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The Public Portfolio Challenge skills library is on GitHub. NexusTrade Premium includes Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals, unlimited backtests, and live broker trading.

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Strategy variants tested

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Open source skills library · SKILL.md · MCP

Composable agent skills on the open SKILL.md standard — the same skills/ folder runs in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and 15+ other tools. Walk-forward gates, lockbox rules, and deploy discipline from the live $25k challenge.

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Stars

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Forks

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Agent tools

  1. Connect NexusTrade MCP (OAuth — no API keys)
  2. Run skills/install.sh for your agent tool
  3. Paste a skill or runbook prompt into a fresh session
View skills library →

Open source skills library

The Public Portfolio Challenge

Real money, full transparency — plus an open skills/ library you can install in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and 15+ other agent tools.

Get the skills library →
Walk-forward certifiedLockbox passedOpen source

Episode 10: Fable 5 crushed out-of-sample, went live, then got banned

The full campaign log lives in the repo — every gate, engine bug, and dead end logged. The skills library distills that discipline into composable SKILL.md runbooks you can install in any agent tool.

austin-starks/public-portfolio-challenge

Open source skills library · SKILL.md · MCP

Composable agent skills on the open SKILL.md standard — the same skills/ folder runs in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and 15+ other tools. Walk-forward gates, lockbox rules, and deploy discipline from the live $25k challenge.

27

Stars

11

Forks

15+

Agent tools

  1. Connect NexusTrade MCP (OAuth — no API keys)
  2. Run skills/install.sh for your agent tool
  3. Paste a skill or runbook prompt into a fresh session
View skills library →

Ep 1

The challenge begins

Ep 3

11 models, one winner

Ep 5

AI-designed strategy goes live

Ep 8

Week 1 recap: +$2,546, two production bugs, and a rebuilt backtest engine

Ep 10

Episode 10: Fable 5 crushed out-of-sample, went live, then got banned

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