Research-first quant infrastructure focused on validation, provenance, risk gates, and fail-closed trading safety.

• Research platform: multi-asset allocation, options volatility, intraday alpha, VaR/CVaR, execution costs, provenance labeling, and self-contained HTML reports.
• Validation harness: chronological out-of-sample testing that separates command success from research success.
• Safety lab: synthetic fail-closed signal intake, paper evidence ledgers, provenance gates, and explicit research/paper/real-money boundaries.

• institutional-quant-platform - institutional-style quant research stack with risk, options, allocation, provenance, tests, and HTML reporting. README · sample report · test output · CI badge

• walk-forward-validation-harness - synthetic-data validation harness showing how strict gates reject weak signals. README · sample report · test output · CI badge

• trading-safety-lab - synthetic fail-closed safety gate demo for paper/sim research infrastructure. README · sample report · test output · CI badge

• Reviewer proof pack: one-page audit map and resume bullets.
• Failure as a feature: walk-forward-validation-harness intentionally returns research_verdict: FAIL to prove weak signals are rejected.
• Fail-closed safety: trading-safety-lab intentionally returns safety verdict BLOCK while the demo command exits successfully.
• Provenance labels: institutional-quant-platform labels synthetic fallback data and source stamps instead of implying a live track record.
• Survivorship honesty: institutional-quant-platform documents fixed current-universe limitations instead of claiming delisted-asset coverage.
• Risk gates: validation, cost stress, concentration checks, and paper/live boundaries are treated as product surfaces, not footnotes.

This is not a profit claim, not investment advice, and not a live trading bot. The work is research infrastructure: paper/sim first, no broker execution path, no hidden track record, no survivorship-free alpha claim, and no capital deployment without explicit gates and evidence.