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Strategy Discovery

Lets an agent list trading strategies and query their backtest evidence by market regime, with freshness warnings.

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37,433
Licence
MIT
Files
1 file

What it does

This skill gives an AI agent a structured way to answer questions about a catalogue of trading strategies: which exist, and how they performed in bear markets, bull markets, or structural regimes. Instead of relying on labels like 'works in bear markets: yes/no', answers are built from stored backtest results, with the evidence age shown on every row. The agent can also rebuild its local evidence cache from existing backtest run folders, but it cannot create, register, or delete strategies.

Great for

  • Quant researchers comparing existing strategies by regime and Sharpe ratio
  • Developers building on the Vibe-Trading project who need a read-only view of strategy evidence
  • Users who want to check whether backtest evidence is stale before relying on it

Skip it if

  • People looking for investment advice: the skill reports backtest statistics, not guaranteed future performance, and backtests can mislead through overfitting or cost assumptions
  • Users who want to create or backtest new strategies: the skill explicitly routes those requests to other workflows

Try asking

  • “What strategies exist in the catalogue that work in bear markets?”
  • “Show me strategies with a Sharpe ratio above 1 that clear the cost screen.”
  • “Give me the per-regime evidence behind strategy sdm:example-id.”
  • “Refresh the evidence cache from my backtest manifest, the evidence is stale.”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Strategy DiscoveryInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    strategy-discovery.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip strategy-discovery.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip strategy-discovery.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Leave min_evidence_quality at its default of adequate and cost_feasible at true to avoid weak or unverifiable rows.
  • Use get_strategy_evidence to inspect all rows for one strategy, since query results are filtered.
  • Check the stale-evidence warnings before acting on any result, and refresh the cache from backtest runs when they appear.

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from HKUDS/Vibe-Trading under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.