ib-account

Get account summary from Interactive Brokers including cash balance, buying power, and account value. Use when user asks about their account, balance, buying power, or available cash. Requires TWS or IB Gateway running locally.

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Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A concise, well-structured single-purpose skill body with an executable command, real backing script, and explicit port-fallback recovery. It satisfies the simple-skill exceptions for workflow clarity and progressive disclosure.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean and mostly assumes Claude's competence, limiting prose to non-obvious detail (port fallback, IB_PORT precedence, uv fallback note); a couple of sentences could be trimmed but it avoids over-explanation.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides a fully executable, copy-paste-ready command ('uv run python scripts/account.py [--port PORT] [--account ACCOUNT_ID] [--all-accounts]') backed by the real scripts/account.py, with each flag documented.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	As a single-purpose read operation the action is unambiguous, and it includes an explicit error-recovery feedback loop (port fallback -> retry other port -> save working type to memory -> else ask user to verify TWS/Gateway).	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Under 50 lines with no need for external references; the single referenced file (scripts/account.py) exists and is one level deep, and sections (IB Connection, Instructions, Arguments, Output, Dependencies, Timezone) are well-organized.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

Description

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A strong, third-person description that clearly states capability and trigger conditions with concrete field names and a niche scope. Minor gains possible from adding a few more trigger synonyms.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain (IB account summary) and concrete returned fields ('cash balance, buying power, and account value'), but describes essentially one action rather than a broad set, so it sits just below the comprehensive 5 anchor.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ('Get account summary from Interactive Brokers including cash balance, buying power, and account value') and when ('Use when user asks about their account, balance, buying power, or available cash') with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural user phrases ('account, balance, buying power, or available cash') that users would plausibly say, though it omits some synonyms/extensions like 'account value' as a trigger or 'net liquidation'.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	'Interactive Brokers' carves a clear niche with distinct triggers and a concrete runtime prerequisite (TWS/IB Gateway), giving minimal overlap risk with other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: staskh/trading_skills
Path: .claude/skills/ib-account/SKILL.md
Commit: 9a1bf57

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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