colocation-latency-budget-accounting SKILL.md skillA
colocation-latency-budget-accounting 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/colocation-latency-budget-accounting@v2.0.0Pins v2.0.0 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/colocation-latency-budget-accounting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v2.0.0, committed Sep 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 26, 2026
- Size
- 8,781 bytes
- Repository stars
- 50
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when profiling the in-host hot path of a co-located server, decomposing NIC ingress to NIC egress into nanosecond phases and auditing each trace against its stage budget. Everything outside the box is a different skill.
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 profiling and auditing the "hot path" of a high-frequency trading (HFT) server in a co-located data centre. Tick-to-trade (T2T) latency is the elapsed time from hardware packet arrival at the NIC ($T_0$) to order byte transmission ($T_5$). This module decomposes T2T into discrete processing phases (NIC ingress → decode → alpha signal → pre-trade risk → binary encode → NIC egress), audits them against a total and per-phase budget, names the phase most over its budget, and reports tail jitter ($P_{99}$, $P_{99.9}$).
## When NOT to Use
- **For anything outside the box.** This skill starts at NIC ingress and stops at NIC egress. Cross-venue propagation, facility choice and cross-connects belong to `co-location-provider-selection-and-network-topology`; the end-to-end measurement harness belongs to `tick-to-trade-latency-measurement`.
- **As the instrumentation itself.** This is the *offline accounting* half. It consumes traces that some lock-free hot-path instrumentation already captured; it does not capture timestamps, and it must never be called from the hot path.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills/colocation-latency-budget-accounting@sha256:390c53816d7140c3The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_q34hnk3upaszybuq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 26, 2026 and Sep 3, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.0.0 latest | 2026-09-03 | 8527a51 | 8,781 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-08-22 | 3ed130d | 8,838 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-07 | 89d1436 | 3,353 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-30 | dfc60c7 | 3,351 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-26 | 0100af1 | 3,365 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 (8781 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_q34hnk3upaszybuq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills/colocation-latency-budget-accounting GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/390c53816d7140c37e948f384453b09a022ffa8ed767b4ae6c1550b7dc9c80d8
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