Agent skill

Insider Trading

by staskh in staskh/trading_skills

Get insider trading activity (SEC Form 4 filings) for one or more stocks.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Insider Trading

skills CLI
$ npx skills add staskh/trading_skills --skill insider-trading -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install staskh/trading_skills insider-trading --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/staskh/trading_skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/insider-trading .claude/skills/insider-trading && 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
insider-trading
GitHub stars
375
Token cost
~371 tokens
SKILL.md length
153 words
Files
2 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
28
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Get insider trading activity (SEC Form 4 filings) for one or more stocks.

  • User asks about insider buying/selling
  • SKILL.md covers Instructions, Arguments, Output and Use Cases, plus 2 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls uv
  • Executive transactions

What it does

Insider Trading is an agent skill from staskh/trading_skills. Get insider trading activity (SEC Form 4 filings) for one or more stocks. Use when user asks about insider buying/selling, executive transactions, insider sentiment, or Form 4 activity.

Its SKILL.md is about 370 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/insider_trading.py`).

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Trading and backtesting. The repository describes itself as: Claude powered advisor system for option traders. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • User asks about insider buying/selling
  • Executive transactions
  • Insider sentiment
  • Form 4 activity

Example prompts

  • “/insider-trading”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b71a74f. 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

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • uv

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use uv, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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

Insider Trading loads about 371 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 50 tokens; SKILL.md has 153 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
~371

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from staskh/trading_skills at commit b71a74f, republished under its MIT licence (© staskh). 153 words, ~371 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/insider-trading/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
insider-trading
description
Get insider trading activity (SEC Form 4 filings) for one or more stocks. Use when user asks about insider buying/selling, executive transactions, insider sentiment, or Form 4 activity.
dependencies
trading-skills

Insider Trading

Fetch recent insider transactions from Yahoo Finance (SEC Form 4 data).

Instructions

Note: If uv is not installed or pyproject.toml is not found, replace uv run python with python in all commands below.

bash
uv run python scripts/insider_trading.py SYMBOLS [--days DAYS]

Arguments

  • SYMBOLS - Single ticker or comma-separated list (e.g., NVDA or NVDA,PLTR,GOOG)
  • --days - Trailing days to look back (default: 90)

Output

Returns JSON with:

  • transactions - List of insider trades with insider name, role, transaction type, shares, price, value, date, ownership type
  • summary - Net sentiment (net_buying, net_selling, neutral), buy/sell counts and values

For multiple symbols, results are ranked by net buying value (most buying first).

Use Cases

  • "Show me insider buys for NVDA in the last 90 days"
  • "Compare insider activity across NVDA, PLTR, GOOG"
  • "Which of these stocks has the most insider selling recently?"

Dependencies

  • yfinance

Timezone

All timestamps and time-based calculations must use the America/New_York timezone. All JSON output must include generated_at (NY time string) and data_delay fields.

© staskh, 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 (scripts) in .claude/skills/insider-trading of staskh/trading_skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/insider_trading.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b71a74f

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Questions about Insider Trading

What does Insider Trading do?

Get insider trading activity (SEC Form 4 filings) for one or more stocks. Insider Trading is an agent skill from staskh/trading_skills. Get insider trading activity (SEC Form 4 filings) for one or more stocks.

When should I use Insider Trading?

Insider Trading fits situations like: user asks about insider buying/selling; executive transactions; insider sentiment; form 4 activity.

How do I install Insider Trading in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add staskh/trading_skills --skill insider-trading -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/insider-trading in staskh/trading_skills) into .claude/skills/insider-trading in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Insider Trading in Codex?

Run `npx skills add staskh/trading_skills --skill insider-trading -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/insider-trading in staskh/trading_skills) into .agents/skills/insider-trading in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Insider Trading 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 staskh/trading_skills --skill insider-trading -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/insider-trading, .gemini/skills/insider-trading, .github/skills/insider-trading and .opencode/skills/insider-trading in your project.

What does Insider Trading need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Insider Trading needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (uv). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Insider Trading access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use uv, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Insider Trading 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Insider Trading use?

Insider Trading 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 Insider Trading use?

About 371 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.5k 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 Insider Trading?

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Who maintains Insider Trading?

staskh (a GitHub user) maintains it in staskh/trading_skills, which has 375 GitHub stars. The repository holds 28 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 28, 2026.

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