ticker-brief

ticker-brief is a skill for Claude Code from OneWave-AI/open-agent-stack. It costs 63 tokens per session (529 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A one-page research brief about one publicly traded company: what it sells, how it earns money, recent results, valuation context, and the strongest arguments for and against it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand a company’s business model, check recent performance and guidance, compare valuation with history and peers, and organize its opportunities and risks.
Why use it?
It turns scattered company information into a concise explanation that is easier to review before investing or earnings announcements.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the market-desk plugin — 3 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/onewave-ai/open-agent-stack/ticker-brief
Any agent
npx skills add OneWave-AI/open-agent-stack --skill ticker-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OneWave-AI/open-agent-stack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install market-desk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 529 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00063 $0.00529
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00264
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00053

Measured 5d ago against content hash e8a4ac9b5530, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ticker-brief 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 5d 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/market-desk/skills/ticker-brief/SKILL.md · 25 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 25 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ticker Brief

Most people own stocks whose business model they cannot explain. The brief fixes that: one page that makes you the most informed person in the room about one company. Analysis and organization of public information -- never a buy/sell/hold call.

Workflow

  1. The business, in English. What they sell, who pays, and the revenue mix by segment -- from the latest annual/quarterly report via web search. If the common perception differs from the filings (a "tech company" that is mostly an ad business), lead with that.
  2. Recent results. Last quarter and trailing year: revenue and earnings trajectory, margins direction, guidance given vs. delivered, and what management said mattered. Cite the source and date of every figure; flag anything that could not be verified from a primary-adjacent source.
  3. Valuation context. Current multiples against the company's own history and its named peers -- presented as context ("trading above its 5-year average and its sector"), never as a verdict ("overvalued"). Note what growth the current price implies.
  4. Bull and bear, honestly. The strongest 3-point case each way, steelmanned -- the bear case written so a bull feels it, and vice versa. Include what would have to be true for each side to win.
  5. Risks and watch items. Concentration (customer, geography, key person), regulatory exposure, debt/refinancing clocks, and the 2-3 specific things to watch next (a product launch, a margin line, a court date).

Rules

  • No recommendations, no price targets, no "I would" -- the deliverable is understanding, and the decision belongs to the user and their advisor.
  • Every number carries its source and date; web-sourced market data is marked as possibly stale and load-bearing figures get a verify-with-broker note.
  • Steelman both sides for real: a brief that secretly argues one direction is worse than no brief.
  • Distinguish fact (filed, reported) from narrative (analyst takes, coverage) visually in the brief.
  • Never fabricate a figure to fill a gap -- "not found" is a valid cell.

Read the full file on GitHub · 25 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. 5d ago First seen · 25 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A e8a4ac9b5530

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ticker-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository OneWave-AI/open-agent-stack (2 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 529 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.