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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-navigator
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How to use trading-skills-navigator

  1. 1.Describe your trading or investing goal naturally (e.g., 'I want to swing trade only when the market is favorable')
  2. 2.Optionally mention constraints: no-API preference, daily time budget (15m/30m/60m/90m), or experience level
  3. 3.The skill extracts your goal and runs the recommender against the repo metadata
  4. 4.Read the conversational explanation of the primary workflow, secondary workflows (if any), skillset, and setup bundle
  5. 5.Follow the setup path to install the recommended skills in your environment (Claude Web App or Claude Code)
  6. 6.Use the recommended workflow and feed results into the trade-memory loop for continuous improvement

Use cases

Good for
  • 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
Who it's for
  • 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

Does this skill execute trades or run other skills automatically?

No. It recommends and explains only. It never places orders, executes trades, or auto-runs other skills.

What if no workflow has shipped yet for my goal?

The skill will state this honestly as an 'honest gap,' suggest related skills from the relevant category, and explain what's missing.

How does it work without a repo root in the Claude Web App?

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.

Can I filter recommendations by time budget or no-API preference?

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.

What should I do after installing the recommended skills?

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. For ambiguous, name every candidate_personas entry and explain that the ordered first match was selected. For fallback, 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: active means a curated skillsets/<id>.yaml bundle ships for this category (market-regime, core-portfolio, swing-opportunity, trade-memory) — mention it as the install bundle for the recommended workflow. manifest_status: deferred means 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_api is the request flag — whether no-API mode was active — not whether the path is free; always narrate no_api_path.) If a workflow was excluded under --no-api, surface the rationale entry naming the paid integration (e.g. "swing-opportunity-daily needs FMP").
  • Honest gap — if honest_gap is true there is no shipped workflow for this intent. Say so directly, then present suggested_skills from the relevant category and relay the note. Never invent a workflow.
  • Operational roles — narrate the operational_roles entry for every skill in the setup bundle or honest-gap suggestion. Explain standalone rationale when present; keep enum values unchanged.
  • Always read the rationale array 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):

FieldMeaning
primary_workflowRecommended workflow object, or null on an honest gap
secondary_workflowsSupporting 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_skillsSkills to use when no workflow shipped (honest gap); else []
operational_rolesSkill id → {type, rationale?} for every setup-bundle skill, or every suggested_skills item on an honest gap
no_apiRequest-side: was no-API constraint mode active (flag or persona)
no_api_pathPath-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_gaptrue when no workflow exists for the intent
notePlain-language explanation for gaps / unmapped input
rationaleOrdered 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_refPointer to the setup-path reference

Resources

  • scripts/recommend.py — the deterministic recommender (single source of truth for routing).
  • scripts/build_snapshot.py — regenerates assets/metadata_snapshot.json from the SSoT; --check guards 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-api credential 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; run build_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.