economic-indicator-tracker

economic-indicator-tracker is a skill for Claude Code from mahmoud20138/Tradecraft. It costs 83 tokens per session (987 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system for tracking economic indicators, which are published measures used to describe current activity or suggest where the economy may be heading.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps monitor measures such as manufacturing surveys, building permits, consumer confidence, jobless claims, employment, industrial production, retail sales, GDP, and the yield curve.
Why use it?
It organizes indicators by whether they lead, match, or follow economic changes, along with their timing, importance, and related currencies.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the tradecraft plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps monitor measures such as manufacturing surveys, building permits, consumer confidence, jobless claims, employment, industrial production, retail sales, GDP, and the yield curve.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mahmoud20138/tradecraft/economic-indicator-tracker
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mahmoud20138/Tradecraft --skill economic-indicator-tracker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mahmoud20138/Tradecraft

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tradecraft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 987 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.
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 $0.00083 $0.00987
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00494
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00099

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6e5a8db671dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

economic-indicator-tracker 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/tradecraft/skills/economic-indicator-tracker/SKILL.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

Economic Indicator Tracker

INDICATORS = {
    "leading": [
        {"name": "PMI Manufacturing", "frequency": "monthly", "impact": "HIGH", "pairs": ["USD", "EUR", "GBP"]},
        {"name": "Building Permits", "frequency": "monthly", "impact": "MEDIUM", "pairs": ["USD"]},
        {"name": "Consumer Confidence", "frequency": "monthly", "impact": "MEDIUM", "pairs": ["USD", "EUR"]},
        {"name": "Yield Curve 2-10", "frequency": "daily", "impact": "HIGH", "pairs": ["USD"]},
        {"name": "New Orders Index", "frequency": "monthly", "impact": "MEDIUM", "pairs": ["USD"]},
        {"name": "Stock Market (SPX)", "frequency": "daily", "impact": "HIGH", "pairs": ["ALL"]},
        {"name": "Initial Jobless Claims", "frequency": "weekly", "impact": "MEDIUM", "pairs": ["USD"]}],
    "coincident": [
        {"name": "Non-Farm Payrolls", "frequency": "monthly", "impact": "HIGH", "pairs": ["USD"]},
        {"name": "Industrial Production", "frequency": "monthly", "impact": "MEDIUM", "pairs": ["USD", "EUR"]},
        {"name": "Retail Sales", "frequency": "monthly", "impact": "HIGH", "pairs": ["USD", "GBP"]},
        {"name": "GDP", "frequency": "quarterly", "impact": "HIGH", "pairs": ["ALL"]}],
    "lagging": [
        {"name": "CPI / Inflation", "frequency": "monthly", "impact": "HIGH", "pairs": ["ALL"]},
        {"name": "Unemployment Rate", "frequency": "monthly", "impact": "HIGH", "pairs": ["USD"]},
        {"name": "Core PCE", "frequency": "monthly", "impact": "HIGH", "pairs": ["USD"]},
        {"name": "Average Hourly Earnings", "frequency": "monthly", "impact": "MEDIUM", "pairs": ["USD"]}],
}

class EconomicIndicatorTracker:
    @staticmethod
    def cycle_position(leading_trend: str, coincident_trend: str, lagging_trend: str) -> dict:
        if leading_trend == "improving" and coincident_trend == "improving":
            phase = "EXPANSION — risk-on currencies favored (AUD, NZD, CAD)"
        elif leading_trend == "deteriorating" and coincident_trend == "improving":
            phase = "LATE CYCLE — be cautious, peak may be near"
        elif leading_trend == "deteriorating" and coincident_trend == "deteriorating":
            phase = "CONTRACTION — safe havens favored (JPY, CHF, USD, Gold)"
        elif leading_trend == "improving" and coincident_trend == "deteriorating":
            phase = "EARLY RECOVERY — selective risk-on, high-beta currencies"
        else:
            phase = "TRANSITION — mixed signals"
        return {"phase": phase, "leading": leading_trend, "coincident": coincident_trend, "lagging": lagging_trend}

    @staticmethod
    def surprise_index(actual: float, forecast: float, previous: float) -> dict:
        surprise = actual - forecast
        beat = actual > forecast
        return {
            "surprise": round(surprise, 3),
            "beat_expectations": beat,
            "vs_previous": "improving" if actual > previous else "deteriorating",
            "market_impact": "Positive surprise — currency should strengthen" if beat else "Negative surprise — currency weakens",
        }
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 · 65 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 6e5a8db671dc

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economic-indicator-tracker is a skill published in the GitHub repository mahmoud20138/Tradecraft (15 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 987 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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