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Dev tools · March 13, 2026

VibeTrade – Trading Harness for Claude

Post-Opus 4.6, LLMs feel much better at using bash, code, local files, and tools. So I kept coming back to a simple question: if a model can use a computer reasonably well, why can’t I just give it my broker account, a strategy, and let it trade? My conclusion is that the blocker is not model capability in the abstract. It is the system around the model. A raw LLM breaks on a few practical things almost immediately: • no persistent operating memory across sessions • no trustworthy record of what it did and why • no hard approval boundary before money moves • no cheap always-on monitoring if…

VibeTrade – Trading Harness for Claude launched on March 13, 2026 with 7 votes, #1,458 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

VibeTrade is an open-source harness that gives LLMs everything they need to trade Indian markets autonomously. Six primitives: live market tooling (20 tools, Dhan broker), a heartbeat that monitors every 30s without running an LLM, triggers (code, time, event, or fuzzy), strategy playbooks that persist across sessions, an immutable trade journal, and a permission gate that ensures no money moves without your explicit consent. Describe a thesis in English. The agent handles the rest.

Contribute to vibetrade-ai/vibe-trade development by creating an account on GitHub.

Vibe Trade is a local AI trading agent powered by Claude. Describe your strategy in plain English — the agent writes the Playbook, builds the automation stack, monitors the market around the clock, and comes to you with a reasoned case before touching your account. Ask the agent anything. It has 20 built-in tools and a live broker connection. It fetches real prices, reads your open positions, pulls candles and indicators, and scans the news — then answers like a portfolio manager who's been watching all morning. you: what's the weakest position right now? agent: ONGC SHORT is the most at risk. RSI has climbed to 56 — short momentum is fading. You're at −1.02% with the hard SL only ₹1.29…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Post-Opus 4.6, LLMs feel much better at using bash, code, local files, and tools. So I kept coming back to a simple question: if a model can use a computer reasonably well, why can’t I just give it my broker account, a strategy, and let it trade? My conclusion is that the blocker is not model capability in the…

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