Setup

by marketcalls

Setup is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by marketcalls in vectorbt-backtesting-skills.

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Install Setup

Copy Setup into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/marketcalls/vectorbt-backtesting-skills/tree/master/.claude/skills/setup ~/.claude/skills/setup

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/marketcalls/vectorbt-backtesting-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/setup/SKILL.md in marketcalls/vectorbt-backtesting-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/setup
Collection: One of 6 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 973 skills

What Setup does

Setup sets up the Python backtesting environment for VectorBT and OpenAlgo. Use it to create a virtualenv, install dependencies, create the backtesting folder, and write a project .env file.

Setup is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Setup comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, backtesting, monte-carlo, optimization and python.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Set up the complete Python backtesting environment for VectorBT + OpenAlgo.

Arguments

$0 = Python version (optional, default: python3). Examples: python3.12, python3.13

Steps

Step 1: Detect Operating System

Run the following to detect the OS:

uname -s 2>/dev/null || echo "Windows"

Map the result:

Darwin = macOS
Linux = Linux
MINGW* or CYGWIN* or Windows = Windows

Print the detected OS to the user.

Step 2: Create Virtual Environment

Create a Python virtual environment in the current working directory:

macOS / Linux:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip

Windows:

python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate
pip install --upgrade pip

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Setup provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/backtest

Frequently asked about Setup

What else does marketcalls publish alongside Setup?
Setup is one of 6 skills that DirSkills catalogs from marketcalls/vectorbt-backtesting-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Optimize, Quick Stats and Strategy Compare. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Setup does, and is maintained by marketcalls in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the marketcalls/vectorbt-backtesting-skills page.
How does Setup compare to other DevOps skills?
Setup ranks #882 by stars among the 973 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Setup against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.