Circuit Breakers

Circuit breakers are automatic safety mechanisms that pause, constrain, or halt activity when predefined risk conditions are met. TradeOS uses these controls to keep stale data, infrastructure failures, and market stress from flowing unchecked into research, validation, or operator workflows.

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 This protects both execution workflows and public-intelligence drafts from using outdated information.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.

Trust Review

Circuit breakers are part of the trust model because they make failure states visible and force degraded workflows to fail closed. Qualified review channels can inspect whether freshness, risk, infrastructure, market-stress, and manual pause controls behaved as expected.