trader-news SKILL.md skillA
trader-news from jakeschincariol/trader-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jakeschincariol/trader-skill/trader-news@git:20261014.5189e79Pins git:20261014.5189e79 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jakeschincariol/trader-skill
- Path
trader-news/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261014.5189e79, committed Oct 14, 2026
- Size
- 4,856 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,388
- License
- MIT
The News Monitor. Watches breaking market news and SEC filings for the stocks you hold (or are about to copy): Yahoo Finance headlines per ticker and each company's 8-K filings on SEC EDGAR (earnings, CEO changes, deals, restatements, bankruptcy). Shows only what is new since the last check, newest first, flags what touches your positions and why it matters, and never repeats an item. Use when the user says "any news on my stocks", "what's happening with Apple", "monitor the news…
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
# trader-news
A position you hold can change in a minute: an earnings miss, a CEO leaving,
a lawsuit, a restatement. This skill reads the two feeds that carry those
first for each of your stocks and tells you only what is new.
Tool in this folder (standard library Python, no keys):
```bash
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/news.py" --help
```
## What it reads and writes
- Your tickers: `--tickers`, else `trader/portfolio.json` positions, else
`trader/targets.json` weights (so it works right after `/trader-copycat`).
- Headlines: Yahoo Finance's public headline RSS, one feed per ticker
(`https://feeds.finance.yahoo.com/rss/2.0/headline?s=AAPL®ion=US&lang=en-US`).
- Filings: SEC EDGAR's company Atom feed, 8-K by default (`--forms 8-K,10-Q`
for more). Needs the SEC User-Agent from `trader/config.json`
(`sec_user_agent`) or `SEC_USER_AGENT`. Without it, filings are skipped with
a note and headlines still run.
- Writes `trader/state/news.json`: what has been shown (kept 30 days) and the
CIK for each ticker, so every item appears once.
## The rules
- **Headlines are leads, not facts.** Before telling the user something
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jakeschincariol/trader-skill/trader-news@sha256:56e1f2531261675cThe 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 14, 2026.
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 (4856 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
jakeschincariol/trader-skill · 1,388 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tyebsusfhav5oe5w GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jakeschincariol/trader-skill/trader-news GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/56e1f2531261675cfecaa8405dfac85ebacff22aba690f2fc57299e9d4b9365c
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.