Add Alpha Skills — quantitative factor research skills

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Adding Alpha Skills — a set of 7 AI skills for quantitative factor research.

Works as Cursor rules files. Skills include factor discovery, evaluation (IC/ICIR/quintile), automated mining, backtesting, monitoring, and reporting. Supports A-share, HK, and US markets. All self-contained, no external dependencies.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added a new "Alpha Skills" entry describing quantitative factor research capabilities in the README.
  • Documented a new set of Alpha Skills for quantitative factor research (discovery, evaluation, mining, library, backtesting, monitoring, reporting) and noted supported market coverage and adaptation for different markets.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Added a new Cursor rules file defining "Alpha Skills — Quantitative Factor Research" and a single README entry under "Other" linking to ./rules/alpha-skills-quant-factor-research/.cursorrules.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Documentation README.md	Added a new bullet under "Other" linking to ./rules/alpha-skills-quant-factor-research/.cursorrules, describing quantitative factor research skills for Cursor.
Cursor Rules rules/alpha-skills-quant-factor-research/.cursorrules	Added a new rules file declaring a "senior quantitative researcher" role, enumerating skills (alpha-discover, alpha-evaluate, alpha-mine, alpha-library, alpha-backtest, alpha-monitor, alpha-report) with example prompts, a pointer to full implementations, and market coverage notes (A-share, HK, US).

Estimated code review effort

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• PatrickJS

Poem

I hopped through docs with nimble paws,
A rule and link to share because—
New alpha skills now tucked inside,
Backtests, mines, and factors wide. 🐇✨

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Title check	✅ Passed	The PR title clearly and accurately summarizes the main change: adding Alpha Skills for quantitative factor research, which matches the file additions (README entry and .cursorrules file) and PR objectives.
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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

Inline comments:
In `@README.md`:
- Line 270: Replace the absolute GitHub URL for "Alpha Skills" with a relative
repository path per README guidelines: update the link text "Alpha Skills" to
point to the local rule directory (for example
./rules/alpha-skills/.cursorrules) and create that directory/file if it doesn't
exist, ensuring the README uses a relative link instead of
https://github.com/VernonOY/alpha-skills.

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