simons-quant

simons-quant is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from questflowai/investorskills. It costs 37 tokens per session (379 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for testing quantitative trading ideas, which use data and statistics to make trading decisions, in a Jim Simons or Renaissance-style way.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or review signals, critique backtests, test strategies across market conditions, build portfolios from several small signals, and assess execution and model risks.
Why use it?
It replaces a single appealing market story with measurable signals, out-of-sample testing, trading-cost checks, and monitoring for ideas that stop working.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

About the project

Investor Skills is an open-source library that organizes investing judgment—such as evaluating opportunities, managing risk, and acting under uncertainty—into structured, reusable instructions for people and AI finance agents. It is designed for studying and applying investment approaches, including inside Questflow and other agent tools. The catalogue includes portable skill packages from the library.

questflowai/investorskills · 1,841 stars · on GitHub · questflow.ai

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/questflowai/investorskills/simons-quant
Any agent
npx skills add questflowai/investorskills --skill simons-quant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/questflowai/investorskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 379 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 $0.00037 $0.00379
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00189
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00038

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1ab0eb2a0dae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simons-quant 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 6d 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/simons-quant/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Simons Quant

Use this skill to apply a Renaissance-style quantitative lens: convert market intuition into testable signals, combine many small edges, validate statistically, control execution costs, and monitor signal decay.

When To Use

  • Quant strategy design or review
  • Signal research, factor testing, and backtest critique
  • Statistical arbitrage and many-small-edges portfolio thinking
  • Whether a trading rule is robust or overfit

Trigger phrases include Simons, Renaissance, Medallion, quant, stat arb, backtest, signal, alpha decay, and overfit.

Process

  1. Translate the hypothesis into measurable signals.
  2. Define universe, holding period, costs, and data availability.
  3. Test out-of-sample and across regimes.
  4. Combine weak signals into a portfolio rather than relying on one story.
  5. Model execution cost, capacity, turnover, and slippage.
  6. Monitor decay and shut down signals that stop working.

Output Format

# Simons Quant View: [Strategy]

## Verdict
Research / Paper Trade / Deploy Small / Reject / Overfit

## Hypothesis
## Signal Definitions
## Validation Plan
## Portfolio Construction
## Execution And Capacity
## Failure Modes

Guardrails

  • Do not trust in-sample backtests.
  • Do not ignore transaction costs.
  • Do not confuse correlation with durable edge.
  • Do not deploy before data leakage checks.

Questflow Use

In Questflow, this skill is best used as a signal-research and systematic-strategy review module.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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. 6d ago First seen · 55 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 1ab0eb2a0dae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simons-quant is a skill published in the GitHub repository questflowai/investorskills (1,841 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 379 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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