"Vetoed team on Alpaca AI Trading Agents Hackathon Hackathon"

Team Idea

An autonomous options agent where the AI is the least-trusted component. Claude selects from a pre-screened shortlist, but deterministic risk gates it cannot influence decide what is allowed and how large — and can veto it entirely. Every decision, including every rejection, is logged and auditable.

Team Members

Chong Mun Hei

bryan03

Karen Guang

qiao

Submission

Vetoed - an agent most useful when it says no

An options agent where the AI is the least-trusted component. It measures ~1,500 credit spreads a cycle and rejects almost all of them; the model only picks from what survives, and deterministic gates size it and can veto it. Alpaca paper, via MCP.