alternative-data-vendor-due-diligence-checklist SKILL.md skillA
alternative-data-vendor-due-diligence-checklist from himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills/alternative-data-vendor-due-diligence-checklist@v1.3.0Pins v1.3.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills
- Path
skills/alternative-data-vendor-due-diligence-checklist/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.3.0, committed Sep 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 13, 2026
- Size
- 11,940 bytes
- Repository stars
- 50
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when onboarding an alternative data vendor, triaging legal rights, material non-public information exposure, scraping and computer-misuse risk, terms of service and personal data handling before the dataset reaches research.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
## When to Use Use this skill when onboarding a new Alternative Data vendor (e.g., credit card receipts, satellite imagery, web-scraped job postings, social media sentiment). Hedge funds face massive legal and reputational risk if they ingest **Material Non-Public Information (MNPI)** or illegally obtained data (e.g., violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) or GDPR/CCPA). This skill automates the primary triage of the vendor's Due Diligence Questionnaire (DDQ) and emits a versioned, audit-serializable `DiligenceRecord` that downstream pipelines (e.g. `alternative-data-feature-integration`) consume as the gating artifact. ## When NOT to Use This skill is a **triage gate only**. An `APPROVED` verdict means the vendor cleared the legal-rights, MNPI, scraping/CFAA, ToS, and PII/anonymization checks — it is **not** a complete compliance clearance. The following are out of scope and belong to other skills: - **Data quality, coverage, and freshness** of the delivered dataset. - **Point-in-time correctness** and lookahead-safe availability lag. - **Cross-border data-transfer lawfulness** (GDPR Chapter V, SCCs, adequacy decisions). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills/alternative-data-vendor-due-diligence-checklist@sha256:f0ebf8284f2326d4The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.3.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 13, 2026 and Sep 4, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| v1.3.0 latest | 2026-09-04 | 48bcc05 | 11,940 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.0 | 2026-09-03 | 8527a51 | 11,939 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.0 | 2026-09-03 | 64e8b01 | 11,792 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.0 | 2026-09-03 | eb7108c | 11,870 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-08-13 | 097e217 | 8,898 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11940 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills · 50 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6orre5zbhocjvfq4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills/alternative-data-vendor-due-diligence-checklist GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f0ebf8284f2326d4a4556b91d511243387eebaa8119047241e3824892c477e5e
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