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Howard Marks-style market cycle position 0-100, with 0 = panic bottom (hard offense) and 100 = euphoric top (hard defense). Blends VIX (40%) + SPY IV Rank (25%) + Put/Call ratio (20%) + valuation percentile (15%) into a single number and maps to an offense-vs-defense posture. Free endpoint, no auth, 5-min cache — the goal is to make "where are we in the cycle" a one-call lookup. Triggers: "where is the market in the cycle", "Howard Marks style cycle read", "am I supposed to be offensive or defensive", "is this a buying cycle", "cycle position right now", "Marks cycle score", "sentiment read for SPY"

ClawHub Agent Skills author: Clement Gu v1.0.0 MIT-0 2 files body ≈ 821 tokens Open the sourceclawhub.ai↗ analyzed 10 h ago

Howard Marks-style market cycle position 0-100, with 0 = panic bottom (hard offense) and 100 = euphoric top (hard defense).

As a process F 35/100 · Will not run — References files that are not bundled: ../alphagbm-vix-status/, ../alphagbm-market-sentiment/, ../alphagbm-fear-score/

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Technical rating
B
86/100
safety, quality, tests
Safety 60%
100
Quality 40%
64
Run on models
none yet
Process rating
F
35/100
Will not run
References files that are not bundled: ../alphagbm-vix-status/, ../alphagbm-market-sentiment/, ../alphagbm-fear-score/
Tools and files w 18
0
Result and completion w 14
0
Inputs and preconditions w 11
0
the three weakest of ten parameters · all ten

How to improve

  1. Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
  2. The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
For the model run — optional
  • Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
  • A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.

Guard findings · 0

✓ No critical or high findings

Files scanned: 2. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.

Against the Agent Skills spec

  • warning description-no-when description does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when")
  • warning missing-ref reference to a missing file: ../alphagbm-vix-status/
  • warning missing-ref reference to a missing file: ../alphagbm-market-sentiment/
  • warning missing-ref reference to a missing file: ../alphagbm-fear-score/
  • note frontmatter-key unknown frontmatter key "globs"

Process rating: all ten parameters 35/100

Will not run. References files that are not bundled: ../alphagbm-vix-status/, ../alphagbm-market-sentiment/, ../alphagbm-fear-score/
  • 0Tools and files. 3 referenced file(s) missing: ../alphagbm-vix-status/, ../alphagbm-market-sentiment/, ../alphagbm-fear-score/
  • 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
  • 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
  • 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
  • 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
  • 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
  • 100Steps. 14 steps
  • 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
  • 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 821 tokens
  • 100Running it twice. No mutating operations

Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.

Quality signals

  • +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
  • +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
  • +1No license
  • +2Single-language instructions
  • +5Description quotes 7 example trigger phrases
  • +3Description length 606: enough signal without eating the budget
  • +4Structure: 9 headings
  • +3Step-by-step instructions: 14 items
  • +4Has examples (2 code blocks)

Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 64.

External checks

ClawHub: suspicious
The skill is simple and non-executable, but it gives broad, direct trading posture recommendations without clear risk framing or explicit user control.
LLM: suspicious (medium) · VirusTotal: · 23 Jul 2026