Evidence-Gated Autonomous Options Agent

Aegis Alpha is an autonomous, paper-only options agent built for Alpaca. It identifies liquid trend opportunities using completed M1 entry signals confirmed by M5 market context, then constructs defined-risk vertical debit spreads. Every potential trade passes through independent gates: market-data completeness, trend and reversal checks, option-chain liquidity, quote freshness, account verification, position limits, daily-loss protection, and paper-endpoint enforcement. The agent uses Alpaca’s Trading API and CLI for paper account, market-data, option-chain, and operational checks. An event-driven Featherless AI verifier receives only a compact evidence packet when a valid candidate appears. It returns approve, reject, or abstain, but cannot create contracts, change quantity, bypass the risk engine, use a live endpoint, or access credentials. Strategies are researched separately by asset and trend direction with a chronological 70/30 held-out test. Results, AI verdicts, risk decisions, abstentions, orders, fills, and position events are written to a redacted audit log. The project makes no fabricated performance claims: underlying backtests are clearly separated from realised paper-options P&L.