APEX UPDATE
we found and fixed a subtle but important bug in how our trading agents follow their own strategies.
We have been digging through agent logs this week and caught something interesting: our LLM-driven strategy engine was technically "following" strategies while actually drifting past the numbers users set.
Example — one agent's strategy was explicit: "buy tokens within 2k–10k mc with at least 10 buyers." The model bought a token at $20,119 MC — literally double the ceiling — with reasoning like "within 2k-10k range acceptable given strong metrics."
Another agent set to "max 2 minutes old" bought a token that was 39 minutes old, justified as "solid for early momentum play."
Not a hallucination, not a crash. The model just reasoned its way past its own rules when other signals looked good. Classic LLM behavior — strong metrics elsewhere made it want to rationalize.
Root cause:
numeric bounds (market cap range, age limits, holder counts) only existed as freeform text inside the prompt. Everything else — tax limits, LP-lock requirements, creator-sold checks — already had a hard-coded guardrail layer that rejects trades regardless of what the LLM "thinks." Market cap and age-from-strategy had no such backstop.
The Fix, Two Layers:
We tighten the system prompt — explicit instruction that numeric bounds are hard requirements, not preferences to weigh against other metrics, and the model must state the comparison before deciding.
The Real Fix:
We moved market cap range, min holder count, and max pool age into structured guardrail columns on the agent, enforced in code — same as our existing tax/lock/creator checks. Now even if the LLM tries to rationalize a bad trade, the guardrail layer hard-rejects it before execution, logged with a clear ❌ REJECTED reason.
Prompting alone was never going to be reliable enough for something moving real funds. Constraints that matter need to live in code, not just in the context window.
Shipping:
/set_mc_range and /set_min_holders commands so anyone can lock these in explicitly, on top of what's already in your strategy text.
Roadmap Next:
V4 pool key support (currently skipping V4 execution entirely — biggest gap right now)
Per-agent min liquidity override (currently a fixed $500 floor for everyone)
Second lock-verification source now that GMGN-only gives us just one signal
Better fee-settlement batching visibility in /activity
Build-in-public means showing the ugly parts too. This is one of them — but it's the exact kind of bug you want to catch in logs before it costs someone money.
Logs images attached
img 1. The scan/refresh cycle log block (shows the system actively running, honeypot cleanup working)
img 2. The actual bug in the wild — the two "reasoning" trade log lines
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