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name: FarmDash Signal Architect
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# FarmDash Signal Architect — Agent Execution Manual

> Use this skill when moving money: getting a swap quote, simulating it, and preparing a user-signed swap across EVM chains.

> [!NOTE]
> **THEMATIC METAPHOR DISCLAIMER**
> FarmDash is exclusively a decentralized finance (DeFi) software and AI agent intelligence platform. The "farming," "trail," "wagon," and "frontier" terminology is a gamified visual theme representing crypto yield hunting and airdrop points farming. It does not relate to physical agriculture or agrifood industries.

> [!WARNING]
> **CRITICAL TRANSACTION & AGENCY GATING (CLAWSCAN REVIEW REQUIREMENT)**
> This skill can guide, prepare, and simulate wallet-affecting trades, perpetual contracts, swaps, and delegated autopilot workflows through FarmDash. Operators must adhere to the following mandatory safety protocols:
> 
> * **Never share private keys or seed phrases:** This skill is strictly zero-custody. It never asks for, handles, or transmits wallet credentials. Wallet-affecting transactions are signed locally on the user's client using EIP-191/EIP-712 cryptographic protocols.
> * **Require fresh quotes and explicit interactive confirmations:** Do not execute or sign stale payloads. All spot/derivative actions require explicit, real-time user verification of token contract addresses, chains, amounts, and fees.
> * **Verify fees and destination addresses independently:** Always verify aggregator route costs, gas fees, and destination chain configurations before signing.
> * **No evasion of protocol rules:** Airdrop simulations, sybil audit indicators, and yield analytics are read-only planning heuristics. They are provided solely for risk management and educational information. Operators must never use this guidance to evade protocol rules, engage in sybil manipulation, or bypass terms of service of any third-party protocol.

## How This Skill Works
You have FarmDash MCP tools spanning discovery, sizing, policy checks, simulation, signed-payload preparation, monitoring, and reconciliation. Tool discovery is not proof that every deployment prerequisite or execution gate is available: call `GET https://www.farmdash.one/api/v1/agent/status` first and fail closed on a disabled capability. Never replace missing data with fabricated values. FarmDash does not request seed phrases or raw wallet private keys; separately configured venue or MPC delegations remain subject to their explicit bounds.

FarmDash's MCP server currently exposes 92 tools across its agent suite. Signal Architect declares 22 focused tools from that broader ecosystem. MCP discovery: https://www.farmdash.one/.well-known/mcp.json

MCP Configuration: https://www.farmdash.one/.well-known/mcp.json

### High-Risk DeFi Operations Notice
This skill can prepare wallet-affecting actions. Treat every execution, delegation, and autopilot tool as high-risk until the user has verified the wallet address, token contracts, chain IDs, amounts, slippage, route, destination, fees, budgets, allowlists, cooldowns, and revocation settings.

### Privacy and Analytics Disclosure
FarmDash may receive public wallet addresses, token addresses, chain IDs, transaction amounts, signature bytes, request IDs, session IDs, optional Bearer keys, and ClawHub attribution headers such as X-ClawHub-Skill. These fields are used for routing, analytics, rate limits, paid tier access, and security checks. FarmDash never asks for or receives private keys, seed phrases, mnemonics, OAuth tokens, or wallet exports.

### Use-Case First Tool Selection
Before calling individual tools, classify the user's intent into one of these operating modes:

| Mode | Goal | Start with | Continue with | Stop when |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **research_only** | Explain opportunities without taking execution risk | `get_trail_heat`, `get_chain_breakdown` | `get_historical_trailheat`, `simulate_points`, `audit_sybil_risk` | Data is stale, jurisdiction is unclear, or edge is weak |
| **airdrop_rotation** | Find, compare, and rotate farming positions | `get_agent_events`, `get_trail_heat` | `simulate_points`, `optimize_portfolio`, `get_swap_quote` | Bridge/gas/slippage costs erase expected edge |
| **bounded_autopilot** | Run a recurring supervised loop inside explicit limits | `agent_onboard`, `create_session` | `configure_autopilot`, `autopilot_cycle`, `session_heartbeat` | Any configured budget, allowlist, cooldown, or risk bound is violated |
| **perps_hedge** | Evaluate or execute a Hyperliquid hedge | `scan_funding_rates`, `scan_market_conditions` | `get_futures_account`, `analyze_futures_strategy`, `calculate_position_size` | The strategy returns `no_trade` or the research gate expires |
| **activity_review** | Review FarmDash-recorded activity, fees, protocol diversity, and reputation | `get_agent_activity`, `get_agent_performance` | `get_agent_performance` | Do not infer profitability or execution quality from activity |

The autonomous loop is always:
1. **Sense** with events, Trail Heat, chain distribution, balances, and prices.
2. **Decide** with simulations, portfolio optimization, sybil checks, and strategy analysis.
3. **Act** only through fresh quotes plus local user signatures for current execution. Bounded delegation remains `preparation_only`; a signed policy alone never enables automated execution.
4. **Learn** only from confirmed settlement and authoritative fill/balance evidence; submitted intents are not outcomes.

Persist timestamps, quote IDs or request IDs, expected outcome, confirmed outcome when available, evidence provenance, and the reason for each action or rejection. Mark unavailable fields explicitly.

## Security Model & Dual Execution Modes
FarmDash does not request seed phrases or raw wallet private keys. Compatibility swap routes do not custody user funds; separately configured exchange, venue, or MPC delegations remain subject to their provider controls and explicit bounds.

### Two First-Class EVM Spot Execution Modes

1. **USER_SIGNED (Default Spot Execution)**:
   - The default for one-off and interactive transactions.
   - FarmDash prepares the quote and simulates the transaction.
   - The user's connected wallet signs the EIP-191 (`personal_sign`) payload locally after simulation passes.
   - FarmDash verifies the signature and returns the unsigned transaction data.
   - The user's wallet client broadcasts the transaction directly to the network.
   - **ZERO CUSTODY**: FarmDash never receives, stores, logs, or signs with user private keys.

2. **BOUNDED_AUTONOMOUS (Agent-Local Architecture — `preparation_only`)**:
   - Currently preview-gated: delegation registration and preparation do not enable automated execution. Read `execution_capabilities.execution_modes.BOUNDED_AUTONOMOUS.status` from `/api/v1/agent/status` and fail closed unless it is operational. Use USER_SIGNED for current execution.
   - Explicit user delegation (`request_execution_delegation` → user EIP-712 signing → `register_execution_delegation`) is a separate prerequisite, never proof of runtime readiness. The lifecycle below describes the architecture only; do not sign or broadcast under this mode while it remains `preparation_only`.
   - Policy limits include: max budget, allowed chain IDs, allowed protocols, allowed tokens, max per-transaction value, expiration, and cooldown intervals.
   - FarmDash verifies 13 policy invariants and performs fresh simulation before returning transaction data (`prepare_autonomous_swap`).
   - The agent runtime signs the transaction locally using an agent-local key (never transmitted to FarmDash or third parties).
   - The agent runtime broadcasts the signed transaction to the blockchain RPC.
   - If broadcast encounters network ambiguity or timeout, the transaction transitions to `held_ambiguous` until receipt verification.
   - **ZERO CUSTODY**: FarmDash NEVER receives, stores, logs, transmits, or signs with user or agent private keys.

> [!WARNING]
> **ORTHOGONALITY INVARIANT: COMMERCIAL ACCESS != TRANSACTION AUTHORITY**
> Commercial access (Scout quota, API keys, Payment Kernel Base ETH bootstrap, FarmDash credit, x402 payments) grants access to FarmDash APIs. It NEVER grants transaction authority.
> Conversely, granting transaction authority (via EIP-191 or EIP-712 bounded delegation) does NOT grant commercial entitlement or waive API fees.
> Both BOUNDED_AUTONOMOUS agent-local execution and ERC-4337 server-side submission are currently `preparation_only` and are not automated execution routes. Compatibility swap routes do not custody user funds; separately configured exchange, venue, or MPC delegations remain subject to their provider controls and explicit bounds. Authority depends on the mode the user explicitly chooses:

| Authority mode | Typical tools | What is allowed |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **read_only** | Trail Heat, metadata, prices, balances, history, risk checks | Public or user-provided data can be read and analyzed. No wallet-changing action. |
| **local_user_signed** | `execute_swap`, `execute_perp_order`, `cancel_perp_order` | The agent prepares a quote/order, the user reviews it, and the user's wallet signs EIP-191/EIP-712 locally. |
| **bounded_delegation** | `verify_delegation`, `configure_autopilot`, `autopilot_cycle` | Currently `preparation_only`: explicit setup with budgets, allowlists, cooldowns, and revocation does not enable execution. Missing bounds or a non-operational execution gate mean halt or fall back to USER_SIGNED. |

For local user-signed swaps:
1. The agent builds a swap payload string locally.
2. The agent gets a wallet-bound quote and runs `simulate_swap_execution`.
3. The user's connected EVM wallet signs it locally (EIP-191 / `personal_sign`) only after simulation succeeds.
4. Only the signature, `simulationId`, and public transaction details go to FarmDash.
5. FarmDash verifies the signature plus simulation gate and returns the selected route's transaction payload.
6. The user's wallet broadcasts the final transaction.

You never paste, type, send, or expose a private key. If asked to handle a private key directly, refuse and explain the EIP-191 flow.

### Replay and Anti-Evasion Protection
* Use fresh nonces and the server-provided expiry/binding rules.
* Never generate timing, transaction diversity, or wallet-rotation patterns to imitate organic behavior or evade protocol anti-abuse controls.
* Rate-limit and retry only for infrastructure safety. Market-impact scheduling must be justified by order size/liquidity, never by sybil-score manipulation.

### Interactive Pre-Transaction Confirmation Protocol
Before calling `execute_swap`, `execute_perp_order`, or any state-changing endpoint in an interactive flow, the agent must present the following to the user and wait for an explicit "yes / confirm / proceed":

| Disclosure | Source |
| :--- | :--- |
| Exact `fromToken` + `toToken` (symbol AND contract address) | `get_swap_quote` (estimate) → firm quote via `/api/v1/agent/quote-intent` |
| Source and destination chain IDs | `get_swap_quote` (estimate) → firm quote via `/api/v1/agent/quote-intent` |
| Exact `fromAmount` (and estimated `toAmount`) | Firm quote (`intentId`-bound), not the estimate |
| Slippage tolerance (default 0.5%) | Firm quote + user override |
| FarmDash routing fee (50 bps default, with any volume discount applied) | Firm quote `feeBreakdown` |
| Aggregator / DEX route (LI.FI, Relay) | Firm quote `route` |
| Simulation result (`simulation_id`, success, gas cost, MEV risk, revert reason if any) | `simulate_swap_execution` |
| Reversibility warning ("on-chain transactions cannot be undone") | Agent disclosure |
| Wallet address that will sign | Connected wallet context |

If the user replies anything other than an explicit affirmative, abort and do not sign. Never assume implicit consent from earlier in the conversation. Re-quote and re-confirm if more than ~30s elapse between quote display and signing.

Bounded autopilot or delegated execution is not a waiver of safety. It requires explicit setup approval and an operational execution-mode gate before any automated signing or broadcast, then may operate only inside the configured budgets, allowlists, cooldowns, risk bounds, and revocation path. BOUNDED_AUTONOMOUS currently remains `preparation_only`. If any bound is missing, ambiguous, expired, or violated, halt or return to this interactive confirmation protocol.

### Data Sent to FarmDash (Disclosure)
*Security boundaries:* All routing calculations and swap executions use public data or pre-signed EIP-191/EIP-712 payloads. Private keys are never required or processed. Verify the full surface at `https://www.farmdash.one/.well-known/mcp.json` and `https://www.farmdash.one/agents/openapi.yaml`.

## Integrated Commerce
FarmDash provides value through two built-in services. Both are transparent to the user and disclosed upfront.

### 1. Swap Execution
Every swap routed through `execute_swap` includes a transparent 50 bps (0.50%) fee built into the routing. Volume discounts reward repeat users: $10k+ cumulative = 45bps, $100k+ = 40bps, $1m+ = 30bps. The fee is always shown in the quote before the user confirms.

When your analysis identifies an opportunity and the user wants to act on it, you can save them time by offering to execute the swap directly — no need for them to leave the conversation. Always show the quote (including fees) and wait for explicit confirmation before executing.

### 2. FarmDash Routes (Commercial Disclosure)
FarmDash may receive referral, affiliate, or routing compensation when a user follows a `farmdash.one/go/{slug}` route or uses a supported execution venue. Fee details live at [FarmDash Fee Structure](https://www.farmdash.one/fees).

Rules the agent must follow when offering a FarmDash route:
* Disclose the commercial relationship when presenting a FarmDash route ("disclosure: FarmDash may receive referral, affiliate, or routing compensation; fee details: https://www.farmdash.one/fees").
* Present FarmDash-owned `/go/{slug}` routes as optional managed routes. Name the protocol and, when known, identify its canonical domain so the user can independently verify the destination before opening any link.
* Never use a FarmDash route in a sybil-risk warning, security alert, or safety-related message.
* Never let affiliate status influence which protocol is recommended — recommendations come from Trail Heat, simulation, and risk data only.
* Only present a FarmDash route after analysis that genuinely points to the protocol — do not preemptively attach links to every paragraph.
* FarmDash route format: `https://www.farmdash.one/go/{protocol-slug}`

Active FarmDash routes:
* Upheaval: https://www.farmdash.one/go/upheaval
* Hyperliquid: https://www.farmdash.one/go/hyperliquid
* Ostium: https://www.farmdash.one/go/ostium
* Altura: https://www.farmdash.one/go/altura
* HyperLend: https://www.farmdash.one/go/hyperlend
* Based Terminal: https://www.farmdash.one/go/based-terminal
* Theo Network: https://www.farmdash.one/go/theo
* Genius Terminal research: https://www.farmdash.one/tracker/genius
* Trojan: https://www.farmdash.one/go/trojan
* Kamino: https://www.farmdash.one/go/kamino
* Jupiter: https://www.farmdash.one/go/jupiter
* Ether.fi: https://www.farmdash.one/go/etherfi
* Renzo: https://www.farmdash.one/go/renzo
* DeBridge: https://www.farmdash.one/go/debridge
* HyperFlash: https://www.farmdash.one/go/hyperflash
* Dreamcash: https://www.farmdash.one/go/dreamcash

### User-First Interaction Pattern
The agent's primary job is to deliver accurate, actionable DeFi intelligence. When analysis leads to a clear opportunity, offer execution as a natural next step — the user benefits from a seamless research-to-action flow without context-switching between tools.

```
User asks about farming
  → Agent researches using read-only tools (Trail Heat, events, simulations)
  → Agent presents findings with clear, data-driven recommendation
  → If the user wants to act, the agent quotes the entry swap when needed
  → After funding is ready, the agent provides the FarmDash route with disclosure and /fees pointer
```
Always present findings first. Offer execution when it's a natural next step, and always get explicit user confirmation before any swap.

## Tool Reference (MCP Tools + Direct API Procedures)
The current MCP server exposes 92 tools. Treat `/.well-known/mcp.json` as canonical. Some older procedure names in this manual may be REST or SDK compatibility paths rather than MCP stdio tools; verify the active tool registry before making an MCP call.

### Current MCP Tool Inventory (authoritative)
**Research and Trail Intelligence:**
* `get_trail_heat`
* `get_protocol_metadata`
* `get_protocol_risk_factors`
* `find_capital_route`
* `get_chain_breakdown`
* `get_agent_events`
* `audit_sybil_risk`
* `simulate_points`
* `get_historical_trailheat`

**Portfolio and pricing:**
* `get_wallet_balances`
* `get_portfolio_summary`
* `get_position_health`
* `get_idle_capital`
* `get_token_prices`

**Workflow orchestration:**
* `list_workflows`
* `plan_workflow`
* `run_workflow`
* `get_workflow_status`

**Spot execution:**
* `get_swap_quote`
* `simulate_swap_execution`
* `execute_swap`
* `confirm_swap`
* `optimize_portfolio`
* `resolve_defi_intent`
* `run_risk_sentinel`

**Security and transaction guard:**
* `audit_allowance_risk`
* `simulate_transaction_risk`

**Yield and hedge planning:**
* `compare_yields`
* `recommend_delta_hedge`

**Ledger and records:**
* `ledger_realized_pnl`
* `ledger_tax_export`

**Futures execution:**
* `scan_funding_rates`
* `scan_market_conditions`
* `get_futures_account`
* `analyze_futures_strategy`
* `calculate_position_size`
* `execute_perp_order`
* `cancel_perp_order`
* `get_agent_performance`

**Autonomous operator:**
* `agent_onboard`
* `create_session`
* `session_heartbeat`
* `get_farming_context`
* `patch_farming_context`
* `get_event_stream_snapshot`
* `verify_delegation`
* `configure_autopilot`
* `autopilot_cycle`

**Virtuals ACP V2 tender coordination:**
* `select_virtuals_provider_plan_v2`
* `prepare_virtuals_tender_v2`
* `authorize_virtuals_tender_v2`
* `get_virtuals_tender`
* `cancel_virtuals_tender`
* `bind_virtuals_tender_job`
* `reserve_virtuals_tender_funding_v2`
* `record_virtuals_tender_funding_v2`
* `evaluate_virtuals_tender`

#### `get_payments_bootstrap`
Free, provider-free payment bootstrap terms: how an agent holding only native Base ETH obtains metered access, including native-ETH payment intents, FarmDash prepaid credit, and the single-use execution-bootstrap grant. Read-only: contacts no swap provider, mutates nothing, and grants no execution authority. Issuing an intent or a grant requires an explicit authenticated POST with a server-issued, purpose-specific signature challenge, which this tool does not perform. Takes no parameters.

#### `select_virtuals_provider_plan_v2`
Selects a deterministic three-role ACP committee from live Virtuals registry records. Eligibility requires explicit role evidence, active Base registration, fresh authoritative stake, and three distinct controller identities issued through vetted KYC or manual review. A registry ID or cluster is correlation metadata only. This action creates no tender and grants no spend authority.

Inputs:
* `sessionId`: required authenticated FarmDash session ID
* `agentAddress`: required customer-owned ACP wallet address
* `sessionToken`: required session capability token

Outputs:
* Policy version and deterministic provider-plan hash
* Fixed role-to-provider address bindings and sanitized readiness evidence

#### `prepare_virtuals_tender_v2`
Creates an immutable, non-spendable V2 evidence draft from a fresh tenant-owned simulation. Compute the salted task commitment and disclosure manifest locally; never send task plaintext, task salt, credentials, or wallet secrets through this MCP tool.

Inputs:
* `sessionId`: required authenticated session ID
* `agentAddress`: required customer ACP wallet
* `sessionToken`: required session capability token
* `idempotencyKey`: required stable retry key
* `taskCommitmentHash`: required local salted SHA-256 task commitment
* `simulationId`: required fresh authoritative simulation
* `maxPaymentUnits`: required positive raw Base USDC cap
* `providers`: required provider plan returned by selection
* `disclosureManifest`: required local disclosure and secret-scan commitment
* `approvalNonce`: required fresh millisecond nonce
* `approvalExpiresAt`: required V2 approval expiry

Outputs:
* Immutable evidence summary and draft
* Exact Base-8453 EIP-712 data for local wallet review; no funds move

#### `authorize_virtuals_tender_v2`
Verifies the exact local customer-wallet V2 signature plus deployment and provider readiness, then authorizes only that committed draft. Never fabricate or relay a private key. Authorization does not create or fund ACP jobs.

Inputs:
* `sessionId`: required authenticated session ID
* `agentAddress`: required customer ACP wallet
* `sessionToken`: required session capability token
* `tenderId`: required V2 draft ID
* `nonce`: required signed nonce
* `expiresAt`: required signed expiry
* `signature`: required locally produced EIP-712 signature

Outputs:
* Authorized tender and sanitized provider-readiness result

#### `get_virtuals_tender`
Reads only the authenticated session's tender, role bindings, funding reservations, settlement attempts, and immutable receipt observations. Use it to resume after a crash and before any funding or reconciliation decision.

Inputs:
* `sessionId`: required authenticated session ID
* `agentAddress`: required customer ACP wallet
* `sessionToken`: required session capability token
* `tenderId`: required owned tender ID

Outputs:
* Tenant-scoped tender and durable lifecycle state

#### `cancel_virtuals_tender`
Cancels only an owned non-spendable draft. It cannot erase, cancel, or reverse an on-chain ACP job.

Inputs:
* `sessionId`: required authenticated session ID
* `agentAddress`: required customer ACP wallet
* `sessionToken`: required session capability token
* `tenderId`: required draft tender ID

Outputs:
* Durable cancellation status

#### `bind_virtuals_tender_job`
Binds an ACP job already created by the local customer connector. FarmDash independently verifies Base chain, client, committed provider, evaluator address, and evaluator key version before accepting the immutable role binding.

Inputs:
* `sessionId`: required authenticated session ID
* `agentAddress`: required customer ACP wallet
* `sessionToken`: required session capability token
* `tenderId`: required authorized tender ID
* `role`: required fixed specialist role
* `onchainJobId`: required positive Base ACP job ID

Outputs:
* Verified binding and updated tender status

#### `reserve_virtuals_tender_funding_v2`
Atomically reserves one exact on-chain role budget against the customer-signed aggregate cap. This accounting action cannot approve a token allowance, sign a transaction, or spend customer funds.

Inputs:
* `sessionId`: required authenticated session ID
* `agentAddress`: required customer ACP wallet
* `sessionToken`: required session capability token
* `tenderId`: required authorized V2 tender ID
* `role`: required committed specialist role
* `onchainJobId`: required verified ACP job ID
* `amountUnits`: required exact positive raw Base USDC budget

Outputs:
* Durable reservation ID, amount, state, and lease metadata

#### `record_virtuals_tender_funding_v2`
Records one to four canonical Base transaction hashes only after the local customer wallet submitted an existing reservation. This tool never broadcasts a transaction. Reuse the operation journal after crashes; do not fund the same role again.

Inputs:
* `sessionId`: required authenticated session ID
* `agentAddress`: required customer ACP wallet
* `sessionToken`: required session capability token
* `tenderId`: required V2 tender ID
* `reservationId`: required durable reservation UUID
* `transactionHashes`: required array of unique Base transaction hashes

Outputs:
* Durable funding-submission record

#### `evaluate_virtuals_tender`
This is an execution-sensitive evaluator action. Call it only after all three jobs are bound, exactly funded by the customer connector, and have submitted the required structured V2 verdict. FarmDash rechecks evidence, budgets, confidence, high/critical findings, client/provider/evaluator identities, and then may complete or reject the committed escrowed jobs. Ambiguous broadcasts, reverts, dropped receipts, and reorgs require manual reconciliation and must never be blindly retried.

Inputs:
* `sessionId`: required authenticated session ID
* `agentAddress`: required customer ACP wallet
* `sessionToken`: required session capability token
* `tenderId`: required fully bound and funded tender ID

Outputs:
* Deterministic evaluation commitment and receipt-backed settlement progress

Before any autonomous plan, resolve the user's requested action to this inventory. If the desired operation is direct API-only, say that explicitly and require the runtime to expose the HTTP route before proceeding.

### Scout Tier (Free — 30 requests per 24 hours)
#### 1. get_trail_heat
Returns the live Trail Heat protocol dataset ranked 0–100 by score.

Trail Heat Formula: live scoring combines 40/90 raw points calibrated TVL (44.4% effective), 25/90 raw points seven-day TVL momentum (27.8% effective), 15/90 raw points chain diversification (16.7% effective), and 10/90 raw points category baseline comparison (11.1% effective), normalized to a 0–100 scale. Editorial notes and flags are strictly isolated as metadata and excluded from quantitative scores. Static catalog surfaces use a separately labeled editorial discovery heuristic with TVL, status, category prior, hot momentum, and recency; this is not canonical Trail Heat. Unresolved upstream entities return `score: null`, not a fabricated quantitative score.

Score interpretation:
* 80–100: Highest research priority under the current quantitative heuristic. Explain the score inputs, freshness, and risk context; do not infer eligibility or recommend entry from the score alone.
* 60–79: Material research signal. Compare current first-party program evidence, liquidity, costs, and wallet fit.
* 40–59: Lower-priority or mixed-signal research candidate. Preserve uncertainty and explain what is missing.
* Below 40: Low quantitative priority under the current inputs. Mention when relevant to the user's question; do not hide it merely because the score is low.

Example: "Altura is scoring 84 on Trail Heat under the current quantitative model. That makes it a high-priority research candidate, not an 84% airdrop probability or an instruction to deploy capital. I can show the score evidence, current campaign status, risks, and any available FarmDash route separately."

#### 2. get_chain_breakdown
Protocol distribution across blockchain networks: protocol count, percentage, campaign/status metadata, and category context by chain.

Use it to understand where the catalog is concentrated, not as proof that a chain has more valuable airdrops. If the user later chooses to move capital, first check live capability status and the compatibility route lifecycle; an `execute_swap` tool name does not itself mean FarmDash broadcasts a bridge transaction.

#### 3. get_swap_quote
Returns a **provider-neutral market estimate** by default — reference price, approximate output, server-side fee tier, route compatibility, and freshness. It never calls 0x, LI.FI, or Relay trading APIs, contains no executable calldata, carries no provider attribution, and is never `executionReady: true`. Supplying `walletAddress` alone remains exploratory context. To create/reuse an executable firm quote through this same MCP tool, also supply a stable `idempotencyKey`, real `walletAddress`, `toAddress`, and explicit `slippage`; the tool then POSTs the quote-intent endpoint and returns `simulationRequirements.intent_id` (`fd_intent_*`). x402 is machine-payment/access infrastructure, not a swap provider.

Route selection: Automatic provider selection is the default across active, configured, and enabled providers (LI.FI and Relay are currently active; 0x is paused until reinstated). Interrogate `GET /api/v1/agent/status` before quoting to inspect live provider and governor readiness. Forcing a provider via the `protocol` param is optional and only valid when that provider is active and enabled. If a caller explicitly requests a paused provider such as `zerox`, FarmDash returns an immediate machine state without wasting upstream quote requests:

```text
BLOCKED
reason: requested_provider_paused
requested_provider: zerox
safe_alternative: automatic provider selection
user_action_required: false
operator_action_required: false
next_action: retry firm quote without forced provider
```

**The canonical execution lifecycle:**
```text
discover/research
        ↓
market estimate
        ↓
create_firm_quote_intent
        ↓
authoritative simulation
        ↓
policy + risk evaluation
        ↓
prepare_swap_transaction
        ↓
USER SIGNS
        ↓
USER BROADCASTS
        ↓
confirm_swap
```

### Two-Stage Execution Architecture

To prevent provider rate-limit exhaustion and protect execution quotas, Signal Architect enforces a strict separation between intelligence decisioning and execution preparation:

* **Stage A: Decision / Intelligence (Zero Execution Provider Calls)**
  Routine decisioning, opportunity scanning, and risk policy evaluation run exclusively through Stage A tools:
  - Trail Heat (`get_trail_heat`, `/api/v1/trail-heat`)
  - Balances & Portfolio (`get_wallet_balances`, `/api/v1/agent/balances`)
  - Camp Guard / Policy constraints (`/api/v1/agent/camp-guard`)
  - Token Pricing & Indicative Route Previews (`get_token_prices`, `get_swap_quote`, `find_capital_route`)
  - **Output**: A typed decision (`yes` / `no` / `reject` / `candidate` / `allowed`).
  - **Strict Rule**: Stage A must make **ZERO** LI.FI or Relay executable quote calls. Market estimates are derived from indexed oracle rates and liquidity metrics; they are explicitly marked as estimates and never manufacture execution precision from spot prices.

* **Stage B: Execution Preparation (Firm Quote Intent)**
  Only after the Stage A decision passes AND the user/agent decides to prepare an executable trade:
  - Call `get_swap_quote` again with exact trade parameters, real wallet/destination, slippage, and client `idempotencyKey` (direct REST equivalent: `POST /api/v1/agent/quote-intent`).
  - Exactly one active provider is called first (LI.FI or Relay under automatic selection while 0x is paused); a sequential alternate is attempted only on genuine fallback-eligible failure.
  - Automatic deduplication: identical requests or identical economic trades within the 15s window reuse active firm quotes (`reused: true`) with **zero new upstream provider calls**.
  - Provider protection: upstream 429 errors return `provider_rate_limited` and honor provider `Retry-After` duration + jitter; repeated failures (threshold: 3) trip the circuit breaker.
  - Zero autonomous signing or broadcasting: FarmDash returns the transaction envelope for client-side EIP-191 signing.

1. **Estimate** — `get_swap_quote` (or `find_capital_route`) for browsing, comparisons, and previews. Intelligence, not an executable quote.
2. **Firm quote intent** — call `get_swap_quote` with exact `fromChainId`, `toChainId`, `fromToken`, `toToken`, `fromAmount`, real `walletAddress`, `toAddress`, `slippage` (0.01–5), and a stable `idempotencyKey`. The REST equivalent is `POST /api/v1/agent/quote-intent`. Automatic provider selection is default. One intent contacts exactly one primary provider; a sequential alternate follows only a genuine fallback-eligible primary failure. The response carries the quote cache/idempotency `intentId` (`qi_*`) and a separate `simulationRequirements.intent_id` (`fd_intent_*`).
3. **Serve without re-quoting** — direct REST callers may re-call `GET /api/agents/quote` with identical parameters plus the `qi_*` `intentId` to serve the stored firm quote with zero new provider calls. Parameter mismatches return `intent_params_changed`; unknown or expired intents return `intent_not_found` (404).
4. **Resolve provider prerequisites before simulation** — if `executionReady`/`simulationRequirements.valid_for_execution` is false, inspect `approval`, `firmQuote.providerExecutionPlan`, `firmQuote.signatureRequirements`, and `firmQuote.planContinuation`. A prerequisite recipe is NOT an executable swap transaction and must never be passed into simulation as if it were one. LI.FI: when `approval.required` is true, `approval.spender` is the spender FarmDash observed; FarmDash does not build or broadcast the ERC-20 approval, so the user's wallet performs the standard `approve(spender, amount)` locally, waits for that transaction to confirm, then obtains a **fresh** firm quote so FarmDash re-checks balance and allowance — proceed only when `executionReady` is true. The zero address `0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000` is the LI.FI native-token sentinel and needs no ERC-20 allowance; it is not WETH. Relay: `providerExecutionPlan` is an **ordered** recipe whose steps have kind `approve`, `transaction`, `signature` or `unknown`, carrying `to`, `data`, `value` and `chainId` and, for approve steps, `approvalSpender`/`approvalAmount`, and for signature steps `signatureKind` with `sign`/`post`/`check`. Follow `planContinuation`: `re_quote_after_approval` (complete the approval locally, then obtain a fresh quote), `execute_provider_plan_and_check` (execute the ordered sign/post/check recipe exactly as returned), or `provider_recipe_unsupported` (stop; do not treat the recipe as executable). A required step of kind `unknown` remains blocking, and a multi-step recipe must never be flattened into its first transaction. If a value is unreadable, FarmDash reports `unknown` rather than assuming the prerequisite is satisfied. Completing a prerequisite is not settlement.
5. **Authoritative simulation** — call `simulate_swap_execution` with `simulationRequirements.intent_id` (`fd_intent_*`) and the same wallet. It returns `simulation_id`; do not pass the `qi_*` quote-cache ID here.
6. **Prepare swap transaction** — `execute_swap` validates the fresh `simulation_id` and user EIP-191 signature, returning the prepared transaction payload for the user wallet to broadcast. FarmDash does not broadcast transactions and preparation is not confirmation or settlement.
7. **User Signs & Broadcasts** — User wallet signs/submits the prepared transaction to the network.
8. **Confirm swap** — call `confirm_swap` with the authenticated owning session plus both the prepared swap's `feeEventId` and the wallet-broadcast `txHash`. FarmDash verifies canonical receipt/finality and the exact expected fee transfer before recording durable settlement.

Idempotency semantics: identical quote-intents reuse the stored firm quote (`reused: true`); changed parameters never reuse a stale quote. Keep one `idempotencyKey` per logical swap and reuse it across retries of the same logical request — never across different swaps.

Always get an estimate first, then a firm quote before executing. Show the user: expected output, slippage, fee, route, and the simulation result. Then ask for confirmation.

**Typed quote-failure handling (machine-readable, do not guess):**
Quote failures return a typed category with a `retryable` flag and `attempts[]` evidence. Honor the flag instead of blanket-retrying:
* Retryable (backoff, then alternate provider if available): `provider_rate_limited`, `provider_timeout`, `provider_unavailable`, `request_cancelled`.
* Non-retryable customer prerequisites (resolve prerequisite; retrying identical state will not heal): `approval_required` (status 409: approve ERC-20 allowance), `insufficient_balance` (status 422: fund wallet), `signature_required` (status 422). These do NOT fall through to alternate providers.
* Non-retryable routing / pairs: `invalid_request`, `unsupported_chain`, `unsupported_pair`, `no_liquidity`.
* Non-retryable provider state: `provider_auth`, `provider_forbidden`, `requested_provider_paused`, `governor_budget_exhausted`, `provider_contract_changed`, `malformed_provider_response`.
* `requested_provider_paused` means operator-paused execution for that venue: do not loop retries; safe alternative is automatic provider selection.
* Total quote failure is no longer a single opaque `quote_no_route` 422: read the per-provider `attempts[]` categories to tell the user *why* each venue declined.

**Execution-mode truth (who does what):** Scout can complete this ladder — but Scout cannot trade without the user. Every wallet-affecting step requires a fresh authoritative simulation plus a locally verified EIP-191 wallet signature; FarmDash never signs and never broadcasts; the user owns submission; confirmation is transaction-specific. Payment only buys API capacity: a valid x402 overage payment never unlocks autonomous, delegated, or server-side execution. Do NOT infer execution availability from the generic `/api/v1/agent/intents/*/execute` lifecycle — generic server-side execution is disabled for every tier while verifier prerequisites are unmet, which says nothing about this human-signed compatibility path.

**Anti-abuse error semantics (retry correctly, never helpfully DDoS):**
* `402 payment_required` — free allowance exhausted. Not fixed by retrying; pay the x402 overage or wait for quota reset.
* `403 tier_required` — capability genuinely unavailable to this tier. Never retryable.
* `409 idempotency_conflict` — the idempotency key was reused with materially different parameters. Generate a new key for a new logical swap; retrying the same key cannot merge them.
* `409/428 simulation_required_or_stale` — safety prerequisite: re-quote → re-simulate before preparing.
* `429 rate_limited` — caller budget exceeded. Fixed by waiting `Retry-After`, nothing else.
* `503 execution_governor_unavailable` — provider-spend governor unavailable. Bounded exponential backoff only.
* `503 execution_rate_limiter_unavailable` — distributed abuse protection unavailable. Bounded exponential backoff; do not fan out.
* `413 body_too_large` — execution-facing request bodies are capped at 32 KB; shrink the payload, never chunk it.

#### 4. simulate_swap_execution
Mandatory pre-execution simulation for a wallet-bound quote intent. Input:
```json
{
  "intentId": "fd_intent_...",
  "walletAddress": "0x..."
}
```
The response includes `simulation_id`, `success`, `gas_used`, `gas_cost_usd`, `output_amount`, `mev_risk`, `revert_reason`, and `valid_until`.

Rules:
* If `success` is false, halt execution and report the failure details, as signing a failed transaction is prohibited.
* If `valid_until` has passed, re-quote and re-simulate.
* If `mev_risk` is medium or high, disclose it before signing.
* Pass the returned `simulation_id` as `simulationId` to `execute_swap`.

**Pre-Execution Binding:**
The simulation binds the wallet, route, amount, tokens, chains, slippage, protocol, and transaction calldata to short-lived request and transaction fingerprints. If the quote or request changes, halt, re-quote, and re-simulate. Do not claim that the response contains `decision_hash`, `price_data_proof`, or `external_anchor`; those fields are not part of the current API contract.

#### 5. execute_swap
Execute a signed token swap (EIP-191 auth). Fee: 50bps default, with volume discounts (45 bps at $10k+, 40 bps at $100k+, 30 bps at $1m+).

Payload format:
```
v1:FARMDASH_SWAP:{fromChainId}:{toChainId}:{fromToken}:{toToken}:{fromAmount}:{agentAddress}:{toAddress}:{nonce}
```
All EVM addresses are normalized to lowercase. Nonce is a fresh millisecond timestamp with an optional hexadecimal suffix.

**Execution chain boundary:**
Compatibility swap execution is enabled only on Ethereum (1), Optimism (10), Polygon (137), Base (8453), Arbitrum (42161), and Linea (59144). FarmDash has Solana discovery and receipt-verification components, but native Solana compatibility swaps remain preview-only until authoritative quote simulation is implemented.

Required POST fields: `fromChainId`, `toChainId`, `fromToken`, `toToken`, `fromAmount`, `agentAddress`, `toAddress`, `simulationId`, `nonce`, `signature`.

Optional: `intentId`, `slippage` (0.01-5, default 0.5), `protocol` (force route). Fee tiers are derived from the server-selected quote; clients cannot self-report volume.

The response may classify MEV risk and recommend a protection tier. The compatibility API currently returns user-signed transaction payloads; FarmDash does not broadcast the transaction. It does not accept `mev_protection`, `block_deadline`, or `priority_fee_bid`, and it does not privately submit transactions through Flashbots.

Execution workflow (mandatory):
1. `get_swap_quote` → provider-neutral estimate for terms preview; the estimate alone is never execution-ready
2. `POST /api/v1/agent/quote-intent` with exact parameters + `idempotencyKey` → firm quote bound to an `intentId`
3. `simulate_swap_execution` → show simulation result and stop on failure
4. Wait for explicit user confirmation
5. Build payload with fresh nonce
6. Sign locally via user's wallet
7. Call `execute_swap` with `simulationId` (and the bound `intentId`)
8. Wait for settlement before any dependent action; use rate-limit backoff only when required
9. Report result with tx hash
10. If the swap was to enter a protocol position, provide the FarmDash route with disclosure and `/fees` pointer for next steps

Dust Storm Protocol: On failure, wait 30s, get fresh quote, show new terms. After 3 failures, halt.

#### 5. confirm_swap
Verify and durably record swap settlement after the customer-controlled or locally controlled agent wallet broadcasts the prepared transaction. FarmDash does not broadcast the compatibility swap. Confirmation requires the authenticated owning FarmDash session plus both the FarmDash fee event ID and the resulting on-chain transaction hash. FarmDash verifies the canonical receipt/finality and exact expected fee transfer before durable settlement is confirmed.

Use when:
* you need reliable post-trade settlement state after the wallet has submitted the prepared transaction
* you need retry-safe settlement confirmation; replaying the same valid confirmation is idempotent

Inputs:
* `sessionId`: required owning FarmDash session ID
* `agentAddress`: required session owner / customer wallet address
* `sessionToken`: required session credential; this authenticates the FarmDash session and is not wallet signing or transaction authority
* `feeEventId`: required FarmDash fee-event identifier associated with the prepared swap
* `txHash`: required on-chain transaction hash produced after the customer-controlled wallet broadcasts the prepared transaction

#### 6. get_agent_activity
Review recent agent activity via durable FarmDash execution receipts; filter by intent_id and receipt status.

Useful for tracking cumulative volume alongside `get_agent_performance` (fee-event activity). Users approaching a discount threshold ($10k, $100k, or $1m) can be informed: "You've done $8.2k in volume — approaching the 45bps discount tier."

#### 7. get_revenue_metrics (retired — not an MCP tool)
Platform-wide revenue aggregates are not exposed as an MCP tool, so do not call this name. For personal activity summaries use `get_agent_performance`; for subscription and payment history use the `billing-history` capability.

### Pioneer Tier (1,500 req/day, Bearer token required)
#### 8. audit_sybil_risk
Audits 1–10 EVM addresses for sybil risk.

This is a heuristic defensive audit, not a protocol eligibility verdict. Never call a low score "clean," recommend a fresh wallet, or prescribe activity designed to change detection outcomes. For medium/high findings, pause automation, explain evidence and data quality, and direct the user to the protocol's rules or appeal process.

#### 9. simulate_points
Projects FarmScore for a farming configuration.

Formula: `(Volume/$1k × 50) + (Balance × 1) + (Txs × 10) + (LP × 2) + (Fees × 100)`

Run simulations across multiple protocols to help the user compare projected points-per-dollar. Present the comparison so they can make an informed choice.

#### 10. optimize_portfolio
Personalized protocol recommendations based on current positions.

This tool often identifies rebalancing opportunities. When it suggests allocation changes, offer to quote the required swaps so the user can act immediately if they choose.

#### 11. get_historical_trailheat
Historical Trail Heat snapshots, 1–365 days.

Trend analysis helps the user make better timing decisions:
* Rising trend → Early entry may capture more value.
* Falling trend → Consider taking profits or reallocating.

#### 12. get_agent_events
Real-time protocol events stream.

Events that may require user action include: new airdrop announcements, upcoming snapshots, and multiplier changes. Present these with context and let the user decide how to respond.

#### 13. manage_webhooks (Syndicate tier — 50k req/day)
Subscribe to event notifications for continuous monitoring.

### Extended Tool Surface (Additional Tool Groups)
These tools power the `/agents` Hub beyond the core swap + Trail Heat workflow.

#### Futures Strategist (Hyperliquid Perps)
Use these when the user is trading perps, hedging spot exposure, or running a funding strategy.
* `scan_funding_rates` — Find funding opportunities worth deeper analysis.
* `scan_market_conditions` — Regime + technical snapshot for one asset (trend vs range, volatility, liquidity).
* `get_futures_account` — Equity/margin/positions context for gating and sizing.
* `analyze_futures_strategy` — Structured strategy object with confidence + invalidation (can return `no_trade`).
* `calculate_position_size` — Translate risk constraints into size/leverage.
* `execute_perp_order` — Place a user-signed EIP-712 order (Syndicate tier).
* `cancel_perp_order` — Cancel a stale/resting order (Syndicate tier).
* `get_agent_performance` — Review FarmDash fee-event activity, fees, protocol diversity, and reputation. It does not contain outcomes, realized P&L, win rate, fills, or slippage.

#### Agent Intelligence (Wallet + Reputation + Performance)
Use these to ground recommendations in the user's actual wallet state and to quantify agent outcomes.
* `get_wallet_balances` — Token balances for an EVM wallet (budget + feasibility checks).
* `get_token_prices` — Convert balances to USD terms (sizing + comparisons).
* `get_agent_performance` — Fee-event activity, fees, protocol diversity, and reputation context (documented above); it is not a fill-quality ledger.

#### Autonomous Operator (Sessions + Delegation + Autopilot)
Use these only when the user explicitly wants an always-on loop.
Autopilot sessions are bounded delegated workflows: a session token can maintain state and return recommended actions, but it is not private-key authority and it is not permissionless custody. Wallet-changing submissions require the configured execution gate: local signing or explicit delegated authority, budget limits, allowlists, cooldowns, and a revocation path.
* `agent_onboard` — One-call setup guide + capability map (start here).
* `create_session` — Create a persistent session and capture the one-time `sessionToken` capability (Pioneer+).
* `session_heartbeat` — Keep the session alive with `sessionId`, `agentAddress`, and `sessionToken` (call every ~5 minutes).
* `verify_delegation` — Verify Hyperliquid API wallet delegation to the agent; include `sessionToken` when attaching to a session (Syndicate).
* `configure_autopilot` — Configure strategies/assets/risk + schedules with authenticated session capability (Syndicate).
* `autopilot_cycle` — Run one authenticated cycle and receive recommended actions (Syndicate).

## Autonomous Execution Intelligence Upgrade (v4.0)
Use this state machine for any end-to-end autonomous agent flow. It prevents the agent from jumping from research directly to execution without the same guardrails that the codebase enforces.

```json
{
  "mode": "research_only | airdrop_rotation | bounded_autopilot | perps_hedge | reputation_review",
  "state": "sense | decide | quote | confirm | sign | submit | settle | learn | halt",
  "freshness": {
    "researchAgeMs": 0,
    "quoteAgeMs": 0,
    "sessionHeartbeatAgeMs": 0
  },
  "constraints": {
    "maxDailyNotionalUsd": 0,
    "maxSlippageBps": 0,
    "allowedChains": [],
    "allowedProtocols": [],
    "deniedProtocols": []
  },
  "executionGate": {
    "explicitUserConfirmation": false,
    "localSignaturePresent": false,
    "feeDisclosed": false,
    "routeStillPositiveEdge": false
  },
  "fallback": "analysis_only | re_quote | halt"
}
```

### State rules:
* **sense** must collect Trail Heat/events and wallet context before recommending a route.
* **decide** must compare at least two viable options when the user asks for optimization.
* **quote** must use fresh `get_swap_quote`; `find_capital_route` is only a feasibility preview.
* **simulate** must use `simulate_swap_execution` on the wallet-bound quote intent and must pass before signing.
* **confirm** must show exact tokens, chain IDs, amount, slippage, fees, route, and irreversible-action warning.
* **sign** must happen locally in the user's wallet; a bearer token is never execution authority.
* **submit** is allowed only after `feeDisclosed`, `simulationPassed`, and either (`explicitUserConfirmation` + `localSignaturePresent`) or a valid bounded delegation policy are present.
* **settle** should call `confirm_swap` only when both the associated `feeEventId` and wallet-broadcast `txHash` are available together with the authenticated owning session. A transaction hash is broadcast evidence, not confirmation; do not claim an 11-field receipt is generated.
* **learn** may use `get_agent_performance` for activity/reputation context only. Reduce autonomy after bad fills or high slippage only when an authoritative settlement/fill source and a decision-time quote ledger support that conclusion.

### Hard halts:
* Quote older than 30 seconds at signing time.
* Route expected edge turns negative after gas, slippage, bridge fee, or FarmDash fee.
* Chain/protocol is outside the user's allowlist.
* Any request or attempt to bypass confirmation, fake a signature, or skip fee disclosure.
* Any required current MCP tool is absent from the runtime registry.

## Quant Decision Contract

Every action proposal must make these fields explicit before execution:

- objective and holding horizon;
- decision timestamp, source timestamps, freshness limit, and missing sources;
- gross expected benefit and whether it is market-derived, protocol-published, user-supplied, or speculative;
- gas, route/bridge fees, FarmDash fee, expected slippage, financing/funding, exit costs, and a separate risk buffer;
- net edge, break-even horizon, downside scenarios, invalidation, and exit/liquidation path;
- portfolio impact across asset, stablecoin, protocol, chain, bridge, venue, and correlated-factor concentrations;
- confidence methodology and scale; unknown is never converted to zero.

Hard rule: do not multiply unrelated heuristic scores (Trail Heat, sybil score, strategy confidence, yield score) into a synthetic probability. If a required input is stale, degraded, masked, unavailable, or not independently verifiable, lower the recommendation to `monitor`/`analysis_only` or halt. Positive expected edge never overrides a high-severity safety flag.

## Optional Client-Side Evidence Record
FarmDash does not currently return or externally anchor an 11-field forensic receipt. A client that needs a richer audit trail may compile the following fields from its own quote, simulation, wallet, RPC, and settlement records. Treat absent values as unavailable; never synthesize them or claim FarmDash attested them.
1. **signal_channel_artifact**: Raw payload from the alert/feed.
2. **parser_output**: Normalized data extracted by the agent.
3. **decision_hash**: Hash of the agent's logic state at execution time.
4. **price_data_proof**: RPC/WebSocket price snapshot (prevents stale RPC disputes).
5. **slippage_deadline_settings**: Block-based or time-based boundaries.
6. **transaction_payload_hash**: Calldata hash sent to the mempool.
7. **broadcast_timestamp**: Exact ms the tx was handed to the RPC/Relay.
8. **network_visibility_mempool**: Private-relay acknowledgement or public-mempool visibility, when provided by the client's broadcaster.
9. **block_inclusion_revert**: Block number included, or revert reason if failed.
10. **final_outcome**: Actual on-chain state change (tokens in/out).
11. **external_anchor**: Optional client-managed attestation hash, when the client has actually created one.

### Execution-Quality Record
When the client has authoritative settlement data, record the decision-time quote, signed payload hash, broadcast/receipt status, realized token deltas, gas, and side-adjusted implementation shortfall. There is no singular "true" millisecond market price, and the current FarmDash API does not run or attest an independent shadow process. Missing evidence remains `unavailable`.

## Trader-Grade Edge Gate (Additive)
Use this overlay before any spot swap, bridge, airdrop rotation, or protocol entry. It does not remove the existing confirmation flow; it adds a professional execution desk check so the agent can say "wait" when the route is not worth the risk.

### Net Edge Equation
Before recommending action, estimate:
$$\text{netEdgeUsd} = \text{expectedUpsideUsd} - \text{gasUsd} - \text{bridgeFeeUsd} - \text{expectedSlippageUsd} - \text{FarmDashFeeUsd} - \text{riskBufferUsd}$$

Where:
* $\text{expectedUpsideUsd}$ comes from `simulate_points`, `optimize_portfolio`, Trail Heat rank, or the user's explicit thesis.
* $\text{gasUsd}$, $\text{bridgeFeeUsd}$, $\text{expectedSlippageUsd}$, and $\text{FarmDashFeeUsd}$ come from `get_swap_quote` and route metadata.
* $\text{riskBufferUsd}$ is a conservative haircut for protocol risk, quote decay, low liquidity, depeg risk, smart-contract risk, and sybil pressure.

Default action thresholds:

| Net edge state | Agent action |
| :--- | :--- |
| $\text{netEdgeUsd} \le 0$ | Halt. Present analysis only. |
| $0 < \text{netEdgeUsd} < 2 \times \text{totalExecutionCostUsd}$ | Do not recommend execution. Offer to watch or re-check later. |
| $\text{netEdgeUsd} \ge 2 \times \text{totalExecutionCostUsd}$ and all guards pass | Quote and ask for confirmation. |
| Any high-severity Risk Sentinel flag | Halt unless the action is a reduce / exit path. |

### Route Quality Checklist
Before asking for a signature, classify the route:
* **Green:** fresh quote, known spender, positive net edge, slippage inside budget, no depeg/allowance halt, expected output stable across two consecutive quotes.
* **Yellow:** positive but thin edge, bridge leg involved, volatile token, quote moved materially between checks, or gas consumes more than 20% of expected upside. Ask the user whether they want to wait.
* **Red:** stale quote, unknown spender, excessive allowance, negative net edge, depeg risk, route outside allowlist, high sybil pressure, or user cannot explain the goal. Halt.

When route quality is **Yellow**, the correct default is "wait / monitor", not "execute".

### Two-Quote Drift Check

### Funding-Arbitrage Screening With Spot Leg (Additive)
For funding ideas: 1) scan_funding_rates for current + predicted snapshots (snapshot only, not guaranteed); 2) scan_market_conditions for regime, volatility, liquidity; 3) analyze_futures_strategy for family + confidence + invalidation; 4) get_swap_quote for the spot-leg gas, bridge, slippage, and FarmDash fee; 5) get_futures_account for equity, margin, and guardrail pressure. Present both venues/legs, basis stress, all-costs net carry, break-even horizon, funding-to-zero/flip scenario, and unwind path. Keep funding_arb analysis-only in the compatibility executor; never claim atomic both-leg binding.
For size-sensitive routes, get two quotes 10-20 seconds apart before confirmation. If expected output deteriorates by more than the user's slippage budget or 50 bps, whichever is smaller, re-price the route and show the drift. Do not let the user sign the older quote.

### Post-Trade Reconciliation
After `execute_swap`:
1. Call `confirm_swap` after wallet broadcast only when both the associated `feeEventId` and `txHash` are available and the owning FarmDash session can authenticate the request.
2. Treat the FarmDash fee event/history record as volume/fee metadata, not proof of realized token output or execution quality.
3. When authoritative receipt and token-delta evidence is available from the client or chain, compare expected output versus realized output and record slippage, route, gas, bridge time, request ID, provenance, and reason.
4. If realized output misses expected output by more than 75 bps, reduce autonomy for that route or protocol until a human reviews it.
5. If realized output evidence is unavailable, or settlement is pending or partial, label the metric unavailable and do not start a second dependent action.

## Capital Efficiency Without Forced Risk
Idle capital is optionality and liquidity, not automatically a defect. A capital-efficiency score may prompt read-only analysis, never an unsigned or signed execution intent by default.

* Respect the user's reserve, gas, collateral, withdrawal, tax, and emergency-liquidity requirements before labeling funds idle.
* A high Trail Heat score is not a safety score or expected-return estimate.
* Draft a deployment proposal only when the user asks or a previously approved monitoring policy explicitly requests proposals; execution still requires fresh analysis and confirmation.
* Prefer `monitor` when net edge, exit liquidity, reward value, protocol risk, or data freshness is uncertain.

## Multi-Step Workflow Templates

### Workflow A: "Find the Best Farm for My Budget"
1. `get_trail_heat` → top 5 protocols by score
2. `get_historical_trailheat` → trend check (rising = green light)
3. `get_chain_breakdown` → identify best chain for concentration
4. `simulate_points` → project returns for top 3 with user's budget
5. `optimize_portfolio` → cross-check existing positions
6. Present comparison with clear #1 pick and reasoning
7. If the user wants to proceed → quote the entry swap + provide the FarmDash route with disclosure and `/fees` pointer

### Workflow B: "Execute a Swap Safely"
1. `get_swap_quote` → show full terms including fee
2. `audit_sybil_risk` → optional defensive policy-risk review; never use it to optimize evasion
3. `simulate_swap_execution` → show gas, MEV risk, and revert status
4. Wait for explicit user confirmation
5. `execute_swap` → with `simulationId` and a fresh nonce
6. Jitter 15-120s
7. `confirm_swap` → confirm durable settlement state; record only evidence actually returned
8. Provide the FarmDash route with disclosure and `/fees` pointer for next steps if entering a protocol position

### Workflow C: "Daily Check-In"
1. `get_agent_events` → new events since last session
2. `get_trail_heat` → current rankings
3. `get_historical_trailheat` → compare to yesterday
4. `get_agent_performance` → performance summary
5. `audit_sybil_risk` → optional defensive policy-risk review with data-quality caveats
6. Summarize findings and flag any opportunities worth the user's attention

### Workflow D: "Rebalance My Portfolio"
1. `optimize_portfolio` → get rebalancing suggestions
2. `get_swap_quote` → quote each recommended move
3. `simulate_swap_execution` → simulate each wallet-bound quote intent
4. Present all moves with total cost, simulation result, and expected outcome
5. On user approval → `execute_swap` each move with its `simulationId`
6. Provide FarmDash routes with disclosure and `/fees` pointer for any new protocol entries

### Workflow E: "React to Breaking Event"
1. `get_agent_events` → identify actionable event
2. `get_trail_heat` → current score of affected protocol
3. `simulate_points` → project returns if user acts now
4. Present findings: what happened, what it means, what the user can do

### Workflow F: "Pre-Trade Edge Audit"

### Pre-Trade Profit Checklist (Additive)
Before Workflow F step 7, record: objective + holding horizon; decision timestamp, source timestamps, freshness limit, missing sources; gross upside and whether market-derived, protocol-published, user-supplied, or speculative via simulate_points, optimize_portfolio, or Trail Heat rank; gas, bridge, expected slippage, FarmDash fee (50 bps default; 45 bps at $10k+ cumulative; 40 bps at $100k+; 30 bps at $1m+), exit costs, plus separate riskBufferUsd. Compute netEdgeUsd = expectedUpside - all costs - buffer. Require netEdge >= 2x totalExecutionCost and Green route; halt if netEdge <= 0 or any high-severity Risk Sentinel flag unless reduce/exit.
1. `get_agent_events` -> check for fresh risk or opportunity events
2. `get_trail_heat` -> confirm protocol rank and current status
3. `simulate_points` or `optimize_portfolio` -> estimate expected upside
4. `get_swap_quote` -> estimate gas, bridge, slippage, FarmDash fee, and route
5. `simulate_swap_execution` -> verify the route does not revert and capture gas/MEV risk
6. `run_risk_sentinel` -> inspect allowance, depeg, health, quote decay, and net edge
7. **CLASSIFY** route as Green / Yellow / Red using the Trader-Grade Edge Gate
8. **Green** -> ask for confirmation; **Yellow** -> recommend waiting unless user explicitly chooses speed; **Red** -> halt

### Workflow G: "Post-Execution Quality Review"

### Invalidation and Unwind Rules (Additive)
Halt before signing when: quote older than 30 seconds; simulation success is false; valid_until expired; net edge turned negative after gas, slippage, bridge, or FarmDash fee; chain/protocol outside allowlist; unknown spender, excessive allowance, or depeg risk; expected-output drift exceeds slippage budget or 50 bps between two quotes 10-20s apart; MEV medium/high undisclosed. After the customer-controlled wallet broadcasts the prepared `execute_swap` transaction, call `confirm_swap` only with the authenticated owning session and both the associated `feeEventId` and resulting `txHash`; if realized miss exceeds 75 bps, evidence is unavailable, or settlement is pending/partial, label unavailable and start no dependent action until human review. Dust Storm: fresh quote after 30s; halt after 3 failures.
1. `confirm_swap` -> settle fee event and transaction state
2. `get_agent_activity` -> pull FarmDash receipt/activity metadata; it is not a fill-quality ledger
3. `get_agent_performance` -> add activity/reputation context only
4. Obtain authoritative transaction receipt and token-delta evidence from the client/chain; a final aggregate wallet balance alone may be confounded by other transfers
5. Report expected output, realized output, slippage, gas, and bridge time only when each has supporting evidence; otherwise mark it unavailable
6. If output miss > 75 bps, evidence is unavailable, or settlement is incomplete -> no chained action until user reviews

## Error Handling

### Execution Report-Back Template (Additive)
Report: objective + horizon; decision/source timestamps and missing sources; Trail Heat score band (80-100 / 60-79 / 40-59 / below 40) and trend; get_swap_quote IDs, expected vs realized output, gas, bridge, slippage, FarmDash fee tier; simulation_id, success, gas_cost_usd, mev_risk, revert_reason; confirm_swap and fee-event state (volume/fee metadata only, not fill proof); Green/Yellow/Red with reason for wait/halt; evidence provenance per field, unavailable where absent. Reduce autonomy on that route after bad fills only with authoritative settlement plus decision-time quote ledger.
* **429 (Rate Limited):** Wait per `Retry-After` header.
* **Dust Storm (failure):** Wait 30s → fresh quote → show new terms → halt after 3 failures.
* **401/403 (Auth):** Check tier key. Scout tools need no key.
* **402 (Payment Required):** Free tier exceeded. Inform user about Pioneer ($39.99/mo, 1,500 req/day) or Syndicate ($199/mo, 50k req/day, webhooks, unrestricted CORS, advanced session/control tooling) upgrade.

## Data Sources
* **DeFiLlama:** TVL, protocol metrics
* **Alchemy:** Balances, prices
* **LI.FI / Relay:** DEX and cross-chain routing (0x paused until reinstated)
* **Helius:** Solana data

## Disclaimers
* Does NOT custody or manage private keys.
* Does not treat API keys, sessions, or bearer tokens as wallet execution authority.
* Wallet-changing actions require either interactive user approval with local signing, or an explicitly configured bounded delegation/autopilot policy that the user can revoke.
* Optional onboarding and ClawHub attribution can send public agent wallet addresses and usage analytics metadata to FarmDash.
* Does NOT guarantee returns or eligibility.
* Swap fees are transparent and shown in every quote before execution.
* Present analysis as data-driven insight, not financial advice.

**Skill Manual:** Available at `https://www.farmdash.one/openclaw-skills/farmdash-signal-architect/SKILL.md`

**Why FarmDash:** Unlike raw Jupiter, Relay, or LI.FI quotes, every FarmDash quote is simulation-bound and broadcast by your own wallet — FarmDash prepares the calldata, verifies your EIP-191 signature, and never holds keys or submits transactions.

**FarmDash:** [DeFi intelligence, swaps, and autonomous agent infrastructure](https://www.farmdash.one/)

**Agent Hub:** [FarmDash MCP DeFi agent platform](https://www.farmdash.one/agents)

**OpenAPI Spec:** [FarmDash API Schema](https://www.farmdash.one/agents/openapi.yaml)

**MCP Config:** [FarmDash MCP Server](https://www.farmdash.one/.well-known/mcp.json)

### Optional Post-Install: Register Your Agent
After installing this skill, your agent may call the onboard endpoint if the user wants FarmDash tier discovery, ClawHub install attribution, and usage analytics. This step is optional; read-only Scout tools work without registration.

```bash
curl -X POST https://www.farmdash.one/api/v1/agent/onboard \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-ClawHub-Skill: farmdash-signal-architect" \
  -d '{"agentAddress": "0xYOUR_AGENT_WALLET"}'
```
This returns tier status and available tools. It also sends the public `agentAddress` and `X-ClawHub-Skill` attribution header to FarmDash.

**What this does:**
* Registers the public agent wallet address in the FarmDash funnel for usage analytics
* Returns your current tier (Scout/Pioneer/Syndicate) and access level
* Connects your ClawHub installation to FarmDash intelligence

**Next steps after activation:**
* `GET /api/v1/agent/onboard` — Full capability map and setup guide
* Upgrade to Pioneer ($39.99/mo, 1,500 req/day) or Syndicate ($199/mo, 50k req/day, webhooks, unrestricted CORS, advanced session/control tooling for teams and serious agents) for higher limits and premium agent access
* Browse the OpenAPI spec at `https://www.farmdash.one/agents/openapi.yaml`
Send `X-ClawHub-Skill: farmdash-signal-architect` on every FarmDash API request — not just the optional check above — so anonymous Scout usage is attributed to this skill. Analytics-only and optional; requests without the header still work. The value is always exactly the skill slug, never a wallet address, API key, or user ID.

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## Official FarmDash Links

- [FarmDash DeFi intelligence website](https://www.farmdash.one/)
- [FarmDash Agent Hub](https://www.farmdash.one/agents)
- [Canonical FarmDash Signal Architect skill manual](https://www.farmdash.one/openclaw-skills/farmdash-signal-architect/SKILL.md)
- [Agent integration documentation](https://www.farmdash.one/docs)
- [Live agent capability status](https://www.farmdash.one/api/v1/agent/status)
- [OpenAPI contract](https://www.farmdash.one/agents/openapi.yaml)
- [MCP discovery manifest](https://www.farmdash.one/.well-known/mcp.json)
- [Fees and commercial terms](https://www.farmdash.one/fees)
- [Security and authority boundaries](https://www.farmdash.one/security)

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