# rl-execution

A skill that teaches an agent to split and time large orders so market impact stays low. Useful when order size is big relative to available liquidity.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 430 installs · ★ 443
- Author: agiprolabs
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/rl-execution/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-03
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/rl-execution

## What it does

The skill covers reinforcement learning for trade execution: the agent watches market state and decides what share of the remaining order to send each step. Instead of a fixed schedule like TWAP or VWAP, it adjusts the trading rate on the fly. State includes remaining quantity, time left, price, spread, volatility and volume; actions are fractions of the remainder: 0%, 10%, 25%, 50%, 100%.

Two references ship with it: `references/execution_algorithms.md` and `references/rl_framework.md`, covering TWAP, VWAP, Almgren-Chriss and the MDP setup. The scripts `scripts/execution_simulator.py` and `scripts/almgren_chriss.py` run under `python` and compare strategies in a simulated market. Price impact is modelled in two parts: temporary impact decays after the trade, permanent impact shifts the equilibrium price.

The skill lists its own limits. The simulator does not capture queue position, adversarial flow or MEV. Market microstructure shifts over time, so a policy trained in one regime can fail in another. On Solana execution happens at block granularity, roughly 400ms, not continuous time, and fees add cost. Training needs historical orderbook or trade data. For orders under 1% of daily volume the author points to a plain market order or the `slippage-modeling` skill instead.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --skill rl-execution -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --skill rl-execution -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --skill rl-execution -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills rl-execution
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --skill rl-execution -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --path skills/rl-execution
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --skill rl-execution -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/agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/rl-execution/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- split a large order so it does not move the price
- compare TWAP, VWAP and an adaptive policy by cost
- compute the Almgren-Chriss optimal trajectory
- estimate temporary and permanent price impact
- pick a trading rate that fits current volatility and volume

## Example prompts
- run `python scripts/execution_simulator.py` and tell me which strategy is cheaper
- compute the optimal execution trajectory with `python scripts/almgren_chriss.py`
- compare TWAP against the adaptive policy for a 100 SOL order in a thin pool

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: rl-execution
description: Reinforcement learning for trade execution optimization including order splitting, adaptive timing, and impact minimization
---

# RL Execution Optimization

Reinforcement learning (RL) for trade execution teaches an agent to split and
time large orders so that total market impact is minimized. Instead of following
a fixed schedule (TWAP, VWAP), an RL agent observes real-time market state and
adapts its trading rate on the fly.

## Why Execution Optimization Matters

Every trade has a cost beyond the quoted spread:

| Cost Component | Cause | Typical Magnitude |
|---|---|---|
| Spread cost | Crossing the bid-ask | 5-50 bps on DEXs |
| Temporary impact | Consuming liquidity | Scales with trade rate |
| Permanent impact | Information leakage | Scales with total size |
| Timing risk | Price drifts while waiting | Scales with volatility and time |

A 100 SOL market buy on a thin pool can move the price 2-5%. Splitting it into
ten 10 SOL slices over a few minutes can cut that cost by 30-60%. The question
is **how** to split optimally — and that is where execution algorithms and RL
come in.

## The RL Framework for Execution

### State Space

The agent observes at each decision step:

```
state = [
    remaining_qty,    # How much is left to trade (0-1 normalized)
    time_remaining,   # Fraction of allowed horizon remaining
    current_price,    # Current mid-price (normalized to arrival price)
    spread,           # Current bid-ask spread
    volatility,       # Recent realized volatility
    volume,           # Recent trading volume (normalized)
]
```

### Action Space

Discrete actions controlling how much to trade this step:

```
actions = [0%, 10%, 25%, 50%, 100%]  # of remaining quantity
```

A small action space keeps the problem tractable. Each action represents the
fraction of the remaining order to execute in the current time step.

### Reward Function

The reward penalizes execution cost relative to a benchmark:

```
reward = -(execution_price - arrival_price) * quantity_traded
```

Summed over all steps, the total reward equals the negative implementation
shortfall. The agent learns to minimize total cost.

### Episode Structure

One episode = one order from placement to completion:

1. Agent receives order: buy/sell Q units within T time steps
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