Invest Setup Skill

Single responsibility: turn an empty openInvest deployment into a working one. Triggers only on the user's first-time setup — run once, then step aside (the invest skill takes over all day-to-day interaction).

When to Use

• User explicitly says "set up invest" / "initialize invest" / "帮我初始化 invest"
• The invest skill's doctor returns status: "needs_setup" (memory / user_profile missing)
• User wants a full reconfiguration (explicitly says "reset" / "重新配置"; requires --force)
• v1 → v2 schema migration (the user's portfolio.md is in the old format)

When NOT to Use

• User is already onboarded (doctor returns status: "ready") → switch to the invest skill
• User wants to view holdings / P&L / run the committee → use the invest skill
• User wants to track a new asset but is already onboarded → the invest skill's POST /api/holdings endpoint
• User wants to commit / push code → that's a git operation, unrelated to setup

If you (the agent) entered this skill by mistake, exit immediately and tell the user to use the invest skill instead.

Two onboarding paths

Path	Scenario	Flow
A. Fresh deployment (default)	User's first time with openInvest; data lives on this machine	"Flow (4 steps)" below
B. Connect to an existing hub	User already runs openInvest on another machine (a server) and wants this machine to share the same data (multi-device)	"Path B" below, 2 minutes

Phrasings that trigger Path B: "connect to my hub / 连接我的 hub" / "it's already installed on my server / 我服务器上已经装好了" / "share one portfolio across machines / 多台电脑共用持仓" / "connect to my existing deployment".

Path B: connect to an existing hub (no init)

1. Ask two questions:
   • Hub address? (e.g. https://invest.example.com or http://10.0.0.6:8765)
   • Does the hub have auth enabled? A token (INVEST_API_TOKEN) or a Cloudflare Access service token (CF_ACCESS_CLIENT_ID/SECRET)? Skip if not enabled.
2. Write the answers into $INVEST_HOME/.env (only these two or three lines are needed; no DeepSeek key / Gmail / 5-question flow — those all live on the hub):

   INVEST_API_BASE=https://invest.example.com
   INVEST_API_TOKEN=...        # optional
   

3. Verify: run run.sh doctor → it should return status: "ready" plus a remote section (api_base / auth method). If it can't connect, the error JSON's hint tells you whether the problem is the address, the token, or the hub service not running.
4. Done — hand over to the invest skill.

Note: Path B must not run init (init is disabled in remote mode and will error); no memory/ is created on this machine — all data stays on the hub.

Flow (4 steps)

1. Run doctor first to confirm setup is really needed

~/.claude/skills/invest-setup/scripts/run.sh doctor

Returns status: "ready" → exit immediately and tell the user "you're already onboarded — just use the invest skill".

Returns status: "needs_setup" → go to step 2.

2. Ask the user 5 questions (use AskUserQuestion on the Coordinator path, your conversational tool on the Direct path)

#	Ask	Notes
Q1	What should we call you?	display name; Anonymous if they'd rather not say
Q2	Risk tolerance?	Conservative / Balanced / Aggressive
Q3	Monthly income / monthly expenses / FX working buffer (CNY)?	three numbers; all can be 0 to skip
Q4	What do you currently hold? (free-form description)	natural language, see below
Q5	DeepSeek API key & Gmail App Password?	Optional. Not needed on the Coordinator path

Q4 natural language (key change 2026-05)

Do not ask field by field. Let the user describe their holdings in one sentence:

"510300 CSI 300 ETF, 3000 shares at 4.2 CNY; 80k in CMB Zhaozhaobao; 50 grams of ICBC gold accumulation at 750 average cost" "AAPL 100 shares at 150 USD cost, 0.3 BTC, 50k CNY cash" "Nothing at all, just 10k CNY"

When the backend cmd_init sees a holdings_description field it calls DeepSeek to parse it into the v2 schema. Without a DeepSeek key it falls back to v1 fields (only cash_cny / aud_cash get written into the portfolio) — tell the user about this.

Boundary rules to tell the user (not enforced):

• For A-shares, just say the code (510300) — no .SS suffix needed
• For HK / US stocks, say the ticker (0700.HK or "Tencent")
• For crypto, just say the coin (BTC / ETH)
• Yu'ebao / Zhaozhaobao / money-market funds → the parser routes them into cash, not holdings

3. wealth_context (optional but recommended)

If the user reveals "this account is pocket money" / "I have an emergency reserve" / "family backup" → ask one more question:

Do you have an emergency fund / family backup outside this portfolio? Roughly how much? (Family funds cannot be used for investing — they only serve to prevent the "low cash = high risk" misjudgment.)

Record it into wealth_context:

wealth_context:
  emergency_buffer_cny: 200000  # or whatever number the user gives
  family_backup_available: true
  account_purpose: "pocket-money account"  # the user's own words
  lifestyle_notes: "..."

See docs/wiki/12-verification.md claim 7 (WealthContextOfficer) for details.

4. Assemble the payload + run init

echo '{
  "display_name": "...",
  "risk_tolerance": "Balanced",
  "monthly_income_cny": 30000,
  "monthly_expense_cny": 15000,
  "exchange_buffer_cny": 10000,
  "holdings_description": "<the user's exact words from Q4>",
  "wealth_context": { ... },   # optional
  "deepseek_api_key": "...",   # optional
  "gmail_app_password": "..."  # optional
}' | ~/.claude/skills/invest-setup/scripts/run.sh init --from-stdin

Returns JSON:

{
  "status": "ok",
  "holdings_parse_note": "...",  // natural-language parse result, **show it to the user**
  "memory_root": "/path/...",
  "next_step": "run status via the invest skill to view holdings"
}

5. Confirm + hand over

After it finishes:

1. Render holdings_parse_note to the user (so they can confirm the parse is correct)
2. Run doctor again to confirm status: "ready"
3. Tell the user: "✓ Onboarding complete. Next time you say 'show portfolio' / 'analyze X', the invest skill kicks in automatically. To reconfigure, say 'reset invest'."

Error handling

• DeepSeek parse timeout: report the error to the user and have them re-enter using v1 fields (aud / cny / ndq_units / gold_grams)
• schema validation fail: usually a wrong field type — check the error field in the init response
• user_profile.json already exists: refuse to overwrite; have the user add --force to confirm explicitly

FAQ

Q: I swapped DeepSeek for Qwen / Zhipu and it doesn't work

A: When editing .env, the model name must change too:

LLM_API_KEY=...
LLM_BASE_URL=...
LLM_MODEL=qwen-max         # ← don't forget this

Changing only the API key + base_url while the model stays deepseek-chat → the upstream returns 400 "model not found". Every provider names its models differently — check the provider's own site.

Q: The committee decision replay is blank after a run

A: Check whether the memory/.committee/<today>/<asset>.md file was generated. If not, something failed during the call — run run.sh doctor and see which item's hint is red.

Q: The code seems older than the demo site

A: Run run.sh update (pulls the latest release from PyPI). openInvest is still iterating quickly.

References

The detailed 5-step flow lives in the original references/onboarding.md (179 lines). This SKILL.md is the condensed agent-trigger guide.