tick-collection-ops

tick-collection-ops is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (2,550 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An operations guide for collecting market-price ticks from MetaTrader 5, a trading platform. It documents the current Windows broker-server setup, data flow, gap checks, and restart recovery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check tick-data gaps, recover collection after a restart, operate the MetaTrader 5 tasks, and troubleshoot the path from the trading terminal to the NATS message system.
Why use it?
It gives operators a current reference for diagnosing missing data and restarting the collection system. It also prevents them from following the retired Linux and Wine setup.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the mql5 plugin — 6 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

Good fit Use it to check tick-data gaps, recover collection after a restart, operate the MetaTrader 5 tasks, and troubleshoot the path from the trading terminal to the NATS message system.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/tick-collection-ops
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.

Any agent
npx skills add terrylica/cc-skills --skill tick-collection-ops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mql5, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,550 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 high

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 →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 220
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 168
    Code scans file system directories looking for sensitive files. This could be reconnaissance for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove unnecessary filesystem scanning. If file access is needed, use explicit, scoped paths. Avoid reading ~/.ssh, ~/.aws, or credential directories.
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 $0.00080 $0.02550
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01275
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00510
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00255

Measured 5d ago against content hash f0fb2bab69a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tick-collection-ops 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/mql5/skills/tick-collection-ops/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MT5 Tick Collection Operations

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

⚠️ HOST SUPERSEDED — 2026-08-07

MetaTrader 5 no longer runs on gpu-host-1. It runs exclusively on the FXView broker VPS (Tailscale host fxview-mt5, 100.126.202.32, Windows), on demo account 400364. The Mac-local Wine bench was deleted 2026-08-06; gpu-host-1's Wine terminal + its xvfb/xfce/x11vnc desktop and fxview-sidecar are being decommissioned.

On the VPS the topology is Windows scheduled tasks, not Linux systemd:

Concern gpu-host-1 (retired) FXView VPS (current)
Terminal mt5.service under Wine, DISPLAY=:99 terminal64.exe, native Windows, real session
Tick rings /dev/shm/tick_ring_<SYM> C:\odb-tickrings\tick_ring_<SYM>
Ring → bus odb-tapegateway.exe → task OdbTickRingToNatsTapeGateway
Bus nats-server.exe :4222 → task OdbTapeBusNatsJetStreamServer
Orders order-service :50060 → task ODB-MT5-OrderService
Symbols EUR/GBP/XAU/XAG EUR/GBP/XAU only (silver excluded per directive 2026-05-26)
Service control systemctl Get-ScheduledTask / Start-ScheduledTask

Reach it with ssh fxview-mt5. PowerShell over SSH eats $_ under shell quoting — pass commands base64-encoded via powershell -NoProfile -EncodedCommand <base64-utf16le>.

Everything below still describes the Linux/Wine deployment. It is retained because the EA, the tick_writer.dll ring format and the gap-detection reasoning are unchanged and still authoritative — only the HOST and the service manager moved. Do not use it to stand up a new Linux MT5.

Canonical: opendeviationbar-patterns/docs/adr/2026-08-07-retire-gpu-host-1-as-a-metatrader-host-…md and docs/decision-register-metatrader-hosting-and-market-data-source-provenance.md.

Operate, monitor, and troubleshoot the zero-gap tick collection system running on Linux via Wine.

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 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 · 223 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A f0fb2bab69a1

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tick-collection-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (72 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 2,550 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-05.

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