"Circuit Breaker team on Alpaca AI Trading Agents Hackathon Hackathon"

Team Idea

An autonomous AI trading agent built on Alpaca's Trading API and official MCP server. Claude has direct, unmediated control. Claude monitors the market (SPY, QQQ, and other liquid S&P 500 names it selects itself), decides what to trade and when, executes defined-risk options spreads, and adjusts its own strategy based on results, all without human intervention once running. Claude has three, self chosen, hard-coded safety backstops it cannot override: - every position must be a genuine defined-risk spread (no naked legs) - the price paid can never exceed what the spread could possibly be worth - no single trade can risk more than 15% of account equity. In addition, Claude has an automatic shutdown if the account ever drops 15% in a day. It's currently live and running unattended on a $100k paper account, with the full decision trail logged for auditability. Building solo — not actively recruiting, but open to hearing from mentors or collaborators with ideas.

Team Members

Sean Runacres

irishkiwi007745

Submission

Circuit Breaker

A fully autonomous AI trading agent that monitors the market, decides, executes defined-risk options trades, and adjusts its own strategy, all with zero human intervention, built on Alpaca's MCP server.