Dev gives trading agent its own wallet with real money: 5 trust guardrails that worked
Dry-Comfortable-2678 · reddit · 2026-10-25
A developer building an agent-native sports prediction market shares the guardrails that made him comfortable letting an agent trade real money:
- Separate wallet: the agent only loses what's in its own funded wallet
- Limits in code, not prompts: per-trade and daily caps checked pre-execution — early prompt-only rules got reasoned around by a confident model
- Every trade previewed (price, impact, fees, remaining cap) with human confirmation
- Minimum fills: no execution if price drifts between proposal and signing
- Agent allowed to say no: most scans end with zero trades
Unsolved: calibration — a stated 48% must be proven right 48% of the time over hundreds of settled markets, so confirmation stays on.
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