Agent skill

Simons Quant

by questflowai in questflowai/investorskills

A skill your agent uses when evaluating Jim Simons / Renaissance-style quantitative strategies: many weak signals, statistical validation, signal decay, portfolio construction, execution cost, and…

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Simons Quant

skills CLI
$ npx skills add questflowai/investorskills --skill simons-quant -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install questflowai/investorskills simons-quant --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/questflowai/investorskills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/simons-quant .claude/skills/simons-quant && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
simons-quant
GitHub stars
1.9k
Token cost
~438 tokens
SKILL.md length
171 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
63
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when evaluating Jim Simons / Renaissance-style quantitative strategies: many weak signals, statistical validation, signal decay, portfolio construction, execution cost, and…

  • Works in 6 steps: Translate the hypothesis into measurable… → Define universe, holding period, costs,… → Test out-of-sample and across regimes. → …
  • Evaluating Jim Simons / Renaissance-style quantitative strategies: many weak signals
  • SKILL.md covers When To Use, Process, Output Format and Guardrails, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Simons Quant is an agent skill from questflowai/investorskills. Use when evaluating Jim Simons / Renaissance-style quantitative strategies: many weak signals, statistical validation, signal decay, portfolio construction, execution cost, and model risk.

Its SKILL.md is about 440 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `invest.md`).

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Trading and backtesting. The repository describes itself as: Investor Skills is an open-source library that turns durable investing judgment into portable, structured formats. It collects how great investors think, filter opportunities… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Evaluating Jim Simons / Renaissance-style quantitative strategies: many weak signals
  • Statistical validation
  • Portfolio construction

Example prompts

  • “/simons-quant”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Translate the hypothesis into measurable signals.
  2. Define universe, holding period, costs, and data availability.
  3. Test out-of-sample and across regimes.
  4. Combine weak signals into a portfolio rather than relying on one story.
  5. Model execution cost, capacity, turnover, and slippage.
  6. Monitor decay and shut down signals that stop working.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2844d78. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Simons Quant loads about 438 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 50 tokens; SKILL.md has 171 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~50
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~438

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from questflowai/investorskills at commit 2844d78, republished under its MIT licence (© questflowai). 171 words, ~438 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/simons-quant/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
simons-quant
description
Use when evaluating Jim Simons / Renaissance-style quantitative strategies: many weak signals, statistical validation, signal decay, portfolio construction, execution cost, and model risk.
invest
./invest.md

Simons Quant

Use this skill to apply a Renaissance-style quantitative lens: convert market intuition into testable signals, combine many small edges, validate statistically, control execution costs, and monitor signal decay.

When To Use

  • Quant strategy design or review
  • Signal research, factor testing, and backtest critique
  • Statistical arbitrage and many-small-edges portfolio thinking
  • Whether a trading rule is robust or overfit

Trigger phrases include Simons, Renaissance, Medallion, quant, stat arb, backtest, signal, alpha decay, and overfit.

Process

  1. Translate the hypothesis into measurable signals.
  2. Define universe, holding period, costs, and data availability.
  3. Test out-of-sample and across regimes.
  4. Combine weak signals into a portfolio rather than relying on one story.
  5. Model execution cost, capacity, turnover, and slippage.
  6. Monitor decay and shut down signals that stop working.

Output Format

md
# Simons Quant View: [Strategy]

## Verdict
Research / Paper Trade / Deploy Small / Reject / Overfit

## Hypothesis
## Signal Definitions
## Validation Plan
## Portfolio Construction
## Execution And Capacity
## Failure Modes

Guardrails

  • Do not trust in-sample backtests.
  • Do not ignore transaction costs.
  • Do not confuse correlation with durable edge.
  • Do not deploy before data leakage checks.

Questflow Use

In Questflow, this skill is best used as a signal-research and systematic-strategy review module.

© questflowai, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/simons-quant of questflowai/investorskills.

  • SKILL.md
  • invest.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2844d78

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Questions about Simons Quant

What does Simons Quant do?

A skill your agent uses when evaluating Jim Simons / Renaissance-style quantitative strategies: many weak signals, statistical validation, signal decay, portfolio construction, execution cost, and…. Simons Quant is an agent skill from questflowai/investorskills. Use when evaluating Jim Simons / Renaissance-style quantitative strategies: many weak signals, statistical validation, signal decay, portfolio construction, execution cost, and model risk.

When should I use Simons Quant?

Simons Quant fits situations like: evaluating Jim Simons / Renaissance-style quantitative strategies: many weak signals; statistical validation; portfolio construction.

How do I install Simons Quant in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add questflowai/investorskills --skill simons-quant -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/simons-quant in questflowai/investorskills) into .claude/skills/simons-quant in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Simons Quant in Codex?

Run `npx skills add questflowai/investorskills --skill simons-quant -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/simons-quant in questflowai/investorskills) into .agents/skills/simons-quant in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Simons Quant in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add questflowai/investorskills --skill simons-quant -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/simons-quant, .gemini/skills/simons-quant, .github/skills/simons-quant and .opencode/skills/simons-quant in your project.

What does Simons Quant need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Simons Quant is instructions for the agent only.

Does Simons Quant access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Simons Quant safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Simons Quant use?

Simons Quant is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Simons Quant use?

About 438 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Simons Quant?

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Who maintains Simons Quant?

questflowai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in questflowai/investorskills, which has 1,896 GitHub stars. The repository holds 63 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 23, 2026.

Source: questflowai/investorskills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.