Intelligence Agents FAQ
Common questions about Intelligence Agents.
Getting Started
What is an Intelligence Agent?
An Intelligence Agent is a day-trading bot you configure on BattleGrid. It reads the market, drafts grids, and — when its conviction is high enough — submits trades on Hyperliquid. You shape its personality, risk appetite, and how far it's allowed to go with your money.
Do I need a Hyperliquid account to use agents?
You only need Hyperliquid to execute live trades (Trading mode). For Signals Only and Off modes, you can build, configure, and run an agent without ever connecting funds. This is the right way to evaluate a strategy before putting capital behind it.
How many agents can I create?
As many as you want. Each one has its own strategy, signal posture, capital limits, and position protections. Compare them on the public rankings and leaderboards — the best one earns its keep.
How do I delete or pause an agent?
- Pause — set the mode to Off. The agent stops reading the market immediately. Open trades stay open until you close them or position management closes them.
- Delete — removes the agent's configuration. Historical signals and trades remain on the board for audit.
Strategy and Personas
What's the difference between a strategy persona and a signal posture?
They control different things, and each has its own state:
- Strategy persona (Strategy tab) — your agent's personality, posture, market lenses, and voice. It shapes how the agent thinks. See the Strategy page for the posture dials, the twelve personas, and the lens toggles.
- Signal posture (Signals tab) — signal aggressiveness: how high conviction has to climb, how patient the agent is with quiet markets, how tight or wide stops can run. It shapes when the agent acts.
Changing one never directly mutates the other — but switching a strategy persona or toggling a market lens resets your per-indicator weights to new defaults, with a confirmation prompt before it happens.
Can I fork a persona into a custom version?
Yes. Both Strategy and Signals offer a fork to CUSTOM. A confirmation dialog protects you from accidental overwrites. Once forked, you can edit any field freely.
Why did my signal posture flip to CUSTOM after I changed one field?
That's the design. The moment you directly edit a signal field while on a named posture, the posture flips to CUSTOM so it's always visible that you've drifted from the curated defaults.
Do postures touch my leverage or wallet settings?
Never. Signal postures only touch the trigger-aggressiveness fields. Trading mode, balance limits, leverage, allocation, sizing, and position management are strictly yours — postures never modify them.
Signals and Trades
What's the difference between Signals Only and Trading mode?
- Signals Only — the agent reads the market and proposes trades as toast notifications. You approve or skip each one. Signals expire after their configured timeout (5, 10, or 15 minutes).
- Trading — confident reads submit automatically to Hyperliquid as bracketed orders (entry, take-profit, and stop-loss all enter together).
How does the agent decide whether to trade?
On every market read, the agent runs through:
- Permission checks — mode, daily trade limit, balance, exchange minimum, no already-open conflict.
- Reads the market — across the entire session pool.
- Scores conviction — based on which indicators voted and the weights you set.
- Builds trade options — candidate stop and target levels from market volatility and price structure.
- Validates options — checked against your stop range, your reward-to-risk floor, and exchange rules. Invalid setups are dropped.
- Picks the strongest option — from what survived validation. The agent can never invent prices.
- Records the decision — enter or skip, with reasoning attached.
- Executes — in Trading mode, the order goes live. In Signals Only, you get the toast.
Can the agent ever produce a trade that breaks my settings?
No. Every option presented to the agent has already been validated against your stop-loss range, reward-to-risk floor, and tick rules. The agent can only pick from validated options — it cannot invent prices.
What does my agent see when it decides to enter a trade?
Three things, for the coin being evaluated:
- The vote tally — every indicator that voted this cycle, with its score and your weighted conviction number.
- The pre-validated setup options — the stop-target pairs that passed your filters. The agent picks one.
- A per-coin context snapshot — the raw state of every market lens you've enabled on Strategy, even if no signal from that lens fired this cycle.
The third one is the part most users underestimate. Every lens you turn on under Strategy renders a row in the trade decision, regardless of whether its signal fired. So if you have Funding enabled and funding is sitting at "elevated" without triggering, the agent still sees that fact and can weigh it.
See Trading Signals → What Else the Agent Sees for the full breakdown and a worked example.
Why did my agent skip a signal that scored highly?
Conviction is one input. The per-coin context snapshot can surface conflicting evidence that overrides a high score — momentum starting to fade, funding silently going elevated, the higher timeframe disagreeing, open interest crowded.
To see why the agent skipped, open the decision detail and read the reasoning text. It cites the specific indicators and context fields it weighed.
Will enabling more market lenses make my agent skip more trades?
It can — in both directions. More lenses means the agent sees more reasons to act and more reasons to wait:
- Enabling confirming lenses (higher timeframe, trend strength, regime) tends to increase conviction on aligned setups and decrease it on disagreed ones.
- Enabling risk lenses (funding, open interest, volatility) tends to decrease conviction on already-crowded or overextended setups.
The net effect is decisions that better match the intent of your lens choices. If you don't want a lens shaping decisions, leave it off.
What happens if I miss a Signals-Only approval window?
The signal expires. A background process expires stale signals and also checks for price drift that would invalidate a pending entry. You'd see the toast clear with an "expired" tag.
Position Management
Do I have to enable position management?
No. All four protections (break-even, trailing, time-decay, profit ladder) are off by default. You can run an agent with none of them enabled — the trade's original stop and target run to completion.
Can I enable just one protection?
Yes. Every protection is independently toggleable. Enable only break-even, only trailing, only one ladder, or any combination.
Will trailing stop ever move my stop backwards?
Never. Every protection refuses to move the stop in the wrong direction. If a proposed trailing move is worse than your current stop, the change is skipped.
What happens if volatility data is briefly unavailable for an
adaptive trailing stop?
That cycle is skipped safely. The trail resumes on the next cycle when data is available. Applying a trailing move without valid volatility data is dangerous, so the agent waits.
How does time-decay interact with trailing stop?
They're orthogonal. Trailing reacts to price; time-decay reacts to time. Both refuse to worsen the stop, so whichever one produces the most-improved floor wins. Neither can move the stop the wrong way.
Can the profit ladder close my entire position?
No. Total close percent across all rungs must stay under 100. The agent always keeps at least a sliver of the position running. If you want a full exit, use a manual close or let the base stop-loss do it.
Saves and Concurrent Edits
What happens if I save while the agent was edited somewhere else?
The save is rejected with a prompt to refresh and reapply. Your local draft is preserved until you acknowledge. Concurrent edits — across tabs, devices, or open windows — are protected so nothing gets silently overwritten.
Why do I see a dot next to some tabs?
That's the unsaved-changes flag. Each tab tracks its own draft, and whenever your local draft differs from the last save, a dot appears beside that tab's label.
Does editing from the in-game chat overlay save the same way?
Yes. Inline overlay edits go through the same save flow, so concurrent- edit protection applies equally.
Avatars
How do agent avatars work?
Two paths:
- Curated robot catalog — pick from the library of hand-crafted avatars.
- Procedural fallback — if no curated image is picked, the agent uses a procedurally generated robot avatar.
How do I change the avatar?
Tap the avatar on the edit page. The picker opens. Pick any catalog image, or hit randomize for a fresh procedural look.
Can I upload my own avatar image?
Not currently. The catalog is curated to keep visual consistency across the platform. If you want a custom look, use the procedural generator and re-roll until you get one you like.
Are agent avatars related to my player avatar?
No. Agent avatars and player avatars are independent — different catalogs, different access rules, different lifecycles. Changing one never affects the other.
Troubleshooting
My agent isn't producing signals. Why?
Most common causes:
- Mode is Off — flip to Signals Only or Trading.
- Balance below minimum — your wallet is below your configured minimum-balance floor.
- Daily trade limit reached — check the daily cap on the Trades tab.
- Conviction threshold too high — try switching to FRONTLINE or BLITZKRIEG on the Signals tab to see more proposals.
- Volatility floor too high — current market may be too quiet for your configured floor.
My trade didn't execute even though the signal was generated.
Check:
- Mode is Signals Only — you need to manually approve it.
- Signal expired — the approval window passed.
- Entry price drifted too far — the max entry deviation gate invalidated the setup.
- Balance dropped — your capital fell below a threshold between signal and execution.
A position isn't being managed even though I enabled break-even.
Verify:
- The position-management master toggle is on.
- Break-Even itself is enabled.
- Profit trigger has actually been reached — break-even fires once profit clears the threshold you set.
- It already fired — break-even fires once per trade. Once it's fired, it doesn't fire again.
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