Skills

Expert guidance for systematic backtesting of trading strategies. Use when developing, testing, stress-testing, or validating quantitative trading strategies. Covers "beating ideas to death" methodology, parameter robustness testing, slippage modeling, bias prevention, and interpreting backtest results. Applicable when user asks about backtesting, strategy validation, robustness testing, avoiding overfitting, or systematic trading development.

Debug Hermes TUI slash commands: Python, gateway, Ink UI.

Configure, extend, or contribute to Hermes Agent.

Author in-repo SKILL.md: frontmatter, validator, structure.

Modify, debug, or extend the s6-overlay supervision tree inside the Hermes Agent Docker image — adding new services, debugging profile gateways, understanding the Architecture B main-program pattern.

Debug Node.js via --inspect + Chrome DevTools Protocol CLI.

Plan mode: write markdown plan to .hermes/plans/, no exec.

Debug Python: pdb REPL + debugpy remote (DAP).

Pre-commit review: security scan, quality gates, auto-fix.

Throwaway experiments to validate an idea before build.

Execute plans via delegate_task subagents (2-stage review).

4-phase root cause debugging: understand bugs before fixing.

TDD: enforce RED-GREEN-REFACTOR, tests before code.

Write implementation plans: bite-sized tasks, paths, code.