# trader-explain

Identifies key features behind LSTM and Transformer trading signals with PageRank and writes signed audit artifacts.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 510 installs · ★ 79357
- Author: ruvnet
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/tree/HEAD/plugins/ruflo-neural-trader/skills/trader-explain/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/trader-explain

## What it does

This skill explains trading model decisions using single-entry PageRank. It maps how features influence the output node. Inference data comes from the `trading-signals` namespace. Contribution scores are read via `npx neural-trader --predict --signal <signalId> --explain --json`. If that flag is missing, the process falls back to an input z-score calculation.

Calculations run via `mcp__ruflo-sublinear__page-rank-entry` or a local fallback in `signed-attribution.mjs`. After ranking top features, the tool signs the resulting `SignedAttributionArtifact` with Ed25519. It then stores the record in `trading-analysis`.

Without a valid witness private key, the record stays unsigned. Regulatory audits will reject unsigned artifacts.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ruvnet/ruflo --skill trader-explain -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ruvnet/ruflo --skill trader-explain -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ruvnet/ruflo --skill trader-explain -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install ruvnet/ruflo trader-explain
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ruvnet/ruflo --skill trader-explain -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo --path plugins/ruflo-neural-trader/skills/trader-explain
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ruvnet/ruflo --skill trader-explain -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/ruvnet/ruflo/tree/HEAD/plugins/ruflo-neural-trader/skills/trader-explain/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- rank input features driving LSTM and Transformer predictions
- generate Ed25519 signed attribution records for compliance audits
- save model explanations into persistent `trading-analysis` memory
- build feature contribution graphs using attention co-occurrence data

## Example prompts
- Explain trading signal sig-9482 using trader-explain
- trader-explain sig-401 --top-k 5 --seed 42
- Inspect signal sig-1082 drivers with trader-explain

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: trader-explain
description: Regulator-grade feature attribution for any LSTM/Transformer signal — single-entry PageRank ranks the top-K features that drove the prediction (ADR-126 Phase 6, ADR-123 single-entry PR)
allowed-tools: Bash Read mcp__plugin_ruflo-core_ruflo__memory_retrieve mcp__plugin_ruflo-core_ruflo__memory_store mcp__ruflo-sublinear__page-rank-entry
argument-hint: "<signalId> [--top-k 10] [--seed 42]"
---
Explain a trading signal by building a feature-contribution graph and running single-entry forward-push PageRank from the signal output node. Top-K ranked features are returned as a markdown table AND persisted to `trading-analysis` as a `SignedAttributionArtifact` (ADR-126 Phase 6).

**Why this skill matters:**
- EU AI Act + SEC Reg-AI guidance require interpretable model output for any algorithmic trading system that touches retail capital. This is the regulator-grade attribution path the rest of the substrate has been waiting for.
- The same call site picks up the full native-WASM PageRank from `mcp__ruflo-sublinear__page-rank-entry` once that tool is registered in the runtime — until then, the local power-iteration kernel ships in `signed-attribution.mjs` and produces the same ordering (seeded mulberry32).

Steps:

1. **Retrieve the signal** from the canonical `trading-signals` namespace (ADR-126 Phase 1 + Phase 2 lifecycle):
   ```text
   mcp__plugin_ruflo-core_ruflo__memory_retrieve({
     key: "SIGNAL_ID",
     namespace: "trading-signals"
   })
   ```
   The signal entry includes `modelId`, `prediction`, and the feature vector at the time of inference.

2. **Extract per-feature contribution scores** from the model:
   ```bash
   npx neural-trader --predict --signal "$SIGNAL_ID" --explain --json
   ```
   The expected output shape:
   ```ts
   {
     features: Array<{ name: string; contribution: number }>;
     // for Transformers, also includes per-head attention co-occurrence:
     attention?: Array<{ head: string; cooccur: Array<[number, number, number]> }>;
   }
   ```

   **Fallback path** — if `--explain` is not shipped on the installed `neural-trader` build (older versions; the flag was scoped for a follow-up upstream PR), the skill degrades to a deterministic feature-importance heuristic over the signal's input vector: `contribution_i = |input_i - μ_i| / σ_i` (z-score magnitude). This is a known proxy — not as faithful as attention/SHAP — and the resulting artifact is tagged `attribution_method: "input-zscore-fallback"` so downstream consumers can filter it out for regulator filings. Document the fallback path in the resulting markdown summary so the agent surfaces it to the user.

3. **Build the feature-contribution graph**:
   - **Nodes**: one node per feature + one source node `__signal_output__` for the prediction.
````
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