Everything lands in a trader/ folder in your project, and each skill reads what the last one wrote:

scanner -> news -> entry -> exit -> timemachine -> budget -> risk -> broker   (one trade)
alerts: stop, target, flat by the close                                       (while it is open)
news / analyst / pelosi                                                        (on a schedule)

An example, the trade in the reel: Tesla, Monday October 19 2026, real data.

1. /trader-scanner at 10:15 AM ET: of the 231 charts in the reel's scan, 42 had closed above their 15-minute opening range. TSLA is one: range 354.47 to 362.18, the 10:10 candle closed at 364.18, 0.55 % over the top.
2. /trader-news: the morning's TSLA headlines, in New York time ("Tesla-SpaceX Merger Mania Strikes Wall Street Ahead of Earnings", 8:04, tagged earnings and deal). Tesla reports this week: a day trade is out before the close, so it is not exposed to the report.
3. /trader-entry watched TSLA bar by bar. At 10:12 it said waiting (the 10:10 bar was still forming). At 10:15 it said triggered: the first 5-minute close above the range, 364.18.
4. /trader-exit set the plan before the entry: stop at the range's midpoint, 358.32, so 5.86 a share at risk; target one times that risk, 370.04; flat by 3:55 PM either way.
5. /trader-timemachine replayed the rest of the day 10,000 times, each 5-minute candle drawn from TSLA's own candles at that time of day over the previous 59 sessions (seed 19, so anyone can repeat it): target first 29.4 %, stop first 25.5 %, still open at the close 45.1 %. It also re-ran the same rule on those 59 real sessions: it fired 33 times, 13 hit the target, 15 the stop, 5 neither. Its verdict: close to a coin flip. That is the point of looking before you risk a dollar.
6. /trader-budget with a $5,000 account and a $50 max loss per trade: 50 / 5.86 = 8 shares ($2,913.44). If the stop fills at 358.32, the loss is $46.88. It writes one bracket order: buy 8 TSLA, stop-loss 358.32, take-profit 370.04.
7. /trader-risk checks it against your limits: the max loss, the daily loss limit, trades per day, reward to risk, the entry window, position size and cash. PASS or BLOCK, with the reason.
8. /trader-broker shows you the ticket in plain words. You type yes for that exact order. Claude calls your brokerage connector (Alpaca's MCP server, paper account by default), and Claude's own "Allow once / Deny" card asks you one more time.
9. /trader-alerts rings on the stop, the target and at 3:55 PM to flatten whatever is still open.