The Trading Dev Kit — Development skill for Claude Code

The Trading Development Kit

Write your system once. Stop donating to the market.

A Claude Code skill that scaffolds a complete, five-layer rule-based trading operation. Every layer has one job. Together they remove discretion from your process and replace it with a system you can trust.

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The Five Layers

Layer	Component	Job
L1	CLAUDE.md / Risk.md	Memory — Trading rules, risk parameters, session behavior. Always loaded.
L2	Playbooks / Skills	Knowledge — Setup library: breakout, pullback, mean-reversion. On-demand.
L3	Hooks	Guardrail — Shell scripts that fire automatically around session events.
L4	Subagents	Delegation — Specialist agents run in their own context and return one clean answer.
L5	Plugins	Distribution — Bundle your entire system into a deployable package.

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Install

Option 1 — Install the `.skill` file directly

Download `the-trading-dev-kit.skill` from the [Releases](../../releases) page and install via Claude Code:

claude skill install the-trading-dev-kit.skill

Option 2 — Clone and use locally

git clone https://github.com//the-trading-dev-kit
cd the-trading-dev-kit

Then add the skill to your Claude Code project:

cp -r the-trading-dev-kit ~/.claude/skills/

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Quick Start

Once installed, trigger the skill with any of these prompts in Claude Code:

**Full system setup:**

Set up my full trading system. I trade momentum breakouts on the 5-minute chart.
My max daily loss is $500 and I risk 1% per trade.

**Build Layer 1 (rules + risk):**

Build my CLAUDE.md for trading. I trade SPY options on the 5-minute timeframe.
My edge is VWAP reclaims. Max daily loss $300. Risk 1% per trade.

**Write a playbook (Layer 2):**

Write a breakout.md playbook for ES futures. Include volume confirmation rules,
entry trigger, stop placement, scaling logic, and invalidati