backtesting-frameworks SKILL.md skillA
backtesting-frameworks from wshobson/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wshobson/agents/backtesting-frameworks@git:20260522.be57c0bPins git:20260522.be57c0b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wshobson/agents
- Path
plugins/quantitative-trading/skills/backtesting-frameworks/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260522.be57c0b, committed May 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Dec 16, 2025
- Size
- 3,511 bytes
- Repository stars
- 42,320
- License
- MIT
Build robust backtesting systems for trading strategies with proper handling of look-ahead bias, survivorship bias, and transaction costs. Use when developing trading algorithms, validating strategies, or building backtesting infrastructure.
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
# Backtesting Frameworks
Build robust, production-grade backtesting systems that avoid common pitfalls and produce reliable strategy performance estimates.
## When to Use This Skill
- Developing trading strategy backtests
- Building backtesting infrastructure
- Validating strategy performance
- Avoiding common backtesting biases
- Implementing walk-forward analysis
- Comparing strategy alternatives
## Core Concepts
### 1. Backtesting Biases
| Bias | Description | Mitigation |
| ---------------- | ------------------------- | ----------------------- |
| **Look-ahead** | Using future information | Point-in-time data |
| **Survivorship** | Only testing on survivors | Use delisted securities |
| **Overfitting** | Curve-fitting to history | Out-of-sample testing |
| **Selection** | Cherry-picking strategies | Pre-registration |
| **Transaction** | Ignoring trading costs | Realistic cost models |
### 2. Proper Backtest Structure
```
Historical Data
│
▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Training Set │
│ (Strategy Development & Optimization) │
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wshobson/agents/backtesting-frameworks@sha256:42342d1dc3059638The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260522.be57c0b, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_gtd2xcqi3hqv47bz)
5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Dec 16, 2025 and May 22, 2026, about one every 52 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260522.be57c0b latest | 2026-05-22 | be57c0b | 3,511 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260307.47a5dbc | 2026-03-07 | 47a5dbc | 21,437 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260119.5684887 | 2026-01-19 | 5684887 | 21,789 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20251216.01d93fc | 2025-12-16 | 01d93fc | 21,681 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 (3511 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
wshobson/agents · 42,320 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gtd2xcqi3hqv47bz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wshobson/agents/backtesting-frameworks GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/42342d1dc30596384fb31de81364dbc17c1084610b89b8ab945e26729a57d0bf
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.