alpha-zoo skillA
alpha-zoo is agent-read markdown (skill) from hkuds/vibe-trading: Browse and bench the bundled alpha zoos — prebuilt cross-sectional factor libraries (Kakushadze 101, GTJA 191, Qlib 158, Fama-French / Carhart). Use when the user asks "which alphas exist", wants metadata on a named alpha, or wants to run IC/IR on a whole zoo over a universe..
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What the file says
# Alpha Zoo ## Purpose When the user asks about prebuilt cross-sectional alphas — Kakushadze 101, GTJA 191, Qlib 158, Fama-French / Carhart — or wants to bench a whole zoo on an investable universe (CSI 300, S&P 500, BTC-USDT, ...), this skill orients you. The zoo is the curated library; the bench is the evaluator. ## Tools Available | Tool | When to use | |------|------| | `alpha_zoo` | Browse the library. `action=list_alphas` to enumerate (filterable by zoo / theme / universe), `action=get_alpha` for one alpha's metadata, `action=health` for registry load status. | | `alpha_bench` | Run IC / IR on one alpha or a whole zoo over a universe + period. Emits an HTML report. | | `factor_analysis` | Ad-hoc factor evaluation from a user-supplied factor CSV + return CSV. Use this when the user has their own factor (not in the zoo). | ## Decision Tree - "list all momentum alphas" → `alpha_zoo` with `action=list_alphas, theme=momentum`. - "show me gtja191_alpha_001" → `alpha_zoo` with `action=get_alpha, alpha_id=gtja191_alpha_001`. - "bench all of GTJA 191 on CSI 300 from 2020 to 2024" → `alpha_bench` with `zoo=gtja191, universe=csi300, period=2020-2024`. …
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How to install
mdr add hkuds/vibe-trading/alpha-zoo@git:20260517.1676eaamdr add hkuds/vibe-trading/alpha-zoo@sha256:38a2168fe94d8516Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 for exact bytes. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install fetches those bytes again and checks them, so it installs them exactly or fails.
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Source
hkuds/vibe-trading · 34,089 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-27 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_thkq3n2wqmxrlar3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hkuds/vibe-trading/alpha-zoo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/38a2168fe94d8516a56224738d038ae23fbc209abdcbc143dfedf8aa092aaa2d
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