CLI Trading Glossary
CLI Trading has its own vocabulary spanning AI agent architecture, command-line tools, financial markets, and options theory. This glossary defines the terms you'll encounter across this site and the broader CLI Trader community.
A
- Agentic Trading 3 related terms
- A trading approach where AI agents participate in research, analysis, and execution workflows through tools such as CLIs, MCP servers, and Skills, while humans define constraints and approve risk.
C
- CLI (Command Line Interface) 3 related terms
- A text-based interface where programs are run through terminal commands. In AI trading workflows, CLIs are the broadest tool interface because any shell-capable agent can execute them.
- CLI Trader 4 related terms
- A trader who uses AI agents with command-line tools, MCP servers, and reusable skills to run research and execution workflows from a terminal-first operating model.
M
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) 3 related terms
- An open protocol for connecting AI agents to external tools through typed function calls and structured responses. In trading workflows, MCP is often used for higher-reliability account and execution operations.
S
- Skill (Claude Code) 3 related terms
- A reusable instruction module (often a SKILL.md file) that gives an AI agent domain-specific methods, checklists, and decision frameworks. Skills improve reasoning quality but do not execute actions by themselves.
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