# Research Goal

Goal-driven finance research workflow: attach a research-only objective, track...

- Repository: https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading (37375 stars)
- Category: Writing
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add HKUDS/Vibe-Trading --skill research-goal -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add HKUDS/Vibe-Trading --skill research-goal -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add HKUDS/Vibe-Trading --skill research-goal -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add HKUDS/Vibe-Trading --skill research-goal -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Goal-driven finance research workflow: attach a research-only objective, track criteria, and add evidence while avoiding live trading execution.

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

# Goal-Driven Finance Research

Use this skill when a user asks for a multi-step finance research task, comparison, audit, thesis review, or "keep working until the answer is supported." The goal runtime is for research only. Never use it to place, submit, or execute trades.

## When to Attach a Goal

Start a goal when the task has any of these traits:

- It needs multiple criteria before a conclusion is credible.
- It compares strategies, assets, regimes, or evidence sources.
- It may continue across turns or require a final audit.
- The user asks for "long driven task", "goal", "审计", "对比", "研究结论", or similar.

Do not start a goal for a tiny one-shot answer unless the user explicitly asks.

## Tool Flow

1. Call `start_research_goal` with a concise research-only objective.
2. Include 3-5 acceptance criteria when the user provided enough context.
3. Before continuing an existing task, call `get_research_goal`.
4. After a market-data lookup, backtest, document read, web source, or manual reasoning step, call `add_goal_evidence`.
5. Link evidence to a criterion using `criterion_id` or `criterion_index`.
6. If the objective wording needs tightening or correcting mid-research, call `update_research_goal` instead of starting a new goal; it edits the objective in place and keeps existing criteria and evidence.
7. When all required criteria have been audited, call `update_research_goal_status`.

## Criteria Template

Use this shape when the user did not provide criteria:

- Define the research-only thesis and symbol universe.
- Collect fresh market, benchmark, or artifact evidence.
- Compare alternatives or a control baseline.
- Record caveats, contradictions, and the non-advice boundary.

## Evidence Rules

The rest: https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/blob/HEAD/agent/src/skills/research-goal/SKILL.md