strategy-pivot-designer

SKILL.md

Strategy Pivot Designer

Overview

Detect when a strategy's backtest iteration loop has stalled and propose structurally different strategy architectures. This skill acts as the feedback loop for the Edge pipeline (hint-extractor -> concept-synthesizer -> strategy-designer -> candidate-agent), breaking out of local optima by redesigning the strategy's skeleton rather than tweaking parameters.

When to Use

Backtest scores have plateaued despite multiple refinement iterations.

A strategy shows signs of overfitting (high in-sample, low robustness).

Transaction costs defeat the strategy's thin edge.

Tail risk or drawdown exceeds acceptable thresholds.

You want to explore fundamentally different strategy architectures for the same market hypothesis.

Prerequisites