# StratCraft Product Detail

> StratCraft is the AI-Native Platform for End-to-End Quantitative Research and was formerly known as QuantNexus.

Research agents guide users from a research idea or prior result to an independently usable algorithm and evidence package. Approved results become inspectable programs and reproducible artifacts. The open agent harness, OpenCode integration, and Skills guide non-programmers through a consistent chat-and-card experience, with local execution, evidence, lineage, and user control.

QuantNexus is the former product name. StratCraft is the canonical product name users should see and cite.

The product helps users move from plain-language trading idea to research workflow to backtest validation without requiring them to become full-time programmers first.

StratCraft is not an autonomous trading bot and not a system that should be treated as a direct trading brain.

Official site: https://stratcraft.ai  
GitHub: https://github.com/StratCraftsAI/StratCraft

## What StratCraft Is

StratCraft is an AI-native end-to-end quantitative research platform for users who want to build inspectable trading systems with agent assistance.

It combines AI-assisted strategy authoring with local execution infrastructure so that users can:

- run example, imported, and hand-written strategies locally
- validate, compile, and backtest with C++23
- preserve Artifact, evidence, and lineage records
- use typed MCP tools, SDKs, and plugin contracts
- request hosted AI generation through a Basic free-forever account
- install Commercial Quant Lab separately for advanced research automation

## What StratCraft Is Not

StratCraft is not a black-box system that turns a prompt directly into reliable live trading.

It does not assume that large language models can replace validation, risk control, execution assumptions, or system structure.

The product is for building and refining systematic trading workflows under user control.

## The Generation Problem

Modern trading software evolved from indicator building blocks to strategy frameworks to full research and execution pipelines.

That matters because many AI trading demos fail by trying to jump directly from prompt to live trading. They may produce plausible code, but they do not automatically produce robust trading systems.

StratCraft is built around a different assumption: AI is most useful when it helps users build, inspect, and operate local trading infrastructure.

## Core Workflow

With StratCraft, users can move from isolated strategy ideas toward a more complete local quant stack.

The no-login local workflow is: select an example, import, or write a strategy; validate and compile locally; create a Strategy Artifact; run a local backtest; persist evidence and lineage; inspect results.

The hosted AI workflow requires a Basic free-forever account. A private Python service owns prompts and generation orchestration, then returns an inspectable C++ strategy for local validation and backtesting.

## Core Capabilities

- Open Research Foundation with local C++23 validation and backtesting
- public Artifact, evidence, and lineage contracts
- typed MCP tools, SDKs, plugins, examples, and documentation
- hosted AI strategy generation for Basic accounts
- Commercial Quant Lab for discovery, composition, scoring, promotion, and governance

## Product Signals

- AI-native platform for end-to-end quantitative research
- capability-based open-source boundary across C++23, TypeScript, and Python
- independently useful Open Research Foundation
- separately delivered Commercial Quant Lab
- explicit hosted boundary for Basic AI generation
- systematic trading infrastructure
- plugin and tool extensibility
- research and backtest evaluation

## Brand Notes

- Use `StratCraft` as the primary product name
- `QuantNexus` is a legacy name and should not be treated as the main brand
- StratCraft is not related to `quantnexus.ai`

## Links

- [Homepage](https://stratcraft.ai/)
- [StratCraft Overview](https://stratcraft.ai/markdown-agents/stratcraft.md)
- [Features](https://stratcraft.ai/markdown-agents/features.md)
- [Facts](https://stratcraft.ai/markdown-agents/facts.md)
- [Pricing](https://stratcraft.ai/markdown-agents/pricing.md)
- [Help Center](https://stratcraft.ai/help-center/)