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name: investorclaw
description: Deterministic-first portfolio analyzer for Claude Code via MCP-HTTP at localhost:18090. Holdings, performance, Sharpe + Sortino, FRED yields, bond duration, scenario rebalancing.
homepage: https://github.com/argonautsystems/InvestorClaw
user-invocable: true
metadata: {"license":"MIT-0","version":"4.6.2","runtime":"claude-code","image":"ghcr.io/argonautsystems/ic-engine:4.6.2-cpu","mcp-endpoint":"http://localhost:18090/mcp"}
---

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# InvestorClaw — Claude Code Plugin (v4.0)

> Powered by [InvestorClaw](https://investorclaw.app) (Apache 2.0).
> This plugin is MIT-0-licensed.

## What this is

InvestorClaw is a containerized portfolio analysis service. The user
runs it locally as two Docker containers via `docker compose up -d`;
this Claude Code plugin is the thin client that registers the service's
MCP servers with your agent and exposes two convenience slash commands.

The plugin is a manifest + this SKILL.md + a one-time config write
that points Claude Code at two HTTP MCP endpoints on localhost. All
analysis happens inside the user's Docker containers — the agent
never installs or imports anything.

This is the current Claude Code / Claude Desktop path. The plugin
installs directly from the `argonautsystems/InvestorClaw` repo and uses
the same skill bundle and same container-first runtime as every other
agent.

## Slash commands the plugin exposes

The plugin registers two slash commands so portfolio questions don't
depend on the LLM spontaneously deciding to call MCP tools:

- **`/ask <question>`** — routes to the `investorclaw.portfolio_ask`
  tool. Pass the user's natural-language portfolio question (e.g.,
  `/ask what are my top 5 dividend payers?`). The deterministic engine
  picks the right analyzer and returns a structured `ic_result` plus
  narrative text.

- **`/refresh`** — routes to `investorclaw.portfolio_refresh`. Pulls
  fresh market data without re-uploading portfolio files. Use this when
  the user has been chatting for a while and quotes may be stale.

These commands are deterministic entry points: the user types the slash
command, Claude Code dispatches it to the named MCP tool, the engine
returns structured output. **No LLM routing decision is involved at the
slash-command boundary.** This is by design — slash commands are
load-bearing for reliability.

## MCP tools available (after install)

When InvestorClaw is running and the plugin is loaded, your tool
catalog gains:

### Portfolio analysis (`investorclaw.*`)

- `investorclaw.portfolio_ask` — natural-language question router (also
  invoked by `/ask`)
- `investorclaw.portfolio_refresh` — market-data refresh (also invoked
  by `/refresh`)
- `investorclaw.portfolio_holdings` — current snapshot of positions,
  values, weights
- `investorclaw.portfolio_performance` — Sharpe, volatility, top/bottom
  performers, max drawdown
- `investorclaw.portfolio_bonds` — bond analytics (YTM, duration, FRED
  yield curve)
- `investorclaw.portfolio_analyst` — analyst ratings per holding
- `investorclaw.portfolio_news` — news correlation for held positions
- `investorclaw.portfolio_lookup` — ticker / account lookup
- `investorclaw.portfolio_optimize` — Sharpe / min-vol optimization
- `investorclaw.portfolio_rebalance` — current vs target with tax impact
- `investorclaw.portfolio_scenario` — what-if scenarios on holdings
- `investorclaw.portfolio_cashflow` — projected cashflow from bonds
- `investorclaw.portfolio_peer` — peer comparison vs benchmark
- `investorclaw.portfolio_setup` — auto-discover portfolio files in
  `/data/portfolios/` inside the container
- `investorclaw.portfolio_guardrails` — view/configure educational-only
  guardrails

### Memory (`mnemos.*`)

- `mnemos.search_memories` — full-text + semantic search across
  remembered observations
- `mnemos.create_memory` — record an observation about the user's
  preferences, prior questions, or current investing context
- `mnemos.list_memories` — browse by category / date

## What to ask — example queries

| Intent | Phrasing |
|---|---|
| Holdings | "What's in my portfolio?" • "Show me my positions" |
| Performance | "How am I doing this year?" • "What's my Sharpe ratio?" |
| Bonds | "Show me my bond exposure and yield-to-maturity" |
| Allocation | "What's my sector exposure?" • "How concentrated am I?" |
| Optimization | "Help me rebalance to a 60/40 target" |
| Market data | "What's the current price of NVDA?" |
| News | "Today's news on my holdings" |
| Reports | "Generate today's EOD report" • "Prepare an advisor brief" |
| Fresh data | "Prices moved — refresh before answering" → `/refresh` |

The first call after a cold cache may take 30–60 seconds while the
deterministic pipeline builds the signed envelope. Subsequent calls reuse
the cache.

## Recommended model split

Claude Code uses the agent's own LLM — no external API key required.

- **Narrative**: Haiku 4.5 — fast, cheap, ~10× lower output cost than
  Sonnet. With a clean signed envelope, narrative synthesis is mostly
  transcription, so the cheap model is sufficient.
- **Validator**: Sonnet 4.6 (default) or Opus 4.7 (escalation) — gates
  the Haiku output for fabrication, mis-quoted numbers, and training-leak
  drift. Validator output is short (~1 K tokens), so the smart-model bill
  stays low.

Cost-shaped: cheap model on the long output, smart model on the short
safety check. Total session cost on a 100-position portfolio typically
lands well under $0.01.

## How to use it

1. **For portfolio questions:** prefer `/ask "<question>"`. It's
   deterministic and surfaces the structured `ic_result` envelope
   directly. Decorate the narrative if the user wants more context, but
   trust the engine's numbers — they are computed in code, not inferred.

2. **For follow-up questions:** call `mnemos.search_memories` first to
   pull relevant prior observations (e.g., user's risk tolerance, prior
   discussions about specific holdings). Then call the appropriate
   `investorclaw.*` tool with that context in mind.

3. **For "what changed" questions:** call `mnemos.search_memories` for
   prior portfolio summaries; compare against the current
   `investorclaw.portfolio_holdings` output.

4. **After delivering an analysis:** call `mnemos.create_memory` to
   record any salient observations the user might want to remember
   (e.g., "User flagged BABA as a never-sell sentimental position
   during the 2026-04-30 review"). Don't over-record — only record what
   wouldn't be obvious from re-reading the data later.

5. **When the user uploads a portfolio file:** stage the attachment to
   the bind-mounted `portfolios/` directory (see top-level SKILL.md for
   the agent file-staging contract), then call `portfolio_setup`
   followed by `portfolio_ask`. Or direct the user to the dashboard at
   http://localhost:18092 if they prefer to drop files there directly.

## Presentation rules

- Preserve quoted source text, numerical values, timestamps, and
  freshness labels exactly.
- Never fabricate market, ticker, bond, news, or optimization data.
- If the engine's signed envelope lacks a requested fact, say
  InvestorClaw did not provide it and quote the engine's limitation
  verbatim.
- If data looks stale, suggest `/refresh` before answering.

## Important behaviors

- **Deterministic at the data layer.** The investorclaw tools compute
  numbers in code. If a portfolio format isn't recognized, you'll get a
  structured error with detected columns and supported formats. Don't
  ask the LLM to disambiguate — surface the error and direct the user
  to the dashboard's column-mapping wizard at
  http://localhost:18092/portfolios/map.

- **Educational only — never investment advice.** All outputs include
  a disclaimer envelope. Echo it when summarizing for the user. Do not
  recommend specific buys or sells.

- **No money movement, no trades.** This plugin cannot execute trades,
  move money, place orders, or access brokerage accounts. If the user
  asks for any of those, decline and direct them to a licensed advisor.

- **Local by default.** MCP endpoint is on `localhost:18090` (REST +
  MCP); dashboard is on `localhost:18092`. If the user has deployed the
  service to a remote host (Tailscale VM, cloud), the URLs change but
  the tool surface is identical — the user edits the manifest's MCP
  server URL.

## When the plugin can't reach the service

If `investorclaw.*` calls fail with connection errors, the user's
Docker containers aren't running. Tell the user:

1. Open a terminal and run `docker compose ps` in `~/.investorclaw/`
2. If containers aren't listed: `cd ~/.investorclaw && docker compose up -d`
3. If Docker itself isn't installed: see INSTALL.md for the prereq link
4. If the MCP servers still don't respond after `docker compose up -d`:
   wait ~10 seconds for health checks, then retry

See INSTALL.md for the full bring-up sequence.

## Install

**Claude Code / Claude Desktop:**

```
/plugin marketplace add argonautsystems/InvestorClaw
/plugin install investorclaw
```


**OpenClaw / ZeroClaw / Hermes users:** install via ClawHub:

```bash
clawhub install perlowja/investorclaw
```

## What this plugin does NOT do

- Does not install or execute any code on the agent side — it's a
  manifest, this SKILL.md, and an MCP-server config write
- Does not download or execute portfolio data on the agent side
- Does not manage credentials (the engine reads broker CSVs the user
  drops in the dashboard)
- Does not execute trades or move money
- Does not give investment advice

## License + attribution

- This plugin (manifest, SKILL.md, INSTALL.md) is **MIT-0-licensed**.
- The InvestorClaw service it connects to is **Apache 2.0**, hosted at
  `github.com/argonautsystems/InvestorClaw` and the runtime container at
  `github.com/argonautsystems/ic-engine`.
- The MNEMOS memory service is **Apache 2.0**, hosted at
  `mnemos-os/mnemos-rs`.

> Powered by [InvestorClaw](https://investorclaw.app) (Apache 2.0).
> This plugin is MIT-0-licensed.
