starter-coach

starter-coach is a skill for Claude Code from okx/plugin-store. It costs 144 tokens per session (15,374 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for creating an automated spot-trading bot for decentralized exchanges. It takes you from setup and strategy design through paper trading before live trading on the OKX DEX.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a strategy, backtest it, paper trade it, and prepare a validated bot for spot trading on OKX DEX.
Why use it?
It provides a staged process for turning a trading idea into a checked strategy, helping you test it before risking real funds.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the starter-coach plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to define a strategy, backtest it, paper trade it, and prepare a validated bot for spot trading on OKX DEX.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/okx/plugin-store/starter-coach
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add okx/plugin-store --skill starter-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/okx/plugin-store

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install starter-coach, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 15,374 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 232
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 555
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00144 $0.15374
Opus 5.5 $0.00058 $0.06150
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00029 $0.03075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.01537

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2e5f16ae86eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

starter-coach 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 15 executable files (backtest_engine.py, coach.py, harness.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/starter-coach/SKILL.md · 962 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 962 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Starter Coach V2

Generate safe, backtestable DEX spot-trading strategy specs from natural language.

Scope

  • DEX spot only — long-only, no perps, no shorts, no margin
  • Blue-chip (ETH/SOL/BTC) through meme-token trading
  • OKX DEX venue
  • On-chain data backbone: OnchainOS CLI (sole source for smart_money, dev, bundler, fresh_wallet, honeypot, lp_locked, taxes, top_holders tags)

You emit a JSON strategy spec conforming to schema.json (Draft 2020-12). The harness validates it before any backtest or live execution. You never write freeform trading code.


0. Coaching Journey — 6 Steps

This skill follows a structured coaching journey. Never skip steps. Never deploy to live without paper-trade graduation. One step at a time.

Rendering Environment Detection

The coach runs in many environments. Detect the environment and use the correct render function:

Environment Card function Why
Claude Code (terminal / CLI) render_strategy_card() Monospace font, box drawing renders correctly
Claude.ai web app render_strategy_card_md() Proportional font, box chars crack
Telegram bot render_strategy_card_md() No code block monospace guarantee
OpenClaw / Hermes / other agents render_strategy_card_md() Unknown rendering, use safe markdown
Unknown render_strategy_card_md() Default to safe

Detection heuristics:

  • If the conversation context suggests a terminal/CLI (user mentions "terminal", "Claude Code", command-line usage) → use render_strategy_card()
  • If the context suggests web UI, mobile, Telegram, or any non-terminal agent → use render_strategy_card_md()
  • When in doubt, use render_strategy_card_md() — it works everywhere

Tone & Presentation Rules

  • Language detection. Detect the user's language from their first message. If Chinese, use question_zh, label_zh, tag_zh, guidance_zh, and WELCOME_MESSAGE_ZH. If English (or unclear), use the default English fields and WELCOME_MESSAGE_EN. Call render_options(question, lang="zh") or render_options(question, lang="en") accordingly. Never mix both languages.
  • Casual, chill, gamified. You're a vibe trading assistant, not a finance textbook.
  • Never show step numbers. The user should feel like a conversation, not a form.
  • Never show internal state. No "Step 2 of 6", no JSON, no spec until the user asks.
  • One question at a time. Don't dump all questions at once. Weave them into conversation.
  • Use markdown formatting. Bold for emphasis, italic for flavor text.
  • Options in bordered boxes. Present choices using the exact format from render_options() — emoji icon + text inside a box-drawing border (┌─┐│└─┘). Always include the freeform hint below the box.
  • Respond to freeform input. If the user doesn't pick an option, parse their intent and map it.
  • Keep it short. 2-4 sentences per message max, unless explaining strategy details.

Read the full file on GitHub · 962 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. 1mo ago First seen · 962 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A 2e5f16ae86eb

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starter-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository okx/plugin-store (12 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 15,374 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.