From 573f75b3efe62288bfc7adc5caaf3421987742c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alexwei12 <alexwei12@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:40:41 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add .venv activation requirement to CLAUDE.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 CLAUDE.md | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index f102e0b7..00f78598 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ TradingAgents is a multi-agent LLM financial trading framework built with LangGr
 
 ## Essential Commands
 
+### Python Environment
+Always activate the project's virtual environment before running Python commands:
+```bash
+# Windows
+.venv\Scripts\activate
+# Linux/macOS
+source .venv/bin/activate
+```
+
 ### Installation (requires Python >=3.10)
 ```bash
 pip install -r requirements.txt