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Circuit Breakers

Circuit breakers are automatic safety mechanisms that pause, constrain, or halt activity when predefined risk conditions are met. The external docs describe the types of controls TradeOS uses, not the exact thresholds, timers, internal flags, local paths, or recovery commands.

Data Freshness Breakers​

If required market or evidence inputs become stale, dependent workflows should stop acting on them. This protects both execution workflows and public-intelligence drafts from using outdated information.

Portfolio and Drawdown Breakers​

If portfolio risk exceeds the configured deployment policy, the system can block new exposure or require operator review. Existing positions continue to be managed according to the active safety policy.

Infrastructure Health Breakers​

If a critical dependency is degraded or unreachable, affected workflows should fail closed. For execution paths, that means no new orders should be approved. For public-intelligence paths, that means drafts should not invent replacement evidence.

Market Stress Breakers​

Abnormal microstructure, liquidity, or volatility conditions can cause TradeOS to become more selective. The public principle is simple: when market quality gets worse, the system should reduce confidence in marginal setups.

Manual Controls​

Authorized operators can pause execution-related activity, pause public-intelligence publication, or force review when something looks wrong. Manual controls are part of the safety model, not an afterthought.

What Is Not Published​

The public docs do not disclose:

  • exact breaker thresholds;
  • retry intervals or timeout values;
  • internal state names;
  • local file paths or environment file names;
  • service-specific recovery commands;
  • private operational runbooks.

This keeps the public documentation useful for trust review without exposing the system's proprietary calibration surface.