Quawd plugin

Research, backtest and validate rule-based trading strategies from your coding agent, through the hosted Quawd MCP server.

Quawd is a research and simulation service. It does not route live orders, custody funds, or provide personalized investment advice.

Install

grok plugin install quawd --trust

What you get

The Quawd MCP server (https://mcp.quawd.bot/mcp) — 65 tools covering research, strategy construction, and validation:

Area	Tools
Research	signal_scan, signal_compare — test whether a condition predicts forward returns before building anything
Construction	builder_* — create conditions, attach them to entry/exit/gate roles, compile
Simulation	run_backtest, get_backtest, explain_bar, get_condition_timeline
Validation	walk_forward, validate_on_holdout, assess_overfitting_risk
Portfolios	create_portfolio, builder_set_allocation, correlate_strategies

The server returns capability guidance on connect, so your agent learns what the engine refuses and what the dataset covers before it proposes anything.

One skill — teach — for explaining a strategy concept by mapping it onto what the platform can actually express and ending in something runnable, rather than giving a definition any model could give with Quawd disconnected.

We deliberately ship one skill rather than several. Candidates for the others were A/B tested against an uninstructed agent and turned out redundant: the tool descriptions already carry the workflow, and a skill restating them adds tokens without changing behaviour.

Example prompts

• "Does RSI below 30 actually predict anything on AAPL? Scan it before we build."
• "Build a trend-following strategy on SPY and tell me honestly whether it works."
• "What is a carry strategy, and can I express one here?"
• "My backtest shows Sharpe 1.4 — is that real?"
• "Compare these two strategies and tell me if they're correlated."

Authentication

OAuth 2.1 with PKCE (recommended), or a user API key as a bearer token for headless agents. Nothing is required at install time — you authenticate on first use.

• OAuth metadata: https://mcp.quawd.bot/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
• Scopes: read, write

Network endpoints

This plugin calls exactly one host: mcp.quawd.bot, over HTTPS. It ships no hooks, no scripts, no LSP servers, and no bundled binaries — the skill is Markdown and the MCP server is hosted.

What the engine does not do

Capability facts, not preferences:

• Equity and crypto spot only — no futures, perpetuals, leverage, or margin, and no position sizing above 100% of equity
• One position per sleeve; a market-neutral long/short pair is two strategies
• Universes are equal-weight and static. Portfolios are a different construct and do support member weights and trailing-return rotation

Equity and ETF 1-minute history starts in 2006; crypto USD composite in 2013.

Source

The skill is developed in Quawd's main repository and mirrored here. File issues at https://github.com/QuawdBot/plugins/issues.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.