options-analysis

options-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ryansilk/apexvol-mcp. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,537 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for analysing stock-option prices and market volatility using live ApexVol data. It covers measures such as implied volatility, dealer gamma, expected price moves, and earnings-related setups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to judge whether options look expensive or cheap, examine volatility and dealer positioning, assess an earnings event, build option strategies, and screen stocks.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork and stale figures with fetched, time-stamped market data. It also helps separate analysis from financial advice by showing comparisons, trade-offs, and risks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to judge whether options look expensive or cheap, examine volatility and dealer positioning, assess an earnings event, build option strategies, and screen stocks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ryansilk/apexvol-mcp/options-analysis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ryansilk/apexvol-mcp --skill options-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ryansilk/apexvol-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,537 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 $0.00092 $0.01537
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00768
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00154

Measured 9d ago against content hash c97e088d2512, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

options-analysis 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 9d 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/options-analysis/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Options Analysis with ApexVol

You have access to 43 ApexVol tools for live options analytics. This skill tells you which tools to combine for common analyses and how to interpret the numbers.

Ground rules

  1. Fetch before claiming. Never state an IV rank, GEX level, or expected move from memory — call the tool. Quote the timestamp that comes back with the data.
  2. Volatility numbers are percentage points. IV 12.3 means 12.3% — never rescale. VRP is quoted as IV minus realized vol, in points.
  3. Tier gating: each tool follows the user's ApexVol plan. A 403 means that tool sits above their tier — say which tool was gated and continue with what you can access; don't retry.
  4. Rate limits: 60 requests/min, 1,000/hr. Batch your thinking: plan which 3-6 calls answer the question rather than fetching everything.
  5. Flow tools (get_options_flow, get_smart_money_flow) may report themselves unavailable; relay that honestly instead of substituting guesses.
  6. This is analysis, not financial advice — present numbers, comparisons, and trade-offs, and note key risks (assignment, earnings gaps, liquidity).

Workflow: Is volatility rich or cheap on X?

  1. get_iv_rank(ticker) — where current IV sits in its 52-week range.
  2. get_volatility_risk_premium(ticker) — IV minus realized vol.
  3. get_term_structure(ticker) — front-month vs back-month shape.
  4. Optional: get_volatility_cone(ticker) for IV vs realized across windows.

Interpretation:

  • IV rank > 50 and positive VRP → premium historically rich; selling structures have a tailwind. IV rank > 80 usually means a known catalyst — check earnings before calling it "expensive."
  • IV rank < 30 and VRP near zero or negative → options cheap relative to movement; favors long-vol/debit structures.
  • Negative VRP (realized exceeding implied) is a warning for premium sellers regardless of IV rank.
  • Term structure in backwardation (front above back) signals event risk or stress; contango is the normal state.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 9d ago First seen · 125 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A c97e088d2512

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options-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository ryansilk/apexvol-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,537 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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