# 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

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Source: The Agentic Trader (https://theagentictrader.com/skills/paper-live-gate). Last verified 2026-10-16. Educational only. Not financial advice.

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