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# AGENTS.md — Global AI Agent Guidance & Skill Protocol
This repository contains structured algorithmic trading skills following the
[agentskills.io](https://agentskills.io) open specification, located in `skills/`.
## 🤖 Instructions for AI Coding Agents
When tasked with generating, reviewing, testing, or refactoring algorithmic trading, market data, backtesting, financial ML, or broker integration code:
1. **Skill Discovery**:
- Query `index.json` (one object with a `skills` array and a `subdomains` count map) or
inspect frontmatter across `skills/*/SKILL.md`.
- Every skill's `description` starts with "Use when …". Match on the situation you are in
(order placement after a timeout, a backtest that reads a bar's own close), not on the
general subject area.
2. **Standard Workflow Execution**:
- Read `skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md`.
- Check `## When NOT to Use` **first** — it names the cases the skill does not cover and
hands each to the skill that does. Applying a correct playbook to the wrong problem is
its own failure mode.
- Follow the `## Workflow` section in order.
- Cross-check `## Common Pitfalls` to prevent duplicate fills, lookahead bias, unhandled
network timeouts, or capital over-exposure.
3. **Reference Implementation & Regulatory Specs**:
- Consult `skills/<skill-name>/references/standards.md` for regulatory touchpoints
(SEC Rule 15c3-5, Reg NMS, EU MiFID II / RTS 6, UK FCA, SEBI, ISDA) with their sources.
- Refer to helper implementations in `skills/<skill-name>/scripts/` for reusable Python
patterns. Each helper is standalone — it imports nothing from other skills.
4. **Validation & Verification**:
- Validate against `skills/<skill-name>/assets/checklist.md`.
- Run unit tests: `python -m unittest discover -s skills/<skill-name>/scripts`.
- Verify repo structural integrity: `python tools/validate_skills.py`.
## ⚙️ Repository Tools & Commands
- `python tools/validate_skills.py` — frontmatter, required sections, cross-references,
scripts layout and plugin packaging for every skill.
- `skills-ref validate skills/<skill-name>` — the agentskills.io reference validator.
- `python tools/build_index.py` — rebuilds `index.json` (`--check` verifies it is current).
- `python tools/build_marketplace.py` — rebuilds the per-domain plugin marketplace.
- `python tools/run_all_tests.py` — every skill's unittest suite, each in its own subprocess.
Add `--skill <name>` to run one while iterating.
- `python -m unittest discover -s tests` — core repository tests.
## 🔒 Non-negotiables when writing trading code
- Order placement, modification and cancellation are idempotent via a client-supplied order ID
plus a local ledger. A broker timeout means **unknown**, never **failed**; so does a
transport-level error such as a `NetworkException`, gateway timeout or 5xx. Only an explicit
broker rejection means failed. Never retry an ambiguous order state in an unbounded loop.
- Risk limits (drawdown, position size, message rate) live in a module with veto power over
the strategy engine, never inside the strategy function they constrain. Clearing a halt is
an audited operation with an operator and a reason.
- Backtests must not use a bar's own close before that bar completes; feature engineering must
be point-in-time correct.