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

Team Idea

Sentinel Alpha: a Claude agent that reasons live on market context via Alpaca's MCP server, then trades options (single-leg and spreads) through a risk-gated execution layer — deterministic circuit breakers and cooldowns sit between the AI's decision and the actual order, not just a system prompt telling it to be careful. Solo-friendly, open to a teammate with options/trading or frontend experience.

Team Members

Nagendra Kondrapu

nagendra

Submission

Sentinel Gate

An autonomous Claude-powered options trading agent that reasons live over Alpaca market data through the official MCP server — every trade it wants to make has to pass code-enforced, defined-risk gates before it can touch the account.