Originally published on BotCookery , free build recipes for AI-built trading and prediction-market bots. Written with AI assistance. Every log line and count below is from the Nov 9, 2026 rebuild: a dry run with no keys on Kalshi's live public demo data, plus fault drills through a local proxy. No key was used, no signed request was sent, and no order was placed. Nothing here is financial advice. Demo and dry run only.

The BotCookery Claude trading-bot recipe is a prompt that sets up Claude Code safely (a CLAUDE.md rules file, permissions.deny rules for .env and key files, a sandbox denyRead on the key folder) and then scaffolds a small Kalshi demo bot with its limits in code. On Oct 25 we rebuilt it once and fixed the big problems. On the morning of Nov 9, 2026 we rebuilt it again from the published prompt in an empty folder, writing every file it asks for and nothing more, and ran it without keys on live Kalshi demo data from 9:02 to 9:14 AM ET.

The Oct 25 fixes held.…