"Gate Zero team on Alpaca AI Trading Agents Hackathon Hackathon"

Team Idea

Solo builder working on Gatekeeper — an autonomous options trading agent where the model never holds the risk limits. Claude proposes a defined-risk spread; 14 deterministic Python gates decide whether it may exist.

Team Members

Matthew Chung

matthewchung74

Submission

Gatekeeper: the model proposes, code disposes

An autonomous options trading agent on Alpaca where Claude proposes every trade and 14 deterministic Python gates decide whether it is allowed to execute. The risk limits live in code the model cannot reach, not in the prompt.