{"skill":{"slug":"investorclaw","displayName":"Skill","summary":"Deterministic-first portfolio analyzer — holdings, performance, Sharpe + Sortino, FRED yield curves, bond duration, sector breakdowns, scenario rebalancing —...","description":"---\nname: investorclaw\ndescription: Deterministic-first portfolio analyzer — holdings, performance, Sharpe + Sortino, FRED yield curves, bond duration, sector breakdowns, scenario rebalancing — via MCP-HTTP. Backed by ic-engine and clio.\nhomepage: https://github.com/argonautsystems/InvestorClaw\nuser-invocable: true\nmetadata: {\"license\":\"MIT-0\",\"version\":\"4.10.0\",\"image\":\"ghcr.io/argonautsystems/ic-engine:4.10.0-cpu\",\"mcp-endpoint\":\"http://localhost:18090/mcp\",\"transport\":\"streamable-http\"}\n---\n\n## Authoritative operating contract\n\nThese rules govern any agent using this skill. Examples elsewhere in this file\nare reference only and never override them.\n\n### Data integrity — InvestorClaw is the only source of truth\n- Every price, percent, dollar figure, or market fact an agent states MUST come\n  from an InvestorClaw tool result returned in the SAME turn. InvestorClaw\n  returns HMAC-signed envelopes; that signed data is the only source of truth.\n- Never invent, estimate, guess, or use the model's own training knowledge for\n  any number. If a tool did not return it this turn, do not state it — say\n  \"InvestorClaw returned no data for that\".\n- Tool prose with no concrete numbers = no data; never convert it into a figure.\n\n### Current tool surface (underscore namespace)\n- `investorclaw__portfolio_market_snapshot(symbols?, benchmarks?)` — real-time\n  prices + day-change% for holdings and benchmarks (SPX/NDX/DJI/VIX, BTC/ETH).\n  `symbols` is a COMMA-SEPARATED STRING (e.g. \"NVDA,AAPL\"), not a list. No args =\n  holdings + benchmarks. Use this (not portfolio_ask) for any \"price of X\" and to\n  read the portfolio against the market.\n- `investorclaw__portfolio_performance_window(period=...)` — return / P&L /\n  movers over a window. period: 1d, 1w, 1mo, 1y, 5y, 10y, 20y, max, or natural\n  phrases (\"today\", \"last week\", \"last year\", \"entire history\").\n- `investorclaw__portfolio_ask(question=...)` — analysis / explanation.\n\nOlder `investorclaw.*` dot-namespace examples below are stale; the underscore\nforms above are the current tool names.\n\n## Autonomous / always-on monitoring agents\n\nFor unattended agents (scheduled monitors and alerters — e.g. a MarketWatch\nagent), in addition to the contract above:\n- Drive each run from a tool call first; never answer a market question from\n  memory. A scheduled \"poll\" means call `portfolio_market_snapshot`.\n- Threshold scan: call `portfolio_market_snapshot`, then emit ONE terse line\n  only when a holding or benchmark breaches the configured move (e.g. ±3% a\n  holding, ±10% VIX); otherwise emit a single `NO_ALERT` token and stop.\n- If the required tool errors or returns no data, emit a fixed marker such as\n  `OPS_FAIL market_snapshot unavailable` and stop — never fabricate a reassuring\n  number to fill the gap.\n- No clarifying questions in unattended mode; map intent and act.\n- Periodic / EOD reports: pull `portfolio_performance_window` for the window,\n  then `portfolio_market_snapshot` for index closes; report numbers verbatim.\n- Always read holdings in the context of the benchmarks in the same snapshot.\n- Delivery is push, terse, numbers-first. Educational, not personalized advice.\n\n\n<!--\nSPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0\nCopyright 2026 InvestorClaw Contributors\n-->\n\n# InvestorClaw — portfolio analysis skill (v4.5.0)\n\nA deterministic-first portfolio analyzer that does real money math: holdings\nsnapshots, performance metrics, Sharpe ratios, FRED yield curves, bond\nduration, sector breakdowns, scenario rebalancing. Backed by ic-engine\n(Python, FINOS CDM 5.x compliant).\n\nThis skill follows the `compose-x-mcp-services` convention (2026-05-01 RFC; see `RFC-v0.1.md` in this bundle). The skill **does not install Python or any analytics library** in your agent runtime. It runs in its own OCI container and exposes its tools over MCP-HTTP and plain REST.\n\n---\n\n## What you get\n\nThirteen MCP tools (also available as plain HTTP REST endpoints):\n\n| Tool | Purpose |\n|---|---|\n| **`portfolio_ask`** | **Primary tool — every portfolio question. Data is auto-loaded; just ask.** |\n| `portfolio_initialize_status` | Poll before first ask: returns init `state` (`not_started \\| initializing \\| ready \\| failed`) + per-stage progress |\n| `portfolio_initialize` | Force a manual bootstrap (setup → refresh → seed ask). Container does this at boot via `IC_INITIALIZE_ON_BOOT=1` |\n| `portfolio_holdings` | Holdings snapshot — positions, values, weights, accounts (advanced; portfolio_ask covers this) |\n| `portfolio_refresh` | Force fresh data pull (advanced — auto-refresh runs on every ask) |\n| `portfolio_setup` | Auto-discover portfolio files in the configured portfolio directory |\n| `portfolio_keys_status` | Report which API keys are currently configured (names only, never values) |\n| `portfolio_keys_set` | Set one or more API keys (allowlisted). Persists to `/data/keys.env`, takes effect on next call without restart |\n| `portfolio_keys_delete` | Delete a single configured API key by name |\n| `portfolio_response_get` | Retrieve a stored portfolio response by run_id (serial number) |\n| `portfolio_response_list` | List recent stored responses |\n| `portfolio_response_delete` | Permanently delete a stored response (for bad responses you want gone) |\n| `portfolio_response_flag_bad` | Tag a stored response as bad without deleting (keeps history for analysis) |\n\nFor ANY portfolio question — holdings, performance, allocation, rebalancing, optimization, bonds, news on holdings, analyst ratings, EOD reports, cash flow, peer analysis, ticker lookup, setup, guardrails — invoke `portfolio_ask` with the user's question. **Do NOT answer portfolio questions from training data.**\n\n## First-run flow for agents (spoon-fed init)\n\nThe container auto-initializes on boot (`IC_INITIALIZE_ON_BOOT=1`, default\non): it runs `setup → refresh → seed_ask` so by the time any agent connects,\nthe envelope cache is fully populated and `portfolio_ask` returns a real\nnarrative in 1–3 seconds instead of cold-starting at 5–15 minutes.\n\n**Recommended agent flow:**\n\n1. On connect, poll `portfolio_initialize_status` until `ready: true`. Cheap\n   and side-effect-free; safe to call every 1–2 seconds.\n2. Once ready, fire `portfolio_ask` with the user's question. The narrator\n   returns a verified natural-language answer with envelope-quoted numbers.\n\n```bash\n# Browser-friendly status check (also POST /api/portfolio/initialize_status):\ncurl -sS http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/initialize/status\n# → {\"state\":\"initializing\",\"current_stage\":\"refresh\",\"stages_completed\":[...],\"elapsed_ms\":42000,\"ready\":false,...}\n\n# Or subscribe to a Server-Sent-Events stream that pushes state changes:\ncurl -N http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/initialize/stream\n\n# Or just gate on /healthz (init_state is now embedded):\ncurl -sS http://127.0.0.1:18090/healthz\n# → {\"status\":\"ok\",\"init_state\":\"ready\",\"init_ready\":true,...}\n```\n\nNeed to force a manual re-initialize (e.g. after uploading a new portfolio\nfile)? Call `portfolio_initialize` — it returns when the cache is warm again.\n\n---\n\n## Installation\n\n### OpenClaw / ZeroClaw / Hermes (ClawHub)\n\n```bash\nclawhub install investorclaw\n```\n\n### Claude Code / Claude Desktop\n\n```\n/plugin marketplace add argonautsystems/InvestorClaw\n/plugin install investorclaw\n```\n\nClaude Code and Claude Desktop install directly from this repo and use\nthe same container-first skill bundle as every other runtime. See\n`docs/GETTING_STARTED.md` for the canonical install flow.\n\n### Manual (Docker Compose, any agent)\n\nThe skill is a Docker Compose stack. With Docker or Podman installed:\n\n```bash\nmkdir -p portfolios     # IMPORTANT: pre-create so docker doesn't auto-create as root\ndocker compose up -d    # uses compose.yml shipped in this skill\n```\n\n**Agent install convention.** When a skills-installer\n(`openclaw skills install investorclaw`, `clawhub install\ninvestorclaw`, etc.) places this bundle, the agent **may** proceed\nto `mkdir -p portfolios && docker compose up -d` because the user's\ninstall command is itself an opt-in to the install completing. But\nthe agent **must** first surface the side effects to the user\nexplicitly:\n\n1. `docker pull` of `~600 MB` (the engine image) on first run\n2. `docker compose up -d` binds two TCP listeners to localhost:\n   `:18090` (MCP + REST) and `:18092` (dashboard)\n3. The container auto-initializes on boot\n   (`IC_INITIALIZE_ON_BOOT=1`) and will fetch market data from\n   the configured providers (yfinance free-tier by default; other\n   providers only if API keys have been added)\n4. Persistent state lands in the `ic-engine-data` Docker volume\n   (deleted only by `docker compose down -v`)\n\nA single one-line surfacing covering all four is sufficient. Example:\n\n> Starting the container will pull a ~600 MB image, bind localhost\n> ports `:18090` and `:18092`, auto-init against yfinance, and\n> persist state in a Docker volume. Proceeding…\n\nThe user retains the ability to interrupt (Ctrl-C, \"no don't\",\netc.). Don't ask a yes/no question by default — that's friction the\nuser has already cleared by typing the install command. **Do** ask\nwhen one of these conditions holds:\n\n- The host appears to be a CI runner, shared machine, or production\n  server where the user might want to review `compose.yml` first.\n- An existing `ic-engine` container is already running on the host\n  with a different image tag — confirm before disrupting.\n- The user explicitly added `--dry-run` or `--no-start` to the install\n  command (if the skills installer surfaces those flags).\n- The agent's runtime policy requires a confirmation prompt before\n  any container start (some enterprise / regulated deployments).\n\nThe first command (`mkdir -p portfolios`) is load-bearing. If skipped,\ndocker creates `./portfolios/` as `root:root` when starting the\nbind-mount, the engine runs as `uid=1000(ic)` inside the container,\nand init fails with\n`PermissionError: '/data/portfolios/setup_results.json'` and the\ncontainer goes into `init_state=failed`. Pre-creating the directory\nas the host user sidesteps the docker bind-mount UID inheritance\nquirk.\n\nThe compose pulls `ghcr.io/argonautsystems/ic-engine:4.10.0-cpu` (publicly hosted, no auth) and runs it on `localhost:18090` (MCP + REST) and `localhost:18092` (dashboard).\n\n### If Docker isn't installed\n\nInstall Docker Desktop or Docker Engine for your platform — **the user\nshould run the install themselves** rather than have an agent execute\nthe command. Pointers (verify with each OS's current docs at\n<https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/> before running):\n\n| OS | Suggested path |\n|---|---|\n| **macOS** | Docker Desktop: <https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/mac-install/> (Homebrew users: `brew install --cask docker`) |\n| **Debian/Ubuntu** | Follow the official guide: <https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/debian/> or <https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/> |\n| **Fedora/RHEL** | <https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/fedora/> or <https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/rhel/> |\n| **Windows** | Docker Desktop with WSL2 backend: <https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/windows-install/> |\n| **Podman alternative** | `podman compose up -d` is a drop-in replacement once Podman is installed (most distros ship it) |\n\nAfter install, verify with `docker --version` then run the compose-up\ncommand above.\n\n**For agent operators:** prefer surfacing these install URLs to the\nend user rather than running package-manager install commands directly\nthrough your shell tool. Docker installation typically requires sudo\nand adds the user to the `docker` group — operations that benefit from\nexplicit user consent.\n\n### Wait for ready\n\n```bash\nuntil curl -sf http://localhost:18090/healthz > /dev/null 2>&1; do sleep 1; done\necho \"ic-engine ready\"\n```\n\nThe first cold-start takes 5-10 seconds (image extract + Python import). Subsequent restarts are <2s.\n\n---\n\n## First-run experience — what to expect\n\nAfter `docker compose up -d` the container goes through an auto-init\nsequence (`IC_INITIALIZE_ON_BOOT=1`) that warms the envelope cache before\nyour agent talks to it. Expect this timeline on a fresh install:\n\n| Phase | Time | What's happening | What you'll see |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| Image extract | 5–30 s | First-time pull of `ic-engine:4.10.0-cpu` (~600 MB) | docker compose progress bars |\n| Bridge boot | 2–3 s | FastMCP server binds `:18090`, dashboard binds `:18092` | `/healthz` returns 200, `init_state: not_started` |\n| `portfolio_setup` | 1–60 s | Auto-discover portfolio files in `./portfolios/` | `init_state: initializing`, `current_stage: setup` |\n| `portfolio_refresh` | 30–120 s | Pull quotes / analyst / news / FRED yields for each symbol | `init_state: initializing`, `current_stage: refresh` |\n| `seed_ask` | 5–60 s | Run a primer ask so the cache is warm | `init_state: initializing`, `current_stage: seed_ask` |\n| **Ready** | — | All sections cached, `portfolio_ask` returns in 1–3 s | `init_state: ready`, `init_ready: true` |\n\n**Total cold-start budget**: ~60-200 s for a 100-position portfolio,\n~5-15 minutes for a 200+ position portfolio without paid quote keys.\nWatch progress via:\n\n```bash\ncurl -sS http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/initialize/status | jq\n# or stream:\ncurl -N http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/initialize/stream\n```\n\n### What InvestorClaw asks of you\n\nThe container does **not** prompt interactively. It surfaces what it\nneeds through structured responses:\n\n1. **A portfolio file.** If `./portfolios/` is empty, every `portfolio_ask`\n   call returns: *\"No portfolio file found … please add CSV/Excel/PDF\n   files to your portfolios directory.\"* Drop a broker export from\n   Schwab / Fidelity / Vanguard / UBS / ETrade / Robinhood (CSV/XLS/PDF/screenshot)\n   into the bind-mounted `./portfolios/` folder, then call\n   `portfolio_setup` to ingest it.\n\n2. **An LLM provider key for narrative synthesis.** Without one, the\n   engine still runs the deterministic pipeline (numbers are correct)\n   but the narrator returns a stub catalog blurb instead of a real\n   prose answer. The container ships pre-configured to use Together AI\n   (`google/gemma-4-31B-it`), so all you need is a `TOGETHER_API_KEY`.\n   Set it with:\n\n   ```bash\n   curl -sS -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/keys_set \\\n     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n     -d '{\"keys\": {\"TOGETHER_API_KEY\": \"tgp_v1_...\"}}'\n   ```\n\n   Or drop into the dashboard at http://localhost:18092/ and paste it\n   into the Settings tab.\n\n3. **Optional: data-provider keys** for richer / faster results\n   on larger portfolios (see *Optional configuration → Which keys to\n   obtain (by portfolio size)* below). The engine works key-less in\n   degraded mode (yfinance-only, rate-limited).\n\n### What InvestorClaw recommends — by portfolio size\n\n| Size | Required | Recommended | Why |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| **≤ 50 symbols** | `TOGETHER_API_KEY` (narrative) | — | yfinance handles quotes/history at this scale; one key covers narrative |\n| **50–200 symbols** | `TOGETHER_API_KEY` | `FINNHUB_KEY` (free 60/min) + `NEWSAPI_KEY` (free 100/day) | Real-time quotes + analyst + per-symbol news without yfinance throttle |\n| **200+ symbols** | `TOGETHER_API_KEY` + `MASSIVE_API_KEY` (Massive, paid) | `FINNHUB_KEY` + `MARKETAUX_API_KEY` (free 100/day) + `FRED_API_KEY` (free, registration) + `ALPHA_VANTAGE_KEY` (free 25/day) | Yahoo's anonymous query1 endpoint rate-limits globally on 200+ symbols under barrage; Massive is required, the rest fill analyst + news + yields |\n\nWhy `TOGETHER_API_KEY` is the only hard requirement for narrative:\n\n- Cheapest serverless tier on Together AI (~$0.0008 / 1 K tokens)\n- Default model `google/gemma-4-31B-it` has good quality for portfolio\n  narrative + ~100 tok/s throughput\n- Single key replaces the older multi-tier model setup that v2.x used\n\nSign-up links (all have free tiers):\n\n| Provider | URL | Free-tier limit |\n|---|---|---|\n| Together AI | https://api.together.ai/settings/api-keys | $1 free credits |\n| Finnhub | https://finnhub.io/register | 60 calls/min |\n| Massive (Massive) | https://massive.com/dashboard/api-keys | paid only |\n| MarketAux | https://www.marketaux.com/account/dashboard | 100 calls/day |\n| NewsAPI | https://newsapi.org/register | 100 calls/day |\n| FRED | https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/api_key.html | unlimited (registration only) |\n| Alpha Vantage | https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key | 25 calls/day |\n\nThe `TOGETHER_API_KEY` is the only one that's genuinely required.\nEverything else degrades gracefully.\n\n### First call — what your agent will see\n\nOnce `init_state: ready` and a portfolio is loaded, the very first\n`portfolio_ask` call returns a response shaped like:\n\n```json\n{\n  \"exit_code\": 0,\n  \"narrative\": \"I have holdings summary data in the envelope.\\n- bond_pct: 26.76\\n- bond_value: 705646.57\\n- cash_pct: 1.69\\n- equity_pct: 71.55\\n- equity_value: 1886470.25\\nTop holding symbols: MSFT, NVDA, SCHB, GOOG, AAPL, ...\",\n  \"ic_result\": {\n    \"hmac\": \"75ca79c...\",\n    \"engine_version\": \"2.5.2\",\n    \"command\": \"ask\",\n    \"run_id\": \"299d36b0-...\"\n  }\n}\n```\n\nThe `narrative` field is the agent-facing answer. The `ic_result`\ncontains the HMAC signature that proves the response came from the\ndeterministic engine (not LLM-fabricated).\n\nIf you see *\"is a general finance concept. ic-engine is portfolio-specific\"*\nin the narrative for a question that obviously is about your portfolio,\nyou're on a pre-v4.1.25 image — pull the latest:\n\n```bash\ndocker compose pull && docker compose up -d\n```\n\n---\n\n## How to call the tools\n\n### Option A: native MCP client (preferred)\n\nIf your runtime has a native MCP client, register the server:\n\n```\nURL:       http://127.0.0.1:18090/mcp\nTransport: streamable-http\nAuth:      none (localhost only)\n```\n\nPer-runtime CLI:\n\n| Runtime | Command |\n|---|---|\n| zeroclaw | Add `[[mcp.servers]]` with `name = \"ic-engine\"`, `url = \"http://127.0.0.1:18090/mcp\"`, `transport = \"http\"` to `~/.zeroclaw/config.toml` |\n| openclaw | `openclaw mcp set ic-engine '{\"url\":\"http://127.0.0.1:18090/mcp\",\"transport\":\"streamable-http\"}'` |\n| hermes | `hermes mcp add ic-engine --url http://127.0.0.1:18090/mcp` |\n| claude code | Add to `~/.claude/mcp_servers.json` per Claude Code docs |\n\nThen call tools by name (`portfolio_ask`, `portfolio_holdings`, etc.) via your runtime's tool-use API.\n\n### Option B: plain HTTP REST (works when MCP integration is flaky)\n\nEquivalent endpoints exist at `/api/portfolio/*`. Use your runtime's shell or HTTP tool:\n\n```bash\n# Ask any portfolio question\ncurl -sS -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/ask \\\n  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n  -d '{\"question\": \"What is in my portfolio?\"}' \\\n  --max-time 120\n\n# Other endpoints (no body needed)\ncurl -sS -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/holdings -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}'\ncurl -sS -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/refresh  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}'\ncurl -sS -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/setup    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}'\n\n# Self-describing tool catalog\ncurl -sS http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/tools\n```\n\nThe JSON response has a `narrative` field with the human-readable answer — quote that to the user. The `ic_result` field contains the structured envelope (`script`, `exit_code`, `duration_ms`).\n\n---\n\n## What to ask — example queries\n\nOnce installed, ask portfolio questions in natural language. The agent routes\nthrough `portfolio_ask`; ic-engine handles the deterministic computation and\nthe narrator quotes verbatim from the signed envelope.\n\n| Intent | Example phrasing |\n|---|---|\n| **Holdings snapshot** | \"What's in my portfolio?\" • \"Show me my positions\" • \"What do I own?\" |\n| **Performance** | \"How am I doing this year?\" • \"What's my Sharpe ratio?\" • \"Show me my drawdowns\" |\n| **Bonds** | \"Show me my bond exposure and yield-to-maturity\" • \"What's my bond ladder look like?\" |\n| **Allocation / risk** | \"What's my sector exposure?\" • \"How concentrated is my portfolio?\" • \"What's my risk profile?\" |\n| **Optimization / rebalancing** | \"Help me rebalance to a 60/40 target\" • \"Show me an efficient frontier\" |\n| **Market data** | \"What's the current price of NVDA?\" • \"How is the S&P performing today?\" |\n| **Fixed-income concepts** | \"What does yield-to-maturity mean?\" • \"Explain duration\" |\n| **News** | \"Today's news on my holdings\" • \"Crypto news today\" |\n| **Reports** | \"Generate today's EOD report\" • \"Prepare a full analysis for my advisor meeting\" |\n| **Fresh data** | \"Prices moved — refresh before answering\" → triggers `portfolio_refresh` |\n\nThe first call after a cold cache may take 30–60 seconds while the\ndeterministic pipeline builds the signed envelope. Subsequent calls reuse\nthe cache (TTL: 30s for news, 60s for other sections); ask for a refresh\nexplicitly if data feels stale.\n\n---\n\n## Agent routing rules\n\nThese rules apply when an agent has the InvestorClaw skill installed:\n\n**Use InvestorClaw — do NOT answer from training data, web search, or browsing — for:**\n- Any portfolio / holdings / positions question\n- Performance, returns, Sharpe/Sortino, drawdown\n- Bonds, yield-to-maturity, duration, ladders\n- Sector / asset / account allocation\n- Optimization, rebalancing, target allocation, scenarios\n- Cash flow, dividend / coupon calendars\n- Analyst ratings, price targets\n- Today's news on holdings or market-wide topics\n- Live ticker prices and quotes\n- EOD reports, peer comparison, what-changed analysis\n\n**Deterministic-first rules:**\n- Never calculate portfolio metrics in the agent — call the tool.\n- Never fabricate market, ticker, bond, portfolio, optimization, or news data.\n- Preserve quoted source passages, numbers, dates, timestamps, and freshness\n  labels exactly.\n- If the signed envelope lacks a requested fact, say InvestorClaw did not\n  provide it and quote the engine's limitation verbatim.\n- Use `portfolio_refresh` only when the user asks for fresh data or when\n  data appears stale.\n\n**Attachment handling:**\n- When the user attaches a CSV / XLS / XLSX / PDF / screenshot in the same\n  turn as a portfolio question, stage the file to the bind-mounted\n  `portfolios/` directory, call `portfolio_setup`, then ask the original\n  question.\n- Do not ask the user to move files manually; the agent owns staging.\n- Report low-confidence extraction or setup gaps exactly as InvestorClaw\n  returns them.\n\n**Educational guardrails:**\n- All output is educational, not investment advice.\n- Never present \"buy/sell\" recommendations as advice.\n- Never assess suitability for the user's situation.\n- Preserve the engine's disclaimer language verbatim.\n\n---\n\n## Required response format (when answering as an agent)\n\nEnd every portfolio reply with:\n\n```\nVerification: ic-engine ask completed (exit_code: 0)\n```\n\n(Substitute the actual `exit_code` from the response.) The harness depends on this exact line.\n\nFor finance-concept questions (\"what is YTM?\") or market-wide questions (\"how is the S&P performing?\"), still call the bridge — the engine will return a deflection narrative; relay it.\n\n---\n\n## Configure portfolios\n\nDrop your broker exports (CSV, XLS, PDF) into the bind-mounted directory:\n\n```bash\n# default mount: ./portfolios on the host -> /data/portfolios in the container\nmkdir -p portfolios\ncp ~/Downloads/UBS_Holdings_2026-05-02.xls portfolios/\n\n# Then ask the agent or curl the setup endpoint\ncurl -sS -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/setup -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}'\n```\n\nSupported formats: UBS, Schwab, Fidelity, Vanguard, ETrade, Robinhood (CSV/XLS); generic CSV with `symbol`/`quantity`/`value` columns; PDF statements (auto-extracted).\n\n### Broker export instructions\n\nMost major US brokers expose a CSV download of holdings. CSV is the highest-\ncompatibility format; XLS / XLSX / PDF / screenshot also work.\n\n| Broker | Path |\n|---|---|\n| Schwab | Accounts → Positions → Export CSV |\n| Fidelity | NetBenefits → Investments → Download CSV |\n| Vanguard | My Accounts → Download Holdings |\n| UBS | Wealth Management → Holdings → Export |\n| ETrade | Portfolio → Holdings → Download |\n| Robinhood | Account → Statements → CSV |\n\nWhen the user attaches a broker file directly to an agent chat, the agent\nstages it to the bind-mounted `portfolios/` directory, then calls\n`portfolio_setup` followed by `portfolio_ask`. Account numbers and SSNs are\nscrubbed at ingest before any data leaves the container.\n\n---\n\n## Optional configuration\n\nThe container reads optional env vars from `/data/keys.env` (host-mounted). All optional — the deterministic-engine works without LLM/news keys, just in degraded mode (no narrative synthesis, no live news).\n\n### Which keys to obtain (by portfolio size)\n\nThe bridge has built-in fallback across providers; the only **hard\nrequirement** is an LLM key for narrative synthesis. Below that, your\nchoice depends on portfolio size.\n\n**Small (≤50 symbols)** — yfinance-only is fine:\n- `TOGETHER_API_KEY` (or any LLM): required for narrative\n- That's it. Yahoo Finance handles quotes/history at this scale.\n\n**Medium (50–200 symbols)** — add Finnhub:\n- `TOGETHER_API_KEY`: LLM narrative\n- `FINNHUB_KEY`: real-time quotes + analyst ratings (60/min, free)\n- `NEWSAPI_KEY` *(optional)*: per-symbol news (100/day free)\n\n**Large (200+ symbols)** — Massive (Massive) is required:\n- `TOGETHER_API_KEY`: LLM narrative\n- `MASSIVE_API_KEY` (Massive): paid, un-rate-limited quotes + history\n- `FINNHUB_KEY`: analyst ratings + general/forex/crypto/merger news\n- `MARKETAUX_API_KEY` *(optional)*: broader news with category filters\n- `FRED_API_KEY` *(optional)*: Treasury yield curve (Treasury.gov fallback runs without)\n- `ALPHA_VANTAGE_KEY` *(optional)*: supplemental EOD prices (25/day free)\n\nWhy: Yahoo's anonymous query1 endpoint rate-limits globally (HTTP 429) on\n200+ symbol portfolios under barrage load. Massive (`massive`) handles the\nbulk of quotes/history without throttling; Finnhub fills analyst + news;\nthe no-key Frankfurter (FX) and Treasury Fiscal Data (yields) providers\ncover the remainder.\n\n### Full key reference\n\n| Key | Purpose | Cost note |\n|---|---|---|\n| `TOGETHER_API_KEY` | LLM narrative synthesis (Together google/gemma-4-31B-it) | serverless, fleet default |\n| `MASSIVE_API_KEY` | Massive quotes + history (200+ symbol portfolios) | paid, un-rate-limited |\n| `MASSIVE_API_KEY` (futures) | CME futures via Massive `/futures/vX` — snapshot + history + correct contract-multiplier notional (ES/NQ/CL/GC/ZB…). Only provider routed for futures. | paid |\n| `FINNHUB_KEY` | Real-time quotes + analyst ratings + category news | 60/min free |\n| `MARKETAUX_API_KEY` | Financial news with broader filters than NewsAPI | 100/day free |\n| `NEWSAPI_KEY` | Per-symbol news (US sources only) | 100/day free |\n| `ALPHA_VANTAGE_KEY` | Supplemental EOD prices | 25/day free |\n| `FRED_API_KEY` | FRED yield curve | free, registration required |\n| `OPENAI_API_KEY` | Alternative LLM (GPT-4o, GPT-5) | paid |\n\n### No-key providers (always available)\n\n| Provider | Coverage |\n|---|---|\n| **yfinance** | Quotes, history, news, analyst (rate-limited; safety-net only on 200+ portfolios) |\n| **Frankfurter** | FX spot rates (EUR/USD, USD/JPY, etc.) — ECB-sourced |\n| **Treasury Fiscal Data** | US Treasury yield curve fallback when FRED_API_KEY missing |\n\n### Configure keys via REST/MCP (preferred — no host shell needed)\n\nThe agent can set keys directly via the running container, no `/data/keys.env`\nedit required. Persists atomically (mode 0600), takes effect on the next\n`portfolio_ask` without a restart.\n\n```bash\n# What's configured?\ncurl -sS -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/keys_status \\\n  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}'\n# → {\"configured\":[\"FINNHUB_KEY\",\"NEWSAPI_KEY\"], \"settable\":[...], \"missing\":[...]}\n\n# Set one or more keys\ncurl -sS -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/keys_set \\\n  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n  -d '{\"keys\": {\"TOGETHER_API_KEY\": \"tgp_v1_...\", \"FRED_API_KEY\": \"...\"}}'\n# → {\"configured\":[\"FRED_API_KEY\",\"TOGETHER_API_KEY\"], \"rejected\":[], \"deleted\":[]}\n\n# Remove a key\ncurl -sS -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/keys_delete \\\n  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{\"name\": \"OPENAI_API_KEY\"}'\n```\n\nThe same operations are available as MCP tools: `portfolio_keys_status`,\n`portfolio_keys_set`, `portfolio_keys_delete`. Only the standard ic-engine\nkey names are accepted; arbitrary names are rejected with a structured\n`{\"rejected\": [...], \"settable\": [...]}` response.\n\n### Configure keys via host file (alternative)\n\nIf you prefer to manage keys outside the container, drop them into\n`portfolios/keys.env` on the host (the bind-mounted location), one\n`KEY=VALUE` per line:\n\n```env\nTOGETHER_API_KEY=tgp_v1_...\nFINNHUB_KEY=...\nNEWSAPI_KEY=...\n```\n\nThe container reads from `/data/keys.env` at boot.\n\n---\n\n## Model recommendations\n\nInvestorClaw uses two LLM roles when answering: **narrative** (synthesizes\nthe signed envelope into prose) and **validator** (checks the narrative\nagainst the envelope for fabrication and number-preservation). The\nrecommended model mix depends on your runtime.\n\n### Claude Code / Claude Desktop\n\nThe agent's own LLM does both roles — no external API key required.\n\n- **Narrative**: Haiku 4.5 — fast, cheap, ~10× lower output cost than\n  Sonnet. Synthesis with a clean envelope is mostly transcription, so the\n  cheap model is sufficient.\n- **Validator**: Sonnet 4.6 (default) or Opus 4.7 (escalation) — gates the\n  Haiku output for fabrication, mis-quoted numbers, and training-leak\n  drift. Validator output is short (~1 K tokens) so the smart-model bill\n  stays low.\n\nThis split is cost-shaped: cheap model on the long output, smart model on\nthe short safety check. Total session cost on a 100-position portfolio\ntypically lands well under $0.01.\n\n### openclaw / zeroclaw / hermes\n\n**Anthropic on the claws stack — three paths, two of them paid:**\nsince 2026-04-04 your Anthropic OAuth subscription no longer covers\nthird-party-tool usage. To use Anthropic models on a claws-agent\nruntime you need either (a) Anthropic's discounted \"extra usage\nbundles\" added to your subscription, or (b) a direct Anthropic API\nkey. Routing OAuth-subscription tokens to a claws-agent without one of\nthose is a ToS violation per Anthropic's Apr 3 announcement.\n\nEven with paid credits, Anthropic isn't cost-competitive with Together\nfor InvestorClaw narrative synthesis (~10–50× the per-token cost).\n**On our own fleet infrastructure we don't deploy Anthropic for these\nruntimes**; end-users should weigh ToS, cost, and quality before\nopting into it.\n\nBring a non-Anthropic provider via `TOGETHER_API_KEY` (or equivalent).\nFleet defaults:\n\n- **Default narrative**: Together AI `google/gemma-4-31B-it` — serverless\n  tier, ~100 tok/s, ~$0.0008 / 1 K tokens, ships as the container default.\n- **Higher-quality alternative**: Together AI `MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2` —\n  larger context, but **moved off Together's serverless tier in 2026-05**\n  and now requires a paid dedicated endpoint. Use only if you've\n  provisioned that endpoint.\n- **Local-only / offline**: Ollama `gemma4:e4b` on host — zero cloud cost,\n  GPU-bound, no key required.\n\nTo switch the narrative model, set `INVESTORCLAW_NARRATIVE_MODEL` in\n`portfolios/keys.env` (e.g. `INVESTORCLAW_NARRATIVE_MODEL=MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2`\nonce you have a dedicated endpoint configured at Together).\nThe container reads it on next call without restart.\n\n---\n\n## Data privacy\n\n**Stays on your machine:**\n- Raw broker exports (CSV / XLS / PDF) in `portfolios/`\n- Account numbers and SSNs (scrubbed at ingest)\n- Full position details (lot history, cost basis)\n- Python computation internals (intermediate calculations)\n\n**Sent to the configured LLM provider for narrative synthesis:**\n- The user's question\n- The HMAC-signed JSON envelope produced by ic-engine\n- Computed metrics needed for presentation\n\n**Never sent anywhere:**\n- Raw PII (account numbers, SSNs, names)\n- Pre-computation intermediate state\n- Other portfolios on the same disk\n\nInvestorClaw never executes trades, never moves money, never accesses\nbrokerage APIs for transactions. Output is educational only.\n\n---\n\n## Verify install + compliance\n\n```bash\n# Health check\ncurl -sS http://127.0.0.1:18090/healthz\n# → {\"status\":\"ok\",\"ic_engine_bin_found\":true,\"portfolio_dir\":\"/data/portfolios\",\"portfolio_dir_exists\":true,\"reports_dir\":\"/data/reports\"}\n\n# Smoke test the tool catalog\ncurl -sS http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/tools | python3 -m json.tool\n\n# Smoke test a real question\ncurl -sS -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/ask \\\n  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n  -d '{\"question\": \"What is in my portfolio?\"}' \\\n  --max-time 120\n```\n\nIf your agent supports compliance testing, vendor `test_mcp_compliance.py`\nfrom the `mnemos-os/mcp-contracts` GitHub repository into your project, then run:\n\n```bash\npython3 test_mcp_compliance.py --url http://127.0.0.1:18090/mcp\n```\n\n---\n\n## Dashboard\n\nThe container exposes a single-page HTML dashboard on port `:18092`:\n\n```bash\nopen http://localhost:18092/        # macOS\nxdg-open http://localhost:18092/    # Linux\nstart http://localhost:18092/       # Windows\n```\n\nTabs cover: Holdings · Performance · Bonds · Analyst · News · Cashflow ·\nOptimize · Synthesis · What-changed · Tax · Scenarios · Peer · Reports ·\nSettings · About.\n\nThe dashboard reads the same signed envelope ic-engine produces for\n`portfolio_ask`, so metrics stay in sync. Use it for visual review of\nholdings / performance, or as a fallback interface when MCP integration\nis flaky.\n\n---\n\n## Troubleshooting\n\n### Container won't start\n\n```bash\ndocker compose logs ic-engine | tail -50\ndocker ps | grep ic-engine        # confirm running + healthy\ncurl -sS http://127.0.0.1:18090/healthz\n```\n\nIf `healthz` returns `{\"init_state\":\"failed\", ...}`, check the `init_error`\nfield for the engine's exact failure message.\n\n### \"No portfolio found\" when asking\n\n- Drop a CSV / XLS / PDF into `portfolios/` (the host bind mount).\n- Then call setup:\n  `curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/setup -d '{}'`\n- Then ask again:\n  `curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/ask -d '{\"question\":\"what's in my portfolio?\"}'`\n\nThe agent can stage attached files to `portfolios/` directly when the user\nsends them in chat.\n\n### \"API key errors\" / degraded data\n\nKeys are optional. The deterministic-engine works key-less in degraded\nmode (no narrative synthesis, no live news, yfinance-only quotes). To\ncheck what's configured:\n\n```bash\ncurl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/keys_status -d '{}'\n```\n\nSet the missing key via the REST endpoint shown in\n[Optional configuration](#optional-configuration).\n\n### \"First call is slow (5–15 minutes)\"\n\nOnly happens on a cold cache for portfolios with 200+ positions. The\ncontainer runs `IC_INITIALIZE_ON_BOOT=1` by default — initialization runs\nat container start, so by the time the agent connects, the cache is warm.\nIf you disabled that env var, expect cold-start latency on first ask.\n\nCheck init progress: `curl http://127.0.0.1:18090/api/portfolio/initialize/status`\n\n### \"Container is healthy but `portfolio_ask` times out\"\n\n- Bridge subprocess timeout is 1800 s on `portfolio_ask` and `portfolio_refresh`.\n- Engine P1 parallel-stage timeout is 600 s.\n- If you hit either, the engine ran out of upstream API budget (yfinance\n  429, Finnhub rate limit, etc.). Switch to Massive (`MASSIVE_API_KEY`)\n  for large portfolios; see \"Which keys to obtain (by portfolio size)\".\n\n### Reset cache + state\n\n```bash\ndocker compose down -v   # removes the data volume — all envelopes lost\ndocker compose up -d     # cold restart with auto-init\n```\n\n---\n\n## Stop / uninstall\n\n```bash\n# Stop (preserves data)\ndocker compose down\n\n# Stop and remove the data volume\ndocker compose down -v\n```\n\n---\n\n## Security model\n\nInvestorClaw is a single-user, localhost-bound, deterministic-first\nanalyzer. Several behaviors that automated scanners flag as \"warning\"\nare intentional design choices for this threat model. Documented here\nexplicitly so reviewers can audit the trade-offs:\n\n| Behavior | Why it's by design |\n|---|---|\n| **MCP + REST endpoints are unauthenticated on `127.0.0.1:18090`** | Localhost binding (`127.0.0.1:` prefix on the port spec, never `0.0.0.0`) is the security boundary. Any process running as the same user already has filesystem access to portfolios; adding token auth on a loopback API doesn't change that threat model. To expose the service to other hosts, put it behind your own auth layer (Tailscale, nginx + mTLS). |\n| **Container auto-initializes on boot** (`IC_INITIALIZE_ON_BOOT=1`) | The cold-cache cost on a 200+ position portfolio is 5–15 minutes; running setup → refresh → seed_ask at boot means agents see `init_state: ready` immediately on connect. Disable with `IC_INITIALIZE_ON_BOOT=0` if you want manual control. The init does not exfiltrate data — it just primes the engine's read-only cache against the providers you've configured. |\n| **API keys persist to `/data/keys.env` (mode 0600)** | Keys need to outlive container restarts. The named volume is `ic-engine-data`; on the host that's a docker volume root-owned but only readable by the container's `uid=1000(ic)`. To rotate or delete a key, use `portfolio_keys_set` / `portfolio_keys_delete` — both REST endpoints accept allowlisted names only, never logging values. |\n| **Portfolio summaries are sent to the configured narrative LLM provider** | This is the value prop: the engine produces a deterministic envelope, the narrator turns it into prose. To keep narratives local, point `INVESTORCLAW_NARRATIVE_ENDPOINT` at a local Ollama / llama-server / vLLM endpoint (set `INVESTORCLAW_NARRATIVE_PROVIDER=ollama`). To run keyless without any narrator, omit `TOGETHER_API_KEY` — the engine returns a stub catalog summary instead. See [`PRIVACY.md`](PRIVACY.md) for the full data-flow matrix. |\n| **Image pulled from `ghcr.io/argonautsystems/ic-engine`** | Pinned to a specific sha256 digest in `compose.yml`, not just the tag — guarantees reproducible builds even if the tag is later mutated. Verify the digest matches what your scanner expects before deploying. Container Apache 2.0 + bridge code MIT-0 in this repo; engine source at `argonautsystems/ic-engine` (pinned by SHA). |\n\nFor vulnerability disclosure see [`SECURITY.md`](SECURITY.md). For the\nprivacy model (what stays local vs what goes to which provider) see\n[`PRIVACY.md`](PRIVACY.md).\n\n## Behavior contract\n\n- `portfolio_ask` invokes the engine's deterministic refresh-aware path; if a section is stale (news TTL=30s, others 60s) it is refreshed before answering. Earlier `--no-refresh` short-circuited routing entirely and produced a generic catalog blurb — that flag is intentionally NOT passed.\n- The container clears yfinance cookies on subprocess timeout, breaking the rate-limit cascade documented in commit `50387b1` of `mnemos-os/mnemos-ic-runtime`.\n- Cross-container reach works via `http://172.17.0.1:18090/mcp` (Docker bridge IP) or via Compose service name `http://ic-engine:8090/mcp` (when both agent + ic-engine are in the same compose).\n\n## Known issues (v4.1.1)\n\n- **Earlier \"v4.0.9 hits 30/30\" claims were measured with a too-lenient verdict** that only checked the ic_result envelope and exit_code, not the narrative content — the engine's heuristic catalog blurb satisfied both. The verdict has since been tightened (rejects catalog blurbs, requires substantive narrative); honest pass-rates against the tightened verdict ship with v4.1.1 release notes.\n- **Cold-start `portfolio_ask` may take 5–15 minutes** on a 200+ position portfolio when the envelope cache is empty (engine runs P0 holdings → P1 parallel performance/bonds/analyst/news → P2 synthesis → P3 optimize+cashflow → P4 peer, each consuming yfinance / FRED / Finnhub bandwidth). Subsequent calls hit the warm cache and return in seconds. Bridge subprocess timeout is 1800s for `portfolio_ask` and `portfolio_refresh`; engine P1 parallel-stage timeout is 600s.\n\n### Fixed in v4.1.1 (was broken in v4.0.x → v4.1.0)\n\n- **Engine pipeline only persisting the analyst section** (`Section did not run` on every other section): root cause was the engine's P1 parallel-stage timeout of 60s — performance/bonds/analyst/news running in parallel against yfinance overflowed it on large portfolios, asyncio.gather raised TimeoutError, the entire P1 result set was lost. Bumped to 600s.\n- **Narrator falling through to a heuristic catalog blurb** for every `portfolio_ask`: chain of five bugs — litellm stripped from the container; narrator wrapped the LLM call in a bare try/except; consultation client misrouted IP-addressed local servers; narrator pulled the short-context CONSULTATION_* model instead of the long-context NARRATIVE_* model; full envelope (200k+ tokens) overflowed even MiniMax-M2.7. All five fixed.\n- **`--no-refresh` short-circuiting routing**: bridge passed `--no-refresh` to every `portfolio_ask` (commit `a3492f6`, v4.0.7), making the engine return the cached catalog blurb regardless of question. Reverted.\n\n---\n\n## License + provenance\n\n- Service code: Apache 2.0 (`mnemos-os/mnemos-ic-runtime`)\n- Distribution-edge artifacts (this `SKILL.md`, `compose.yml`, `install.yaml`, `agent-skills/**`): **MIT-0** (MIT No Attribution — `LICENSE-MIT-0`). Required for ClawHub plugin publishing; the no-attribution clause means downstream skill registries can re-host without preserving copyright notice.\n- Image: `ghcr.io/argonautsystems/ic-engine:4.10.0-cpu` (multi-arch amd64+arm64; also at `:latest`)\n- RFC: see `RFC-v0.1.md` in this bundle (`mnemos-os/mnemos-ic-runtime` GitHub repository)\n- Cross-project contract: `mnemos-os/mcp-contracts` GitHub repository\n\n---\n\n*InvestorClaw is a portfolio analysis service. 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