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Let's say I want to include the AO indicator as part of the criteria for my Pine script. How can a pine script access indicators? Can a strategy or study import a series generated by another Pine script or built-in indicators?

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You can't access indicators if they're not provided by built-in functions.
In your specific case of the Awesome Oscillator, you could calculate it yourself to get the series values.
See Awesome Oscillator (AO) for how it's calculated.

edit:
I just found out that it does seem to be possible if the desired indicator is on your chart.
See How can I use one script’s output as an input into another?

Screenshot of example with the Awesome Oscillator:

External Indicator

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    And if you were to use this `AO:AO` as a source, every time you make modifications to the code where Pine thinks it affected input arguments, it will reset it to `Close`. Also there is a Copy function on the right-click menu of your Indicators/Strategies. Now if you use another indicator as a source for your indicator, then this Copy function disappears. – karatedog Aug 11 '22 at 23:27
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While indicators does not offer reusability in the way you mentioned. But, new libraries will surely does.

Have a look at libraries and examples of some indicators using them.

https://www.tradingview.com/scripts/?script_type=libraries

Not sure if awesome oscillator is present as part of any library. Feel free to write one if you think it can be useful.

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