run-authorized-backtest

run-authorized-backtest is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xingwudao/open-xquant. It costs 30 tokens per session (3,167 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A controlled procedure for running an approved open-xquant backtest, meaning a test of a trading strategy against historical data.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for validating an authorized strategy run from approved files while checking that paths, versions, and required artifacts stay within the allowed workspace.
Why use it?
It prevents the test from reading the wrong strategy version or changing protected specifications, audits, and reports.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for validating an authorized strategy run from approved files while checking that paths, versions, and required artifacts stay within the allowed workspace.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xingwudao/open-xquant/run-authorized-backtest
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add xingwudao/open-xquant --skill run-authorized-backtest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xingwudao/open-xquant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,167 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: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 53
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00030 $0.03167
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01584
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00633
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00317

Measured 9d ago against content hash 305afe08de30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

run-authorized-backtest 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.

agent/skills/run-authorized-backtest/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Phase Path Containment Preflight

Before any phase artifact read, write, directory creation, command, or handoff, run this preflight completely and block on any failure:

  1. Read .open-xquant/workspace.yaml. Resolve version_root from paths.versions_dir, using versions only when that key is absent. Require version_root to be a safe workspace-relative path: reject an absolute path or any .. path segment, resolve it canonically with symlinks, and require the result to stay inside the workspace.
  2. Read current.json. For normal phase work, set expected_version_id to current.json.active_version; it must exist. Only a contract that explicitly owns cross-version inspection may instead set expected_version_id from the referenced version id for that historical read. This exception never permits active-version work to consume another version.
  3. Set the intended version directory to <version_root>/<expected_version_id>/ and resolve it canonically. Require the intended version directory to remain inside the canonical version root and workspace; otherwise treat it as a symlink escape. Read version_manifest.json only from that exact directory. The manifest version_id must equal expected_version_id; for normal phase work it therefore must also equal current.json.active_version.
  4. Before using each required phase_paths value, require a non-empty workspace-relative string. Reject an absolute path and any .. path segment. Resolve <workspace>/<phase_path> canonically, including existing symlink ancestors even when the leaf will be created, and require the target to be the intended version directory or a descendant of it. A symlink escape outside that directory is invalid.
  5. On any identity or path failure, stop before phase artifact reads, writes, directory creation, commands, or handoffs. Do not normalize an unsafe path into acceptance and do not fall back to a default phase path.

Block examples when expected_version_id is v001 include strategy_store/v001/../v002/04_spec_build, strategy_store/v002/04_spec_build, /tmp/04_spec_build, and strategy_store/v001/escape/04_spec_build when escape is a symlink whose target is outside the intended version directory. An allowed custom nested phase path is strategy_store/v001/custom/phases/04_spec_build when its canonical target remains under the intended version directory.

For a new-version bootstrap, only manage-strategy-version may proceed before the new manifest exists or the new id becomes active. It must apply the same workspace-relative, traversal, canonical-containment, and symlink checks to every constructed phase path before directory creation, then write a matching manifest before publishing current.json last.

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 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 · 296 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 305afe08de30

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run-authorized-backtest is a skill published in the GitHub repository xingwudao/open-xquant (127 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 3,167 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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