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backtest-expert

95 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By mphinance/alpha-skills (GitHub) · coding · 32 stars · scanned at commit 78b6ee6

Expert guidance for systematic backtesting of trading strategies. Use when developing, testing, stress-testing, or validating quantitative trading strategies. Covers "beating ideas to death" methodology, parameter robustness testing, slippage modeling, bias prevention, and interpreting backtest results. Applicable when user asks about backtesting, strategy validation, robustness testing, avoiding overfitting, or systematic trading development.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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• plugins/quant-skills/skills/backtest-expert 95/100 · Low risk

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'backtest-expert' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'backtest-expert' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named backtest-expert already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/mphinance/alpha-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '78b6ee6816aca6e5660cc7f0382650e9e7687086' -- 'skills/backtest-expert' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/backtest-expert' ~/.agents/skills/'backtest-expert' && 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/'backtest-expert' ~/.claude/skills/'backtest-expert' (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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