cilipep/ai-agent-with-tslab/strategy-brainstorming

Strategy Brainstorming

Use this phase before strategy-intake or strategy-design when the request is still exploratory.

This skill is the strategy-specific replacement for generic brainstorming when the task is TSLab strategy work. It exists to prevent generic product-design heuristics from outranking trading semantics and trader-facing chart discipline.

Goal

Turn a rough strategy idea into a trading-specific pre-design agreement.

Must Clarify

Clarify or record:

• what the strategy is trying to exploit;
• whether the user wants a prototype, verified baseline, delivery-clean artifact, or live-trading-ready candidate;
• whether stops exist in the source idea at all;
• if stops exist, what the exact stop source and update rule are;
• whether stop logic may use Close, current bar values, previous bar values, or only entry-anchored logic;
• whether entry and exit semantics are direct price-level semantics or bar-condition semantics such as Close > level, Close < level, High > level, or Low < level;
• whether stop logic may loosen risk;
• whether auxiliary indicators are allowed in stop logic;
• which series must be visible to the trader;
• which of those visible series belong on the price pane versus a separate indicator pane;
• whether any helper or diagnostic visualization is allowed to survive into the final artifact.

Hard Rules

• If the user specified exact stop semantics, preserve them. Do not let "built-in blocks first" override the stop contract.
• If the user specified direct price-trigger semantics, do not wrap them in a redundant boolean formula. If the user specified bar-condition semantics such as Close > level or Close < level, preserve that explicitly instead of silently converting it to a pure price-trigger block.
• If the user did not ask for a stop-loss, do not silently introduce one as core strategy logic.
• If an engineering stop is proposed for baseline safety, present it as optional and explicitly switchable.
• If a series is price-scale, plan to keep it on the main price pane unless there is a strong explicit reason not to.
• If a series is dimensionless, normalized, oscillator-based, or threshold-only, do not leak it onto the price pane.

Output Contract

End this phase with a concise strategy-specific brainstorming summary that states:

• target artifact state;
• stop contract status;
• allowed implementation freedoms;
• pane and plotted-series expectations;
• what must be preserved exactly from the source idea.

Then move to strategy-intake or strategy-design.