trader-alerts

90 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a data skill usually connects to databases or online services with your credentials.

By Jakeschincariol/trader-skill (GitHub) · data · 1,624 stars · scanned at commit 5189e79

Price Alerts. Rings when a price target, a stop or the opening bell hits: above / below / stop rules, percent moves from the previous close, and the NYSE opening bell, each ringing once so you are not spammed. Knows NYSE hours with the 2026 and 2027 holidays and 1:00 p.m. early closes, fetches free delayed quotes (Yahoo chart JSON, Stooq CSV) one ticker at a time, and writes trader/prices.json for the other skills. Use when the user says "alert me when", "tell me if AAPL hits", "set a stop", "p…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this.

Found in 1 place.

trader-alerts/SKILL.md, line 25python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/alerts.py" clock # NYSE open or closed, next open

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this. Expected for a data skill.

Found in 5 places.

trader-alerts/alerts.py, line 47import urllib.request
trader-alerts/alerts.py, line 236def fetch(url, timeout=20):
trader-alerts/alerts.py, line 237req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": UA, "Accept": "*/*"})

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trader-alerts/alerts.py, line 239with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as r:
trader-alerts/alerts.py, line 263text = fetch(stooq_url(sym) if source == "stooq" else yahoo_url(sym))

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'trader-alerts' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'trader-alerts' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named trader-alerts already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/trader-skill' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '5189e79b9a480755a3733ac9713f5353981dbe18' -- 'trader-alerts' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'trader-alerts' ~/.agents/skills/'trader-alerts' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'trader-alerts' ~/.claude/skills/'trader-alerts' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-08	`5189e79`	90
2026-11-07	`5189e79`	90