Anthropic engineers Erik Schluntz and Barry Zhang figured out why some AI agents do what you ask and others don't. The answer is simpler than you think.
It's genuinely unreal...
They worked with dozens of teams building AI agents. The ones that worked best weren't using complex frameworks at all. Just 5 simple patterns, and many of them take a few lines of code.
Barry's own first rule: don't build agents for everything.
I turned all 5 into one prompt for Opus 5.5.
Send it to Opus 5.5 and thank me later.
The full prompt is below ↓
your Claude Code limit isn't small. it's leaking
every message re-sends your whole chat. on a 100k Opus chat: $0.02 from cache, $0.80 after one break
9 things break it without you noticing. here's each one and the copy-paste fix ↓ https://t.co/4t10bak3N2
I am begging you to do this before you paste any trading prompt into Grok Bot...
It won't make you a millionaire by morning.
But it helps you build a research desk that throws out bad strategies before they cost you a single cent, and keeps working while you sleep.
Save this before your timeline buries it:
i still don't understand why everyone is NOT testing trading ideas with Claude Code before risking a single dollar
it probably won't make you rich overnight. but it will stop you from trading strategies that never worked in the first place...
i wrote a 4-page research paper on exactly how to make Claude Code research, backtest and paper trade strategies from scratch
simply paste this paper into Claude Code, it will set up a team of agents that test every idea on historical data and kill the ones that don't survive
the crazy part: in one study, 97% of people who day traded for more than 300 days lost money. this system is built to show you which side you're on before it costs you anything