# Market Watch

Track live prices for the tickers central to the current task.

- Repository: https://github.com/ginlix-ai/LangAlpha (2232 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add ginlix-ai/LangAlpha --skill market-watch -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add ginlix-ai/LangAlpha --skill market-watch -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add ginlix-ai/LangAlpha --skill market-watch -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add ginlix-ai/LangAlpha --skill market-watch -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Track live prices for the tickers central to the current task. Registers symbols for an ambient real-time price feed, keeps analysis current with the newest quotes, and re-checks staleness before stating prices.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Market Watch

Keep intraday analysis anchored to live prices. When a task turns on
current price, a level check, an intraday move, a "where is it trading
now", register the central tickers so fresh quotes arrive automatically
and your numbers never go stale mid-task.

Evidence labels, source tiers, staleness, the readiness posture and the intake limits: `.agents/skills/research-conventions/SKILL.md`, read before a price you pulled here lands in a deliverable.

## When to use

Intraday or live-price analysis where the price may move while you work:
"is NVDA above 205 right now", "how's TSLA trading into the print",
sizing a level off the current quote. Skip it for purely historical or
end-of-day work where a single snapshot is enough.

## Workflow

1. **At the start of the task**, identify the ticker(s) central to the
   request and register them immediately with `watch_market`.
2. **While they matter**, read the ambient feed (below) for the current
   price rather than re-quoting on every step.
3. **When live tracking is no longer relevant**, call `watch_market` with
   `action="unwatch"` to stop watching some or all symbols (omit `symbols`
   to clear the whole list).

## How the feed works

Once a symbol is watched, fresh prices arrive on their own as
`<market-watch>` price blocks attached to conversation messages and tool
results. This is **ambient data**: not user text, and not tool output
you requested. Each block is a snapshot at a moment in time; the **newest
`<market-watch>` entry in the conversation is the current price**, and any
earlier entry (including numbers in your own earlier statements) may be
stale.

## Reading rules

The rest: https://github.com/ginlix-ai/LangAlpha/blob/HEAD/plugins/langalpha_research/skills/market-watch/SKILL.md