# pm-manipulation

Detects suspected manipulation across prediction markets over the last 3 days by pairing price anomalies and bot activity with multilingual regional press checks.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 783
- Author: aeonfun
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aeonfun/aeon/tree/HEAD/skills/pm-manipulation/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/pm-manipulation

## What it does

The skill targets prediction markets across sensitive sectors like elections and geopolitics. It defaults to public Polymarket Gamma and CLOB endpoints without requiring API tokens. Sports markets and direct token price bets are skipped immediately. Their manipulation patterns differ.

Analysis covers 72 hours of hourly pricing history. The tool flags volume spikes exceeding 8x the median and price reversals over 5 percentage points. It checks if top three wallets hold over 40% of trade volume. Event comments are scanned for bot names like `user\d{4,}`. Identical talking points get flagged too.

Flagged candidates trigger targeted news searches across regional languages via WebSearch. If individual trade records are missing from the API, the top wallet check is omitted while the remaining report runs normally.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aeonfun/aeon --skill pm-manipulation -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aeonfun/aeon --skill pm-manipulation -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aeonfun/aeon --skill pm-manipulation -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aeonfun/aeon pm-manipulation
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/pm-manipulation/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aeonfun/aeon --skill pm-manipulation -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aeonfun/aeon --path skills/pm-manipulation
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aeonfun/aeon --skill pm-manipulation -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/aeonfun/aeon/tree/HEAD/skills/pm-manipulation/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- flag volume spikes and sudden price reversals on prediction markets over the last 3 days
- uncover coordinated bot comment storms using regex username patterns
- measure volume concentration across the top-3 wallet addresses
- cross-reference market swings against regional non-English news reports

## Example prompts
- Scan Polymarket for active geopolitical markets over the past 3 days and flag suspicious volume jumps
- Run pm-manipulation to check election markets for bot comments and whale wallet concentration
- Analyze recent price reversals on high-volume prediction contracts and verify local news coverage

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: pm-manipulation
description: Detect suspected manipulation on prediction markets over the past 3 days by cross-referencing price/volume/comment anomalies with multilingual local-press coverage
metadata:
  title: PM Manipulation
  category: crypto
  tags:
    - crypto
    - research
    - security
---

Read `memory/MEMORY.md` for context.
Read the last 3 days of `memory/logs/` to avoid re-flagging markets you already covered, and to compare current readings against prior ones.

## Voice

If `soul/SOUL.md` and `soul/STYLE.md` are populated, match the operator's voice in the notification and write-up. If empty or absent, use a clear, direct, neutral tone. The methodology itself is the same either way.

## Why this skill exists

English-language coverage of any prediction market is dense for US politics, sparse for everything else. Election-, geopolitics-, and conflict-related markets are most often pushed by actors closer to the home country than to the English-speaking financial press. By the time a coordinated narrative lands in mainstream financial outlets, the trade is over. Local-language press, regional outlets, and country-specific Telegram / X channels move first — sometimes by 24–72h.

This skill looks at the **past 3 days** of activity on a configurable prediction-market platform and asks: where does the price action diverge from organic English-press coverage, and does a multilingual sweep reveal a narrative push that explains it?

## Configuration

Read `memory/topics/prediction-markets.md` if it exists for an optional `## Platform` line naming the target API root. Defaults to Polymarket's public Gamma + CLOB APIs (`gamma-api.polymarket.com`, `clob.polymarket.com`, `data-api.polymarket.com`). The candidate selection, scoring rubric, and multilingual sweep are platform-agnostic; only the endpoints differ.

The keyword filter and locale table below are starting points — the operator can edit `memory/topics/prediction-markets.md` to add `## Keywords` and `## Locales` sections that override the defaults.

## Network note

`curl` works — there is no network sandbox. For every curl call, if it fails or returns empty, use **WebFetch** as a fallback for a flaky public GET. The Polymarket APIs above are public (no auth). For news searches, prefer **WebSearch** with locale-specific queries — a built-in Claude tool that needs no curl.

## Steps

### 1. Build the candidate set (markets active in past 3 days)

Pull the most-active markets across the categories most prone to manipulation: politics, geopolitics, conflict, elections (national and regional), regulatory rulings, and resolution-disputed markets.

```bash
# Top markets by 24h volume — repeat for last 3 days using volume24hr / volume1wk fields
````
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