Monitoring your agent

Once the agent is live, your job changes from picking a strategy to watching it run. Engine is built so this is mostly passive: the agent runs continuously and the dashboard is designed to be glanceable.

The decision log is the heart

Below the dashboard is a live stream of every read, evaluation, and order the agent makes, in plain English:

09:14:22  agent.decide  LONG ETH-PERP · 1.220 ETH @ market · stop $3,720
09:14:25  agent.trade   fill 0.420 ETH @ $3,847.10 · slip 0.02%
09:14:55  agent.scan    HYPE-PERP · OI built +$2.1M · partial match

Scroll back through the whole history. Filter by phase or market. Every entry that produced a trade is linked to the rule it matched in your strategy.

If the agent is doing something you don't understand, the answer is in here.

Ask the agent why

When a trade surprises you, click into it and select Ask why. The agent gives you a paragraph: what it saw, which rule matched, why it sized that way, and what pushed it from "maybe" to "yes." Follow up in chat ("what would change your mind on this?", "show me the funding chart you used") and get answers grounded in the same data it acted on.

Read the why on three or four trades a week and you'll build an intuition for your strategy that no backtest gives you.

Pause when you need to

Two pause modes, both one click, both reversible. Pause new entries stops the agent from opening positions but keeps it managing existing ones (trailing stops, take-profits). Full pause freezes everything. Open positions stay where they are for you to handle.

Alerts cover the moments that matter: a stop hits, the daily loss cap fires, a market gets halted, NAV drops below a threshold you set. Configure them in settings. Defaults are conservative.

What "normal" looks like

A healthy agent week, on a typical strategy:

• Several signals a day, most filtered out, a handful resulting in trades.
• Multiple small wins and losses; net P&L drifting in the direction the strategy is designed for.
• The decision log is busy; the actions feed is quieter.
• A regime gate firing roughly once a week. Daily loss cap firing roughly once a month.

If your agent is significantly busier than this (every signal becomes a trade, daily loss cap firing weekly), your strategy is probably too loose. If it's significantly quieter (no trades for days), your universe might be too narrow, your rule too strict, or the regime is one your strategy chose to sit out.

Pause vs. revoke

Pause is the everyday tool. Revoke is the "I want the agent off this account, today" tool. See Your funds, your control. Pause when you don't trust the market for a few hours. Revoke when you don't trust the strategy at all.