakenfx/kraken-cli

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kraken-cli, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 59 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 515 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
  • 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 $0.00022 $0.00515
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00258
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00052

Measured 11d ago against content hash f27d3baf57dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recipe-basis-trade-entry 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 11d 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.

skills/recipe-basis-trade-entry/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Basis Trade Entry

PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: kraken-basis-trading, kraken-futures-risk

Enter a delta-neutral basis trade (long spot, short futures) when the basis premium is attractive.

CAUTION: Both legs must fill to be market-neutral. A single-leg fill is a directional bet.

Steps

  1. Get spot price: SPOT=$(kraken ticker BTCUSD -o json 2>/dev/null | jq -r '.[].last_price')
  2. Get futures price: FUTURES=$(kraken futures ticker PF_XBTUSD -o json 2>/dev/null | jq -r '.ticker.last')
  3. Calculate basis: BASIS=$(echo "scale=4; ($FUTURES - $SPOT) / $SPOT * 100" | bc)
  4. If basis < target threshold (e.g., 0.5% annualized), skip
  5. Check spot balance for capital: kraken balance -o json 2>/dev/null
  6. Check futures margin availability: kraken futures accounts -o json 2>/dev/null
  7. Calculate matched position sizes
  8. Execute spot buy (requires human approval): kraken order buy BTCUSD 0.01 --type limit --price $SPOT -o json 2>/dev/null
  9. Execute futures short: kraken futures order sell PF_XBTUSD 1 --type limit --price $FUTURES -o json 2>/dev/null
  10. Verify both legs filled: kraken open-orders -o json 2>/dev/null + kraken futures open-orders -o json 2>/dev/null
  11. If one leg unfilled, cancel it to avoid directional exposure

If you hit a mismatch between what you are trying to do and the CLI's interface or responses — including a mismatch between this skill and the installed CLI version's contract — feel free to submit feedback with kraken feedback.

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. 11d ago First seen · 37 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A f27d3baf57dc

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recipe-basis-trade-entry is a skill published in the GitHub repository krakenfx/kraken-cli (714 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 515 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.