None of these touch the signal path. The 12-month M15 book
(2024-03-31..2025-03-30, $0.65, cached Oanda bars) is byte-identical
before and after (md5 c59d3e7e685c3c880b614640adfea74b, 375 trades),
and signal/indicator logging to logs/signals.db is unchanged — verified
end to end: per-TF indicators for all 3 TFs, 14 candles each, MTF and
reasons all still persisted.
agent_panel: the >=2-take quorum guards the CHAIR's synthesizer spend,
but ran BEFORE the macro branch — so the shipped default
(verdict_source="macro", which never calls the synthesizer) silently
dropped a good macro verdict whenever the other three personas were
slow. Quorum moved below the macro path.
analyze_signal_log: _forward_return clamped to the last available bar
when the horizon had not elapsed, reporting a near-zero "forward move"
for every row logged within `hours` of the end of the data — on every
run, blended into the hit-rate/mean-move aggregate. Now returns None.
analyze_signal_log: persona_scorecard iterated raw rows through an index
that maps EVERY member row of an event, so a re-logged scan appended
the same event R twice. One vote per event, matching
news_outcome_buckets. Measured inflation on the live DB: 1.03x.
signal_log: dedup required a non-negative logged_at gap, but logged_at is
stamped before the row wins the write lock (busy_timeout 5 s), so two
processes logging one setup at a boundary can invert timestamp order
against id order and seed a second event. Now abs(gap); same in
backfill_seeds. Zero occurrences in the current 366 setup rows.
advisory_outcome: the catch-all turned real evaluator faults into the
same UNRESOLVABLE used for legitimate weekend gaps, with nothing in the
log. Still fail-safe, now logged.
llm_client: only the "cap" warn-once flag was ever reset, so in a daemon
the second and every later network/http/parse outage logged at DEBUG
only. Cleared on UTC-day roll and re-armed by a recovered call.
dashboard.js: renderCards() redraws the selector for every timeframe but
was gated on the SELECTED one changing, leaving the other buttons stale
(up to 4 h on H4) while renderHero's rail already showed the new value.
news_summary.php: atomic_write treated a short write (disk full) as
success, publishing a truncated body the cache-first branch then served
forever; and the daily cap was charged before the no-key check and
before the stampede lock re-checked the cache, so a click burst could
exhaust the 150/day budget with zero LLM calls.
migrate_signal_log_news: logged_at is ISO with 'T' while SQLite's
datetime() uses a space, so string-comparing them put the whole cutoff
calendar day on the wrong side and it never pruned. NOTE: this now
deletes one day more than before — it only runs when invoked by hand.
Tests 414 -> 422 (new Module 28, one per fix). The existing
"<2 valid takes" test was retargeted at the chair — the case it actually
protects — rather than deleted, with new coverage for macro-alone.
Not fixed, recorded for the owner:
- Gate 6c's boost condition is textually identical to the C-grade
definition, so every C in a "transitioning" regime is promoted to B
before gate 6e reads it, making sell_min_quality's exclusion of "C" a
no-op on M15/H4 (H1 and M5 are immune by other means). The backtester
runs the same code, so every pinned book already includes this —
changing it is a rule-1 revalidation event.
- Safe-haven/geopolitical headlines score exactly 0.00 in the keyword
fallback and are now dropped entirely by the ±0.1 neutral filter,
contradicting the platform's own gold doctrine. Bites only when
DeepSeek is capped/disabled/failing.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ah5EB1goi5inQmSd37Ne6a
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