SKILL.md
skills/ito-trade-planner/SKILL.md
name: ito-trade-planner
description: Build a non-advisory prediction-market trade planning worksheet for Itô or venue workflows. Use to inspect venues, underliers, constraints, order prerequisites, and manual execution steps without placing trades or recommending positions.
metadata:
origin: ECCItô Trade Planner
Use this skill when a user wants a structured worksheet for a prediction-market idea, basket adjustment, venue comparison, or manual execution plan.
The skill is intentionally non-executing. It produces indicative, non-executable checklists and parameter tables the user can review manually.
Guardrails
- Do not say a trade is good, bad, optimal, or recommended.
- Do not provide investment advice or position sizing advice.
- Do not place, cancel, route, or sign orders.
- Do not request private keys, seed phrases, exchange passwords, or wallet
credentials.
- Require a separate workflow and explicit user approval before moving from
research to execution-capable tooling. This approval does not authorize this skill to execute anything.
- If execution is requested, stop after the worksheet without invoking, calling,
or opening an execution-capable tool or venue.
Read-Only API And Authentication Boundary
The canonical developer surface is https://itomarkets.com/api/v1. Use only authenticated GET endpoints requiring baskets:read or markets:read, either with HTTPS and Authorization: Bearer $ITO_API_KEY or the official ito-markets Python SDK. Trading is not part of this API.
On first use, check for an already configured key with exactly baskets:read and markets:read without printing it. Least-privilege public keys use the bkt_ form and are operator-issued; the dashboard's Settings -> Keys & credentials flow issues a broader ito_ automation key. Do not create or rotate that broader key merely to unblock this skill. If a scoped key is unavailable, report the read-only API route as blocked and continue with clearly labeled public or user- supplied inputs. Key issuance creates persistent access and needs confirmation in the controlling harness. After the user or operator stores the one-time value securely, return control to the originating agent and run one minimal GET /baskets auth probe. This API does not use device authorization or device login; do not invent a verification-code handoff.
The ecc ito bridge is a separate compute-procurement surface. Do not use ecc ito login, ecc ito find, or its MCP tools for prediction-market data or trade planning. Never print, log, persist, or place ITO_API_KEY in arguments, reports, screenshots, tracked files, or chat. Retrieve only the minimum field at runtime and keep it in process memory.
Mark API observations indicative. Use GET /baskets, GET /baskets/{basket_id}, GET /baskets/{basket_id}/price, GET /baskets/{basket_id}/underlyers, GET /markets/search, and GET /markets/{market_id} as needed. Do not use write or backtest submission endpoints for a trade-planning worksheet.
Planning Workflow
- Restate the user's idea as a neutral hypothesis.
- Identify markets, venues, underliers, resolution rules, fees, and data
freshness constraints.
- If the user requested live Itô data, make the smallest authenticated read and
record the endpoint URL and retrieved_at timestamp. Never infer a live price from stale, missing, or inaccessible data; use unknown.
- Collect constraints without inventing values: jurisdiction/account
eligibility, venue, market identifier, side (if the user supplied one), limit, time-in-force, maximum spend, fees, liquidity/slippage boundary, resolution rule, and decision deadline. Missing constraints remain unknown.
- Run
prediction-market-risk-reviewbefore discussing automation, keys,
venue auth, capital constraints, or a manual action link.
- Build a manual worksheet:
- market/underlier
- venue
- data source
- current observable price or status
- resolution rule
- liquidity caveat
- open questions
- manual action link or next review step
- If the user asks to continue toward execution, list the unresolved gates and
request separate explicit confirmation in the future execution-capable workflow. Do not treat confirmation given during planning as an order.
Recovery And Failure States
- On
401, setplan_status: blockedand ask the user to inspect or replace the
key in Settings. On 403, report the missing read scope; never request a write scope for this skill. Redact any credential-like text.
- On
429, honorRetry-Afteronce within the user's time budget. Do not loop or
exceed the documented read budget of 120 requests per minute.
- On timeout or ambiguous transport failure, set affected values to
unknown.
Retry at most once for a read; never turn a read failure into a write.
- On expired or revoked access, stop, redact server details that could contain
credentials, and direct the user to Settings. Never weaken scopes or reuse cached secrets.
- Public and private sources must be labeled separately. Do not present cached
or fixture data as live behavior.
Allowed Language
Use:
- "manual planning worksheet"
- "questions to answer before acting"
- "observable venue data"
- "risk and constraint review"
Avoid:
- "you should buy/sell"
- "best trade"
- "guaranteed"
- "risk-free"
- "optimal size"
Structured Output Contract
Return this shape in Markdown or YAML. Preserve unknown rather than guessing.
plan_status: ready_for_manual_review | blocked
mode: indicative_non_executable
hypothesis: "neutral restatement"
markets:
- market: "identifier or unknown"
venue: "venue or unknown"
observable_status: "value or unknown"
source_url: "source URL or unknown"
retrieved_at: "ISO-8601 timestamp or unknown"
resolution_rule: "summary or unknown"
liquidity_caveat: "text or unknown"
constraints:
jurisdiction_eligibility: "confirmed | unconfirmed | unknown"
limit: "user supplied value or unknown"
maximum_spend: "user supplied value or unknown"
fees: "value or unknown"
decision_deadline: "value or unknown"
data_freshness: "timestamp and caveats"
risk_review:
status: pass | warn | fail | not_run
findings: []
blocked_actions:
- "order placement, cancellation, routing, signing, and submission"
next_safe_step: "one non-executing review action"
End every plan with exactly:
This is a planning worksheet, not investment or trading advice. Review venue
rules and make any trading decisions yourself.