"Aegis risk control team on Alpaca AI Trading Agents Hackathon Hackathon"

Team Idea

Aegis - an autonomous options income agent that treats the human as part of the risk model. It runs the wheel (cash-secured puts, assignment, covered calls) on Alpaca paper. An LLM supplies judgement, deterministic code supplies arithmetic. The safety model is an asymmetry: the model reaches the market through 38 read-only MCP tools and has no place-order tool at all. It picks the symbol and strategy; code picks the contract, the size, and whether it's allowed. Every order clears a guard pipeline - breaker, margin, liquidity, earnings, pre-commitment - and stores the rationale behind it. The unusual part is a behavioural firewall: pre-commitment contracts you write while calm, enforced when you aren't, each priced in what that pattern has cost you. Friction, never a block - it stays your account. Live on paper: 442 tests, a filled CSP, guards refusing real trades on real liquidity. Need: a front-end collaborator, and an options trader to argue with my strike and roll logic.

Team Members

Bharat Yadav

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Submission

Submission draft in progress