agent_panel.verdict_source defaults to "macro": the macro take's stance is the
verdict, the synthesizer call is skipped (4 LLM calls per panel instead of 5);
"chair" restores the four-voice consensus + OPPOSE guard. Verdict source is
cached per mode and logged (panel_verdict_source). 406 tests.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FC4s6VCURFte4dub4xKxYL
Prompt-only change (static constants; plain-language output contract
byte-identical). Ported from virattt/ai-hedge-fund's persona rubric:
- _TAKE_CONTRACT hard rules: reason only from the JSON given, never
invent numbers/events/levels; thin or missing evidence -> neutral
with confidence below 30 (deferring to role-specific rules).
- Anchored confidence bands in the contract and synthesizer, replacing
the unanchored "how sure you are".
- Per-stance support/oppose/neutral criteria for macro, technical, and
risk (risk's missing-setup->oppose folded into its oppose bullet).
- One plain-language support example beside each oppose example for
macro/technical/risk, fixing the all-oppose few-shot bias.
Contrarian's designed skeptic tilt untouched.
News-engine prompts untouched (pinned by 78/78 + 18/18 validations).
374 tests green; real-DeepSeek smoke: macro correctly answered
neutral/20 on empty news context, confidences spread 20-60 across the
bands, all notes <=25 words, no jargon.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TyZx9iRJwfbPTPnCBqcwTR
Owner request: panel notes and rationale must read like plain everyday
English for a non-trader. Style rule added to the shared take contract
and synthesizer prompt, all few-shot examples rewritten in the target
voice (examples carry the style), and the Telegram votes line now spells
out full stances ("macro: support") instead of "macro:sup".
Before: "BUY against Bollinger SELL and price above upper band; 4h
neutral, mixed MTF" → After: "The price is above its usual range, and
the bigger picture is not clearly rising, so buying now is risky."
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SisdfkxnXNL9iZsXxN3T15
ai-hedge-fund-style panel: 4 DeepSeek personas (macro, technical, risk,
contrarian) review a finished SignalReport concurrently on a
panel-private thread pool, then a synthesizer chair issues
AGREE/NEUTRAL/OPPOSE + confidence + rationale. Advisory/display-only by
construction: consumers attach post-hoc via attach_panel; the fields
live on SignalReport with empty defaults and analyze_from_dataframes
never touches them (backtest parity, locked by test).
Spend control on top of the shared 500/day client cap: max_panels_per_day
UTC budget (default 20), exact per-bar result cache, and a reuse TTL
keyed (symbol, tf, direction) so a persisting signal re-serves its
verdict across bars instead of burning 5 requests per bar. <2 valid
takes skips the synthesizer; any failure degrades to no panel.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SisdfkxnXNL9iZsXxN3T15
Harwinder Sekhon