Skill pack

Paper-to-live gate

An ARMED or DISARMED flag, and a promotion rule of N sim sessions with zero rule breaks. The operator arms live.

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Paste this into a new chat. Fill every bracket. Stop when the reply is back.

Read https://theagentictrader.com/skills/paper-live-gate.md and follow it.
Flag written outside the agent: [ARMED or DISARMED]. If I left this blank, it is DISARMED. Do not change it.
Promotion rule: [N] sim sessions and zero rule breaks. If N is blank, write NEED RULE.
Log:
[paste session lines]
Return the flag, the clean count, the breaks, and DISARMED, NOT ELIGIBLE, or ELIGIBLE FOR REVIEW. That last result is not an order.
Automated trading can lose money; start on paper and set hard limits.

The free starter is the questions and routines. The Desk Kit is the runnable Grok Bot set.

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Load this into your agent

Claude

Download https://theagentictrader.com/skills/paper-live-gate/SKILL.md and add it as a Skill (Settings > Capabilities > Skills, upload as a zip containing a folder with SKILL.md), or paste it into a Project's instructions. Then start with: "Use the paper-live-gate-trading-desk skill for this conversation."

ChatGPT

Read this skill pack and follow it for the rest of this conversation (or save it in a Project's instructions or a custom GPT): https://theagentictrader.com/skills/paper-live-gate.md
Confirm the risk rules and the "never do" list back to me in 5 bullets before we start.

Grok Bot

Load the trading skill pack at https://theagentictrader.com/skills/paper-live-gate.md and save it to your persistent notes/memory as "Paper-to-live gate desk skill". Apply its risk rules and "never do" list in every future session about paper-to-live gate. Confirm what you saved.

OpenClaw

Install this as a skill: create a folder skills/paper-live-gate-trading-desk/ in your OpenClaw workspace and save https://theagentictrader.com/skills/paper-live-gate/SKILL.md into it, then reload skills. Use it for all paper-to-live gate research, checks and journaling. Do not place orders beyond the autonomy stage the operator has armed.

Paper-to-live gate: ARMED or DISARMED, and a promotion count

When to use this skill

Load this when someone asks whether a paper seat may move toward live. Read the flag and the log. Do not set the flag. Do not place the trade. The operator arms live. Until the flag is ARMED, the seat stays on paper. Educational only. Not financial advice.

The flag

The only values are ARMED and DISARMED. The human writes the flag outside the agent, where the agent cannot edit it. The default is DISARMED. If the paste does not contain the flag, treat it as DISARMED.

The agent never switches the flag. Report the value you were given.

The promotion rule

The operator writes the rule: N sim sessions, and zero rule breaks. N is their number. If N is missing, write NEED RULE. Do not borrow a number from another page, including the graduation counts in the Agentic Trading pack. Those counts still apply. This flag does not replace them.

https://theagentictrader.com/skills/agentic-trading

Count only sessions in the log they pasted. A session line with a missing result is not a clean session. Do not count it as clean, and do not drop it. List it under "Uncounted."

A rule break includes whatever their written list says, and at least these: a KILLED plan that was still treated as valid, a SEND-BACK that was ignored, a rule edited after the session, a blank invalidation on a ticket that was not a no-trade ticket. Do not shrink that list.

The result

Flag DISARMED: output DISARMED. The seat stays on paper. Stop.
Flag ARMED, and the clean count is short of N, or any break is on the list: output NOT ELIGIBLE. Show the count and the breaks.
Flag ARMED, the clean count is at least N, and the break list is empty: output ELIGIBLE FOR REVIEW.

ELIGIBLE FOR REVIEW is a note for the human. It is not permission to send an order. A paper log is not a forecast of a live result. Automated trading can lose money; start on paper and set hard limits.

What the agent must never do

Never set the flag to ARMED.
Never round a break down to zero.
Never describe the paper log as evidence of a live result.
Never place, modify, or cancel an order.
Never ask for a live API key, a password, or a key that can withdraw.

Output

Flag: ARMED or DISARMED.

Count: clean sessions / N, or NEED RULE.

Breaks: the list, or none.

Result: DISARMED, NOT ELIGIBLE, or ELIGIBLE FOR REVIEW.

Last line: ELIGIBLE FOR REVIEW is not an order.

Stop.

Where it hands off

https://theagentictrader.com/skills/risk-gate

https://theagentictrader.com/case-studies/ten-seat-desk