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Analyst Kit (YC W23): Turn your Claude / Codex into an investment analyst (Free)

Analyst Kit (YC W23) has released a free, open-source set of hedge-fund-grade equity-research skills for AI coding agents like Claude and Codex. The skills, which include capabilities for SEC filings, financial modeling, and charting, can be installed as plugins to turn AI agents into investment analysts.

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Analyst Kit (YC W23): Turn your Claude / Codex into an investment analyst (Free)
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Installable, hedge-fund-grade equity-research skills for AI coding agents. Each skill is a self-contained folder of instructions (and, where useful, runnable scripts) that an agent loads on demand. Install them into Claude Code as a plugin, or copy them into any agent runtime with the bundled installer.

The skill frontmatter is the single source of truth β€” the registry, the plugin manifests, and the installer all derive from it.

The skills split into capabilities (one atomic job β€” a data source, an engine, a deliverable, or reusable knowledge) and workflows (an engagement entry point that orchestrates capabilities via requires:

). The "Needs" column lists runtimes, API keys, and required skills.

Skill Type What it does Needs
analyst-playbook
capability How to structure any analysis before fetching a number: pick the deliverable, align fiscal calendars and frequencies, normalize units, route series to the right skill, and apply per-sector conventions β€”
13f-analysis
capability Fetch & read U.S. institutional 13F-HR holdings from SEC EDGAR β€” resolve a fund to its CIK, pull a quarter's holdings as a normalized, ranked CSV, and read it without the common traps
Python (stdlib)
sec-filings
capability Fetch & read U.S. SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, any EDGAR form) — risk factors, MD&A, material events, segment data, insider trades, earnings 8-K exhibits — with ticker→CIK resolution and BM25 search for large filings Python (stdlib)
financialmodellingprep
capability Call the Financial Modeling Prep REST API β€” daily prices, news, profiles, screener, quarterly income statements, fiscal-period info, earnings-call transcripts β€” with exact endpoints, params, and field schemas Python Β· FMP_API_KEY
finmind
capability Pull Taiwan (TWSE/TPEx) market data β€” prices, monthly revenue, financials, dividends, shareholding, institutional flows β€” via the FinMind API Python Β· FINMIND_TOKEN
market-intelligence
capability Nowcast a company's quarter and predict a revenue segment from Google Trends search-interest (via SerpAPI) β€” keyword selection, normalization to a quarterly index, and a quarter-to-date nowcast Python Β· SERPAPI_API_KEY
company-universe-manager
capability Own a watchlist of companies and their key dates (earnings, investor days, ex-dividend, AGMs…): roster CRUD, a daily monitor that detects date changes, and a daily brief (markdown or branded PDF). Pluggable local-folder or connected-server storage
Python Β· financialmodellingprep, reporting
analyzing-financial-statements
capability Calculate & interpret financial ratios (profitability, liquidity, leverage, efficiency, valuation, per-share) from statement data, with industry benchmarking Python (stdlib)
creating-financial-models
capability DCF valuation, M&A accretion/dilution, sensitivity analysis (data tables, tornado charts), and probability-weighted best/base/worst scenario planning Python Β· numpy/pandas
charting
capability Financially-correct charts: a thin Python/Polars layer normalizes data β†’ a TypeScript layer emits Highcharts options + a self-contained HTML page (trends, segments, margins, dividends, surprise, waterfalls, price) Node Β· Python
reporting
capability Assemble charts, tables, and analyst text into a branded PDF β€” A4 portrait report or 16:9 deck β€” from ready-made page templates; remembers your logo and brand colors Node Β· charting
wiki-builder
capability Serve any folder of markdown as a navigable browser wiki (sidebar, table of contents, frontmatter chips, ECharts) Bun
data-analysis
capability End-to-end analysis of a structured dataset (CSV/JSON/Excel/SQL) β€” profile, clean, visualize, model, and report with reproducible code β€”
single-stock-deep-dive
workflow Forensic, decision-useful deep dive on one stock: thesis, valuation, catalysts, variant perception, value-chain adjacencies β€”
thematic-investing
workflow Map a theme or trend into an investable value chain β€” who benefits, where value accrues, what's mispriced company-universe-manager
technical-analysis
workflow Disciplined technical analysis with concrete entry/exit levels: regime classification, a three-layer confluence stack, and ATR-based stops/sizing/targets from a zero-dependency indicator engine Python Β· charting
company-wiki
workflow Build a multi-page company-research wiki (overview, products, 5-year financials, model, competitors, citations) as a deployed web app FMP_API_KEY Β· wiki-builder, company-universe-manager

One command β€” works on macOS, Linux, and Windows (inside WSL2 β€” see below). It installs

allthe skills into your chosen runtime and wires them into the agent's system/common prompt. Needs only

Node β‰₯ 18(which detects your OS and installs to the right paths):

npx github:mohitjandwani/analyst-kit claude-code      # or: codex Β· openclaw Β· cowork

Swap claude-code

for codex

, openclaw

, or cowork

; add --scope project

to install into the current project (./.claude/skills

, …) instead of your home directory. Already cloned the repo? node bin/analyst-kit.js claude-code

does the same (plus list

, doctor

, uninstall

, or install <skill|persona>

for just one).

For Claude Cowork, the command prints the in-app steps and writes cowork-global-instructions.md

to paste into Settings β†’ Cowork β†’ Global instructions β€” Cowork installs the skills themselves through its plugin marketplace (below).

On Windows:run insideWSL2β€” native Windows (PowerShell/cmd) is unsupported because the skill runtime is POSIX/bash. See[Windows: use WSL2]below.

Both Claude Code and ** Claude Cowork** (Anthropic's desktop app) install from the same plugin marketplace:

Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add mohitjandwani/analyst-kit
/plugin install us-stock-analyst@analyst-kit    # or international-analyst / taiwan-stock-analyst

Claude Cowork(desktop app):** Customize β†’ Plugins β†’ Personal plugins β†’ + β†’ Add marketplace**β†’mohitjandwani/analyst-kit

, add theus-stock-analyst plugin, then enableSettings β†’ Capabilities β†’ Code execution.

After installing, ask a trigger phrase (e.g. "deep dive on NVDA") and the matching skill loads. From a clone you can also self-test the installers across every platform:

npm run test:integration     # real installs per platform + the path.win32 path-layer check

Codex (any OS, no ChatGPT login needed) β€” confirm a skill is reachable with an API key:

CODEX_API_KEY=sk-... codex exec --json "use the sec-filings skill to list NVDA's latest 8-K"

See ** compatibility.md** for what each runtime does underneath β€” where skills land, the routing table, and Windows specifics.

Analyst Kit's skills run a POSIX/bash runtime (analyst-kit-core

), so on Windows they are supported only inside WSL2. This matches what the agents themselves require: Claude Code's sandbox runs on macOS, Linux, and WSL2 (native Windows is unsupported), and Codex's Linux mode is WSL2 as well.

Recommended: installWSL2, then run Claude Code (or Codex)and this installerinsideyour WSL2 distribution β€” everything then behaves exactly like Linux.- Native Windows (PowerShell/cmd) cannot run the bash runtime at all. Native Windows + Git Bash will run the scripts but without enforced .env

file permissions (chmod

is a no-op on NTFS) and without sandboxing β€” unsupported.

node bin/analyst-kit.js doctor --platform claude-code

warns when run on native Windows.

Three persona plugins bundle the research workflows for different markets. All three include the research workflows (deep dive, thematic, technical analysis, company wiki) plus their supporting capabilities (charting, reporting, wiki-builder, company-universe-manager, financialmodellingprep, market-intelligence, analyzing-financial-statements, creating-financial-models, data-analysis); the market difference is whether FinMind (Taiwan data) and SEC filings are included.

Plugin Includes Skills
us-stock-analyst
the research workflows + supporting capabilities, incl. (US filings)sec-filings
15
international-analyst
the above + FinMind (Taiwan/TWSE market data)
16
taiwan-stock-analyst
Taiwan-focused: workflows + capabilities + FinMind, minus sec-filings
14

Run node bin/analyst-kit.js list --persona <name>

to see a plugin's exact contents.

Keys are read from the environment or a git-ignored .env

. The installer (analyst-kit env

/ analyst-kit install

) prompts for anything missing when run interactively. See .env.example.

Variable Used by Get it
FINMIND_TOKEN
finmind

FMP_API_KEY

https://site.financialmodelingprep.com/developer/docsSERPAPI_API_KEY

https://serpapi.com/(free tier = 100 searches/month)13f-analysis

needs no key β€” it reads SEC EDGAR directly (set the optional SEC_EDGAR_UA

contact string as an SEC fair-access courtesy).

Skills that run code bootstrap their own dependencies on first use. Runtimes are a per-skill prerequisite the installer does not install for you: Python (finmind, company-universe-manager; 13f-analysis is standard-library only) and Bun (wiki-builder).

Every skill runs on a shared runtime (analyst-kit-core

, installed automatically as a dependency) that keeps all per-user state in one fixed place, ~/.analyst-kit/

:

.env

β€” your API keys (chmod 600, shared across projects)config

β€” settings (analyst-kit-core/bin/analyst-kit-config get|set|list

)analytics/skill-usage.jsonl

β€”local usage log: which skill ran, when, outcome, durationlearnings.jsonl

β€” things the skills learned about your setup and preferences, so mistakes aren't repeated

Telemetry is on by default (anonymous, opt-out). It sends only skill name, version, outcome, and duration β€” never repo names, file paths, tickers, or content β€” and is what tells us which skills break or run slow, so keeping it on directly improves your experience. You're told about it once on first run. Tiers: community

(default, stable anonymous id), anonymous

(no id), off

. Opt out any time:

~/.claude/skills/analyst-kit-core/bin/analyst-kit-config set telemetry off

Updates: skills check the published version at most once a day and offer a guided upgrade when a new release is out (declining snoozes it for a week; disable with analyst-kit-config set update_check false

).

Each skill is skills/<name>/SKILL.md

with YAML frontmatter:

---
name: 13f-analysis          # kebab-case; must equal the folder name
type: capability            # capability | workflow
description: >              # what it does + a "Triggers:" clause of trigger phrases
  ... Triggers: "get the 13F for X", "what does <fund> own", ...
requires: [ ... ]           # capability skills this one builds on (nothing may require a workflow)
env: [ FMP_API_KEY ]        # API keys the skill needs
---

Agents read only name

  • description

, so trigger phrases live inside the description. type

, requires

, and env

drive the installer and validator.

npm run validate         # lint skills + plugin manifests (+ preamble sync check)
npm run build:registry   # regenerate registry.json from frontmatter
npm run check:registry   # verify registry.json is in sync
npm run sync:preamble    # regenerate the analyst-kit-core blocks in every SKILL.md

registry.json

is generated β€” edit skill frontmatter, then rebuild it. The <!-- analyst-kit:preamble/epilogue -->

blocks in each SKILL.md are also generated β€” edit skills/analyst-kit-core/templates/

and re-sync; never edit between the markers. The same checks run in CI (.github/workflows/validate.yml

) on every push and pull request.

Planned skills, not yet available: an LBO model (debt schedule, cash sweep, IRR/MOIC) and PDF report analysis.

and the DCF + sensitivity tooling inanalyzing-financial-statements

were inspired by the custom financial skills increating-financial-models

Anthropic's claude-cookbooks, then reworked to this repo's skill contract (frontmatter,scripts/

layout) and hardened with input guards and a test suite.- The M&A accretion/dilution model in was inspired bycreating-financial-models

joe-neary/MergerDealSimulator. The financial formulas were reimplemented from scratch (no code was copied); that project's worked example serves as an independent cross-check in the skill's test suite.

MIT Β© Mohit Kumar

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