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.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00037 | $0.00682 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00273 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00136 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00068 |
Grade A, and why
edge-hint-extractor 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 1mo 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to edge-hint-extractor — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Edge Hint Extractor
Overview
Convert raw observation signals (market_summary, anomalies, news reactions) into structured edge hints.
This skill is the first stage in the split workflow: observe -> abstract -> design -> pipeline.
When to Use
- You want to turn daily market observations into reusable hint objects.
- You want LLM-generated ideas constrained by current anomalies/news context.
- You need a clean
hints.yamlinput for concept synthesis or auto detection.
Prerequisites
- Python 3.9+
PyYAML- Optional inputs from detector run:
market_summary.jsonanomalies.jsonnews_reactions.csvornews_reactions.json
Output
hints.yamlcontaining:hintslist- generation metadata
- rule/LLM hint counts
Workflow
- Gather observation files (
market_summary,anomalies, optional news reactions). - Run
scripts/build_hints.pyto generate deterministic hints. - Optionally augment hints with LLM ideas via one of two methods:
- a.
--llm-ideas-cmd— pipe data to an external LLM CLI (subprocess). - b.
--llm-ideas-file PATH— load pre-written hints from a YAML file (for Claude Code workflows where Claude generates hints itself).
- a.
- Pass
hints.yamlinto concept synthesis or auto detection.
Note: --llm-ideas-cmd and --llm-ideas-file are mutually exclusive.
Quick Commands
Rule-based only (default output to reports/edge_hint_extractor/hints.yaml):
python3 skills/edge-hint-extractor/scripts/build_hints.py \
--market-summary /tmp/edge-auto/market_summary.json \
--anomalies /tmp/edge-auto/anomalies.json \
--news-reactions /tmp/news_reactions.csv \
--as-of 2026-02-20 \
--output-dir reports/
Rule + LLM augmentation (external CLI):
python3 skills/edge-hint-extractor/scripts/build_hints.py \
--market-summary /tmp/edge-auto/market_summary.json \
--anomalies /tmp/edge-auto/anomalies.json \
--llm-ideas-cmd "python3 /path/to/llm_ideas_cli.py" \
--output-dir reports/
What ships with it
6 files 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 83 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 875efa932dbd
edge-hint-extractor is a skill published in the GitHub repository mphinance/alpha-skills (32 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 682 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to edge-hint-extractor, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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