drawdown-circuit-breaker

drawdown-circuit-breaker is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tradermonty/claude-trading-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,125 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local trading-risk check that decides whether taking new trade risk is allowed based on realized profit and loss, losing streaks, and drawdown limits. Drawdown means a decline from an account's earlier high point.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before screening or sizing swing trades, after losses or partial exits, and during daily planning with local trader-memory-core YAML files.
Why use it?
It provides a recorded warning or recommendation when recent losses or daily, weekly, or monthly limits suggest pausing, without placing broker-side blocks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

not rated 2.8krepo +32 today A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 54 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it before screening or sizing swing trades, after losses or partial exits, and during daily planning with local trader-memory-core YAML files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/drawdown-circuit-breaker
About the project

Claude Trading Skills is a collection of Claude Code workflows for individual investors who want structured market analysis, charting, economic-calendar review, screening, trade planning, journaling, and risk management. It is designed for people using long-term investing, ETFs, dividend stocks, and disciplined swing trading, and the catalogue entries package these workflows as skills, agents, commands, settings, and instructions.

tradermonty/claude-trading-skills · 2,813 stars · on GitHub · tradermonty.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tradermonty/claude-trading-skills --skill drawdown-circuit-breaker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,125 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
  • Socket pass 30 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 30 Aug 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00054 $0.02125
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01063
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00425
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00213

Measured 13d ago against content hash 4a2a9302a083, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drawdown-circuit-breaker 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 13d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/_market_calendar.py, scripts/check_circuit_breaker.py, scripts/tests/conftest.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/drawdown-circuit-breaker/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Drawdown Circuit Breaker

Overview

Evaluate whether the trader should take new trade risk today based on account-level realized P&L and recent terminal trade outcomes. This skill reads trader-memory-core thesis YAML files only. It produces a circuit_breaker_decision artifact that complements the market-side exposure_decision from exposure-coach.

The circuit breaker is a recommendation and recordkeeping tool. It does not replace human judgment, and it does not enforce broker-side blocks or automated order rejection.

When to Use

  • Before screening or sizing any new swing trade candidate
  • After a losing trade or partial trim to check whether a cooldown is active
  • During daily planning when trader-memory-core contains recent closed or partially closed positions
  • As a workflow gate before swing-opportunity-daily proceeds to candidate generation
  • When reviewing whether daily, weekly, or monthly loss limits have been breached

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.9+
  • Local trader-memory-core thesis YAML files, usually under state/theses/
  • Account size in dollars
  • No API keys or network access required

Workflow

Step 1: Read Trader Memory State

Point the script at the thesis state directory:

python3 skills/drawdown-circuit-breaker/scripts/check_circuit_breaker.py \
  --state-dir state/theses \
  --account-size 100000 \
  --output-dir reports/

The script scans every th_*.yaml file and reads realized P&L from each thesis status_history[] ledger entry. It does not use _index.json for P&L, because the index is a lightweight lookup file and does not contain the required realized-P&L ledger.

After validating each file, the script groups valid theses by the case-sensitive, whitespace-trimmed thesis_id. If two or more valid files share an ID, it excludes the entire duplicate group from P&L and losing-streak calculations, reports every actual source path, and returns PARTIAL + HALTED until the duplicate state is repaired and the decision is rerun. metrics.theses_scanned counts only accepted theses with unique IDs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. 13d ago First seen · 176 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 4a2a9302a083

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drawdown-circuit-breaker is a skill published in the GitHub repository tradermonty/claude-trading-skills (2,813 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,125 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 2026-08-30.

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