trading-skills-navigator
tradermonty/claude-trading-skills
Route trading goals to the right workflow, skillset, and setup path without executing trades.
What is trading-skills-navigator?
An interactive on-ramp that turns a user's trading or investing goal into a concrete recommendation: which workflow to run, which skillset it belongs to, API requirements, and setup instructions. Use this when a user asks where to start, which skill to use, or what works without paid API keys.
- Extracts natural-language trading goals and constraints (no-API preference, time budget, experience level)
- Runs a deterministic Python recommender against repo metadata to match goals to workflows and skillsets
- Narrates results conversationally, explaining primary and secondary workflows, API requirements, and honest gaps
- Provides setup bundles and installation paths for Claude Web App or Claude Code environments
- Separates no-API vs paid-API paths and surfaces which integrations are required
How to install trading-skills-navigator
npx skills add https://github.com/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills --skill trading-skills-navigatorHow to use trading-skills-navigator
- 1.Describe your trading or investing goal naturally (e.g., 'I want to swing trade only when the market is favorable')
- 2.Optionally mention constraints: no-API preference, daily time budget (15m/30m/60m/90m), or experience level
- 3.The skill extracts your goal and runs the recommender against the repo metadata
- 4.Read the conversational explanation of the primary workflow, secondary workflows (if any), skillset, and setup bundle
- 5.Follow the setup path to install the recommended skills in your environment (Claude Web App or Claude Code)
- 6.Use the recommended workflow and feed results into the trade-memory loop for continuous improvement
Use cases
- A user asks 'where do I start with swing trading?' — the skill recommends the appropriate workflow and setup bundle
- A trader wants to know what works without paid API keys — the skill filters recommendations and explains the no-API path
- A beginner describes a persona ('part-time dividend investor') — the skill routes to matching workflows and explains the learning loop
- A user asks which of 74 skills and 11 workflows applies to their goal — the skill disambiguates and explains rationale
- A user needs setup instructions for a recommended workflow — the skill walks through required, recommended, and optional skill installation
- New traders or investors asking where to start
- Traders seeking no-API or low-cost workflows
- Users deciding between multiple trading strategies or skillsets
- Anyone needing to understand which workflow matches their goal or time budget
trading-skills-navigator FAQ
No. It recommends and explains only. It never places orders, executes trades, or auto-runs other skills.
The skill will state this honestly as an 'honest gap,' suggest related skills from the relevant category, and explain what's missing.
The recommender transparently falls back to a bundled metadata snapshot (assets/metadata_snapshot.json) and produces byte-identical recommendations in both Claude Web App and Claude Code.
Yes. Mention your daily time budget (15m/30m/60m/90m) or state 'no API keys' in your goal, and the skill will filter workflows accordingly.
Run the recommended workflow, record results in trader-memory-core, and feed them into the trade-memory-loop or monthly-performance-review for continuous improvement.
Full instructions (SKILL.md)
Source of truth, from tradermonty/claude-trading-skills.
name: trading-skills-navigator description: >- Recommend the right trading workflow, skillset, API profile, and setup path from a natural-language goal. Use this as the on-ramp when a user expresses a trading or investing goal and needs to know which skill/workflow to use, where to start, or whether something works without paid API keys — e.g. "where do I start", "which skill should I use", "I want to swing trade only when the market is favorable", "what works without API keys", "どれを使えばいい", "API キー無しで 使えるものは". Routes and explains only; it never executes trades or auto-runs other skills, and it is honest when no workflow has shipped yet.
Trading Skills Navigator
The interactive on-ramp for this repository. It turns a user's goal into a concrete recommendation: which workflow to run, which skillset (skills-index category) it belongs to, the API requirement, and the setup path for Claude Web App or Claude Code.
A new user faces 74 skills + 11 workflows with no router. This skill is that
router. It is deterministic — a Python recommender (scripts/recommend.py)
consumes the repo metadata; this SKILL.md narrates the result conversationally.
When to Use
- The user expresses a trading/investing goal and asks where to start or which skill/workflow to use ("どれを使えばいい", "where do I start").
- The user asks what works without paid API keys.
- The user wants the no-API vs API path separated, or a beginner path.
- The user describes a persona ("part-time swing trader", "dividend investor", "I want to short", "I want to backtest ideas") and needs routing.
Do not use this skill to execute trades, place orders, or auto-run other skills. It recommends and explains only.
Workflow
Step 1 — Capture the goal and constraints
From the user's message, extract:
- The natural-language goal (verbatim is fine).
- Optional constraints: no-API only? a daily time budget (15m/30m/60m/90m)? experience level (beginner/intermediate/advanced)?
Ask at most one brief clarifying question only if the goal is empty or has no discernible intent. Otherwise proceed — the recommender degrades gracefully.
Step 2 — Run the recommender
python3 skills/trading-skills-navigator/scripts/recommend.py \
--query "<the user's goal, verbatim>" \
--format json
# optional: --no-api --time-budget 15m|30m|60m|90m|any
# --experience beginner|intermediate|advanced
- In Claude Code the script reads the repo-root SSoT
(
skills-index.yaml+workflows/*.yaml) automatically. - In the Claude Web App there is no repo root; the script transparently
falls back to the bundled
assets/metadata_snapshot.json. The recommendation is byte-identical in both environments — no behavior change for the user.
Step 3 — Narrate the result conversationally
Parse the JSON and explain, in the user's language:
- Primary workflow —
display_name,cadence,~estimated_minutes,api_profile. State plainly what it does and when to run it. - Routing diagnostics — read
routing_diagnostics.status. Forambiguous, name everycandidate_personasentry and explain that the ordered first match was selected. Forfallback, state that no persona matched and ask the user to rephrase; never present the beginner fallback as an exact intent match. - Secondary workflows — if any, how they relate (e.g. "run the regime check first, then this when it allows risk").
- Skillset — the
skillset.id(skills-index category).manifest_status: activemeans a curatedskillsets/<id>.yamlbundle ships for this category (market-regime, core-portfolio, swing-opportunity, trade-memory) — mention it as the install bundle for the recommended workflow.manifest_status: deferredmeans no manifest yet (e.g. honest-gap categories); the recommendation is workflow-based only. - No-API vs API — read
no_api_path:true→ the entire recommended path works without paid API keys (state this plainly);false→ tell the user which paid key(s) the path needs;null→ honest gap, no path. (no_apiis the request flag — whether no-API mode was active — not whether the path is free; always narrateno_api_path.) If a workflow was excluded under--no-api, surface therationaleentry naming the paid integration (e.g. "swing-opportunity-daily needs FMP"). - Honest gap — if
honest_gapis true there is no shipped workflow for this intent. Say so directly, then presentsuggested_skillsfrom the relevant category and relay thenote. Never invent a workflow. - Operational roles — narrate the
operational_rolesentry for every skill in the setup bundle or honest-gap suggestion. Explain standalone rationale when present; keep enum values unchanged. - Always read the
rationalearray and explain why this was recommended.
Step 4 — Explain the setup path
Read references/setup_paths.md and walk the user through installing
setup_bundle — the recommender's deterministic install union over the
primary skillset and every secondary workflow (so nothing is dropped for a
multi-workflow recommendation). Enumerate setup_bundle.required →
recommended → optional, cite setup_bundle.sources to explain why each
skill is needed, and name skillset.manifest.related_workflows for how the
bundle is run. Narrate skillset.manifest (when present) as "what the
recommended skillset is". On an honest gap install suggested_skills. Do this
for whichever environment the user is in (Claude Web App .skill upload, or
Claude Code folder copy); call out any paid API keys those skills need.
Step 5 — Point to the learning loop
Close by pointing the user at trader-memory-core and the
trade-memory-loop / monthly-performance-review workflows so every
recommended path feeds the Plan → Trade → Record → Review → Improve loop.
Output Format
The JSON the recommender emits (stable, idempotent, sort_keys):
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
primary_workflow | Recommended workflow object, or null on an honest gap |
secondary_workflows | Supporting workflows (ordered, time-budget filtered) |
skillset | {id, source: skills-index.category, manifest_status, manifest}. manifest_status is active when skillsets/<id>.yaml ships, else deferred. manifest is the 5-key view {display_name, required_skills, recommended_skills, optional_skills, related_workflows} when active, else null. Describes the primary skillset only — not the install list |
setup_bundle | {required, recommended, optional, sources} — the actionable install union over the primary skillset and every secondary workflow (deterministic, tier-deduped). This is what to install. All-empty on an honest gap (use suggested_skills) |
suggested_skills | Skills to use when no workflow shipped (honest gap); else [] |
operational_roles | Skill id → {type, rationale?} for every setup-bundle skill, or every suggested_skills item on an honest gap |
no_api | Request-side: was no-API constraint mode active (flag or persona) |
no_api_path | Path-side: does the whole recommendation (primary + every secondary) work without paid API keys? true/false; null on an honest gap. This is the DoD's API-vs-no-API separation — narrate it explicitly |
honest_gap | true when no workflow exists for the intent |
note | Plain-language explanation for gaps / unmapped input |
rationale | Ordered list of why-this-was-recommended strings |
routing_diagnostics | {status, selected_persona, candidate_personas, explanation}. status is exact, ambiguous, or fallback; candidates are all pre-constraint persona matches in deterministic order |
setup_path_ref | Pointer to the setup-path reference |
Resources
scripts/recommend.py— the deterministic recommender (single source of truth for routing).scripts/build_snapshot.py— regeneratesassets/metadata_snapshot.jsonfrom the SSoT;--checkguards drift (pre-commit + CI).scripts/intent_benchmark.py— validates the fail-closed bilingual routing corpus, persona shadowing contracts, and metamorphic invariants.references/intent_routing.md— the persona table, the 10-question contract, the--no-apicredential rule, and scoring tie-breaks.references/setup_paths.md— Claude Web App vs Claude Code setup steps.assets/metadata_snapshot.json— generated SSoT digest for the Web App fallback. Never edit by hand; runbuild_snapshot.py.assets/intent_benchmark_v1.json— 211 explicitly labeled EN/JA routing cases with 1.0 precision/recall and per-persona/workflow coverage gates.
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