trader-budget SKILL.md skillA
trader-budget from jakeschincariol/trader-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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Budget Manager. Sizes every position to your budget before anything is bought: keeps a cash buffer, caps any one stock (the excess is shared out to the others), drops slices under your minimum order, rounds so every dollar is used, supports fractional or whole shares, and writes the proposed buy orders to trader/orders.json in the exact shape of Alpaca's place_stock_order (notional as a string). Nothing is placed. Use when the user says "I have $5,000", "size my trades…
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What the file says
# trader-budget
The Budget Manager turns "copy this portfolio" into "buy exactly this much of
each", inside rules the user sets once. It writes proposals only. trader-risk
checks them and trader-broker asks the user yes or no for each one.
`${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}` below is this skill's folder (where this SKILL.md lives).
```bash
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/size.py" # trader/targets.json + trader/config.json
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/size.py" --budget 5000 --write # write trader/orders.json
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/size.py" --whole-shares --prices trader/prices.json
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/size.py" --weights AAPL=22.04,AXP=17.14,GOOGL=12.62 --json
```
## What it reads and writes
| file | what |
| --- | --- |
| `trader/config.json` | the rules (start from `config.example.json` in this folder) |
| `trader/targets.json` | the weights to copy, written by trader-copycat (`targets.example.json` here) |
| `trader/prices.json` | only for whole shares or share counts (trader-alerts writes it) |
| `trader/orders.json` | the proposed buy orders it writes with `--write` |
## Step 1: set the rules once
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How to install
mdr add jakeschincariol/trader-skill/trader-budget@sha256:0fdd9aa9bbb8091fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.5189e79, 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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Source
jakeschincariol/trader-skill · 1,388 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
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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.