# fixed-income-sovereign

Prices Treasury bonds, builds the yield curve, and works out duration, convexity and DV01. Useful when you need rate risk numbers instead of hand-waving.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 678 installs · ★ 218
- Author: JoelLewis
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/wealth-management/skills/fixed-income-sovereign/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-07-18
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/fixed-income-sovereign

## What it does

The skill covers US Treasury analytics: bond pricing from yield, yield to maturity, current yield, spot and forward rates, bootstrapping the spot curve from par yields, Macaulay and modified duration, DV01, convexity, TIPS and breakeven inflation, key rate duration. Formulas come with variable definitions, plus worked examples — pricing a 5-year 4% semi-annual bond at 5% YTM, and estimating the price move for a 50bp rate shift.

A script ships with it: `scripts/fixed_income_sovereign.py`, run through `uv run` with PEP 723 inline dependencies. The `--verify` flag checks the demo output against the worked examples and exits 1 on a mismatch. There is a pitfalls section too: mixing up Macaulay and modified duration, skipping convexity on large rate moves, day count conventions (Treasuries use actual/actual, corporates 30/360), clean versus dirty price with accrued interest.

Sovereign credit risk is out of scope. EM debt, default analysis and country risk spreads are not what this skill does — worth knowing before you point it at anything beyond Treasuries. It also cross-references `time-value-of-money`, `fixed-income-corporate`, `fixed-income-municipal` and `asset-allocation`, so without those installed some context stays missing.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill fixed-income-sovereign -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/fixed-income-sovereign/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/fixed-income-sovereign/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill fixed-income-sovereign -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/fixed-income-sovereign/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill fixed-income-sovereign -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/fixed-income-sovereign/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install JoelLewis/finance_skills fixed-income-sovereign
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/fixed-income-sovereign/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill fixed-income-sovereign -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills --path plugins/wealth-management/skills/fixed-income-sovereign
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/fixed-income-sovereign/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill fixed-income-sovereign -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/wealth-management/skills/fixed-income-sovereign/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- price a bond from a given yield
- bootstrap a spot curve out of par yields
- estimate a price move for a rate shift with a convexity correction
- compare nominal and TIPS real yields to get breakeven inflation
- break rate risk down by key rate duration

## Example prompts
- Price a 5-year Treasury with a 4% coupon and 5% yield, semi-annual payments
- Estimate the price change on a bond with 4.5-year Macaulay duration if rates rise 50bp
- Bootstrap the spot curve from par yields and give me forward rates between 2 and 5 years

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: fixed-income-sovereign
description: "Analyze US Treasury securities and interest rate risk: bond pricing, yield curve construction, duration, convexity, TIPS, and forward/spot rate analysis. Use when the user asks about Treasury bonds, yield curve construction, interest rate risk, duration, convexity, TIPS, or breakeven inflation rates. Also trigger when users mention 'T-bills', 'T-notes', 'bond pricing', 'yield to maturity', 'inverted yield curve', 'forward rates', 'spot rates', 'DV01', 'real yields', or ask how bonds react to interest rate changes."
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# Fixed Income — Sovereign

Scope: US Treasuries and rates analytics. Sovereign *credit* risk — emerging market debt, default analysis, country risk spreads — is out of scope for this skill.

## Core Concepts

### Bond Pricing
The price of a bond is the present value of its future cash flows:

P = sum(t=1 to n) [C / (1+y)^t] + F / (1+y)^n

where C = coupon payment per period, y = yield to maturity per period, F = face value, n = total number of periods. For semi-annual bonds, divide the annual coupon by 2 and the annual yield by 2, and double the number of years to get n.

### Yield to Maturity (YTM)
The discount rate y that solves the bond pricing equation — the single rate that equates the bond's market price to the present value of all future cash flows. Assumes reinvestment of coupons at the YTM rate. It is the standard yield measure for bonds.

### Current Yield
Current Yield = Annual Coupon / Price. A simple income measure that ignores capital gains/losses and the time value of money.

### Yield Curve: Spot Rates, Forward Rates, Par Curve
The spot curve gives zero-coupon yields for each maturity. The par curve gives coupon rates at which bonds would price at par. Forward rates are implied future rates derived from spot rates. The three curves contain equivalent information and can be derived from one another.

### Bootstrapping the Spot Curve
Extract spot (zero-coupon) rates from par yields by starting at the shortest maturity and working outward. Each step uses previously derived spot rates to solve for the next spot rate.

### Forward Rate
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