I built an open-source AI agent that turns a trade idea into a full backtest — here's why

I've spent a fair amount of time in the world of quantitative finance tooling, and the same frustration kept coming up — getting from an investment idea to an actual tested strategy requires stitching together five different libraries, three data sources, and a lot of glue code that nobody talks about. Expensive platforms like Bloomberg or FactSet solve this, but they're locked behind paywalls that make no sense for indie researchers, students, or early-stage quant teams. The open-source alterna