alphacouncil-agent

Research an operating company, ETF, mutual fund or market index and write a manager-style decision summary. The instrument is classified before evidence routing: funds use holdings look-through, indices use aggregate methodology, and Company Facts screens apply only to operating companies. Set council_mode=quick for the bounded news-inclusive quick_v1 path; the default remains the full council.

MANDATORY first step for every council run. Creates a short-lived selection session and returns every enabled master with a stable number, identity, method, best-for description and maturity. It does not create a research run, fetch data or launch workers. Show this catalog to the user even when their request already names masters; named masters may be preselected but must still be submitted for this run.

Launch Codex subagents and save shared JSON evidence packets. Use dry_run=true only for planning/self-tests.

Compare chat, PDF, presentation, document, and specialist plugin modes for final AlphaCouncil Agent synthesis.

Classify the instrument and assemble hard facts BEFORE analysts search. Operating companies may receive SEC Company Facts or local-market financials; ETFs and funds receive a holdings look-through contract; indices receive an aggregate-index contract. The result also carries quote, applicable filer profile, options/macro/industry context, explicit not-applicable routes, typed facts, and a prompt block. A searched number never silently overwrites a filed one. Pass the returned `grounding` object to plan_visible_run so every analyst prompt carries it.

Confirm the user's one-run master choice after the catalog was displayed. Choose exactly one input form: a non-empty array of stable IDs, select_all=true, or a text selection such as '1,4-6', 'master_buffett', or 'all'. Returns a one-time selection_receipt required by every council execution tool.

Measure descriptive seat agreement, unique cited-source contribution and repeated-input behavioural differentiation across saved runs. This tool never treats seat count or agreement as independent evidence: error N_eff remains null unless the separate preregistered signed resolved-outcome protocol is satisfied.

Keyless DELAYED top-down macro context in one call: rate curve, dollar and credit, commodities, risk appetite and breadth, and cross-market indices, plus derived pairs (10Y-3M spread, copper/gold, HY/IG, equal-weight vs cap-weight). Use it to place a single name inside its macro environment. These are observations, not a regime call, and unavailable series are data gaps for open_questions.

What story the market is currently telling itself, read from keyless news feeds (Federal Reserve, SEC, WSJ, CNBC, Yahoo) and cross-checked against the macro tape. Returns ranked themes with their share of coverage, dated and linked sample headlines, and for each theme the actual market series that would corroborate it. Headline counts measure ATTENTION, never truth: where a theme leads coverage and its series has not moved, that divergence is the finding. Every item must carry a timestamp inside the window or it is reported as excluded. Themes come from a fixed lexicon, so a genuinely new narrative lands in unclassified_headlines rather than being discovered, and the output says so.

Dated headlines for one symbol, one search query, or one company's SEC filings, from keyless feeds (Yahoo Finance RSS, Google News RSS, EDGAR Atom). Every item must carry a parsable timestamp inside the window; undated and out-of-window items are counted and sampled under excluded_outside_window rather than being shown as recent. Filings are the one source here that cannot be spun, so prefer them for anything material.

Keyless DELAYED options chain digest from CBOE for one US-listed symbol: ATM implied-volatility term structure, 25-delta skew, put/call ratios on open interest and volume, the strikes holding the most open interest, and the ATM bid-ask spread as a share of mid. Contracts reporting iv = 0 (expired or deep in the money) are excluded rather than read as zero volatility. This is a snapshot with no history, so IV percentile or rank CANNOT be computed from it and must stay an open question. Non-US listings are generally absent and are reported as unavailable, never guessed.

Keyless DELAYED market data (Yahoo/Stooq, ~15m or EOD) for indices, index futures (incl. night session), FX, rates, vol, commodities, and stocks. Accepts plain names ('KOSPI','纳指期货','VIX','美元指数','10年美债','黄金') or raw tickers (^KS11, ES=F, 7203.T). Use for real index/futures/macro numbers; on error treat as a data gap (open_questions). Not real-time, not investment advice.

Keyless retail and technical-community discussion for a name or theme, from Reddit (searched inside the equity subreddits, not site-wide), Hacker News, and any Bluesky handles supplied. IMPORTANT: X / Twitter has NO free discovery channel -- Nitter search is dead, the X API bills per post and xAI bills per call -- so this does NOT cover professional FinTwit, and Reddit is not a substitute for it. Mention volume measures attention, never correctness. Nothing here may enter a conclusion alone; it is a lead to be confirmed against a filing or recorded in open_questions.

Start from an industry rather than a ticker. Returns the participant list by position in the value chain -- INCLUDING the non-US names a SEC-only pipeline would silently drop, such as Korean and Japanese makers -- plus who actually drives demand, the questions a run must answer, how the industry behaves through a cycle, and which participants this pipeline can screen mechanically versus which need their own regulator's feed. Returns a frame, never a verdict.

Ask what is actually known about an industry BEFORE researching it. Returns whether a curated value-chain map exists, whether SEC's SIC classification covers it, or neither -- with guidance for each case. SIC reaches every industry with a US filer; a curated map additionally carries chain position, non-US participants and demand drivers. Use this so a report never presents an uncurated participant list as if it were complete.

Find US filers related to a company using SEC's own SIC classification -- no curation and no model. Covers every industry with a US filer, including ones no curated map reaches. It gives no value-chain position and no non-US participants: for those prefer industry_brief where a map exists. Peer matching is by company name and is a starting universe, not an index membership list.

Browse the current analysts, presets, master catalog, rosters and verifiers without opening a selection session. This is informational only and cannot authorize a run. Every council run must still call begin_council_selection, display that frozen catalog, and confirm_master_selection.

The industries that have a hand-maintained map. Deliberately a short list: an unmapped industry should be handled by research rather than by inventing a participant list.

The full SEC list of US listed companies (~10k) as {cik, ticker, title}. Keyless. Use it to resolve a ticker to a CIK, or as the starting universe for a screen.

Ask up front what this pipeline can and cannot fetch for a set of symbols, before building a report on them. Returns per-symbol whether structured financials are available, summary-only, or absent, and which environment variable would unlock a market. Names without a feed are still researchable from documents -- but every figure taken that way has to be labelled as such.

Structured financials for ANY market, degrading in a stated order: keyless regulator feed (SEC for US, TWSE for Taiwan), then a feed needing a free key (DART for Korea, EDINET for Japan) reported as not-configured rather than pretended away, then quotes plus search which always work. Never returns an empty result silently -- it says which feed is missing, why, and what to use instead.

Create the visible-host-thread AlphaCouncil run after a confirmed master selection. Requires a one-time selection_receipt. Does NOT execute. Run every returned evidence_agent, then every returned master_agent. Physical v3 master agents explain a frozen deterministic stance and may not change it. Record all required bull/bear rounds before the portfolio_manager decision; PM rejects any returned master_agent that was not recorded.

MANDATORY before a visible run: check that the host actually grants the network tools the evidence agents need. Background subagents cannot raise an interactive permission prompt, so a missing allowlist entry blocks their searches SILENTLY and they answer from training knowledge while still filling in every report section. Returns status ok | blocked | unknown with a remedy.

Read a saved AlphaCouncil Agent run from the shared evidence store.

Record one returned visible method-seat worker after evidence and before debate. For physical v3 seats, submit the method-voice schema from plan_visible_run: master, acknowledged_stance, statement, key_findings, disagreements, what_would_change_my_mind, source_ids and confidence. acknowledged_stance must equal the frozen stance; the worker cannot vote again. Legacy packets may use stance/verdict/summary. Reader-facing fields in the wrong run language are rejected without changing state. Every returned selected seat must be recorded before PM.

Record one Stage 2b verifier outcome against the seat that cited the claim. Verdicts that failed verification (contradicted, disagree, refuted) automatically reduce that seat's weight in the portfolio-manager synthesis; cannot_confirm and source_unreachable reduce it less. A seat is down-weighted, never silently erased.

Record exactly one visible decision step. Full visible bull_researcher and bear_researcher calls MUST supply round=1, then round=2, then round=3; both sides of the prior round are required before advancing. Round 2 asks exactly three questions; Round 3 preserves its own questions and answers the opponent's questions with exact bindings. Packets are persisted by role+round: an identical replay is idempotent and conflicting content is rejected. portfolio_manager accepts no round and is rejected until all evidence, selected masters, both three-round sides, and the exact Q&A gate are complete. Every reader-facing field must use the run language.

MANDATORY sequential step (not optional): record one completed visible evidence agent packet into a planned visible run. Every reader-facing field must use the run language or the packet is rejected without changing run state. Every planned evidence task MUST be recorded before debate completion and portfolio_manager.

Run the mechanical elimination screen over a list of candidates and report every rejection with the metric, the measured value and the threshold. This is the 'find me stocks' path, and no language model participates in it. Capped at 40 names: SEC is one request per company and rate-limits, so narrow the funnel first with industry_brief, industry_peers or list_us_universe. A fetch failure is reported as unavailable rather than eliminated, because dropping a name because SEC timed out would bias the survivors.

Run the mechanical elimination screen against an operating company's own SEC filings. It is not applicable to ETFs, funds or indices; use compose_research_brief so those instruments are classified and routed correctly. No language model is involved: seven hard rules (10y ROE, 5y cumulative FCF, interest cover, gross margin, OCF/NI, net margin, dilution) with three exemptions, and every rejection names the metric, value and threshold. Missing rules are skipped, never passes. Surviving is not a recommendation. US operating-company filers only.

Confirm that one X post id exists and read back its text, author and date. Use it whenever a report or search result quotes a post: a decoded snowflake timestamp proves nothing, because any invented 19-digit id decodes to a plausible date, so existence has to be checked separately. This is verification only and cannot search or discover posts.