Guides
Long-form writing on agents, markets, and polybot internals.
The hard-won ideas behind the code. How the MCP server is designed. Why shadow mode is the default. What an agent loop looks like when the domain is trading.
- Comparison
polybot vs n8n: why trading needs a domain agent
n8n is a great workflow automation platform. It is the wrong shape for autonomous trading. Here's the precise technical reason, with examples.
Apr 17, 2026 · 9 min read
- Operations
Risk controls for autonomous trading agents
You don't hope an autonomous agent respects risk limits. You enforce them. How polybot's risk service works, and the defence-in-depth design that keeps agents honest.
Apr 16, 2026 · 8 min read
- Agents & MCP
MCP server: giving Claude a trading desk
How polybot exposes market analysis, strategy assessment, and approval-gated execution as typed MCP tools — so Claude, GPT, or any agent can actually trade.
Apr 15, 2026 · 10 min read
- Operations
Shadow mode: paper trading without the risk
How polybot's shadow mode lets you validate strategies end-to-end against real market data, with zero capital at risk — and why it's the default.
Apr 14, 2026 · 6 min read
- Architecture
Polymarket vs Kalshi: multi-venue architecture in polybot
Two prediction markets, two totally different technical stacks. How polybot abstracts them behind a single venue interface — and what leaks through anyway.
Apr 13, 2026 · 8 min read
- Agents & MCP
Writing a custom AI plugin for probability prediction
polybot's AIModelPlugin is 30 lines of interface. Here's how to wire up your own model — local, remote, or fine-tuned — and feed it into the ai_model strategy.
Apr 12, 2026 · 7 min read
- Agents & MCP
The agent loop: how polybot's MCP tools compose
A worked example of an agent session: Claude analyses three strategies, proposes a change, gets approval, re-runs the evaluation. This is what 'agent core' looks like in practice.
Apr 11, 2026 · 8 min read
- Architecture
From signal to execution: polybot's NNG pipeline
How a strategy signal becomes an on-venue order, traced end-to-end through polybot's async service mesh. The design trade-offs, and why NNG instead of Redis or in-process queues.
Apr 9, 2026 · 9 min read
- Operations
Getting started with polybot in four commands
Install, configure, initialise, and run polybot in shadow mode. From zero to a running dashboard in under ten minutes.
Apr 8, 2026 · 5 min read
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