Reaper Desk — multi-agent trading floorActive
A paper-trading research desk staffed by named agents: an analyst drops opportunity briefs, a statistician blends a deterministic score with an LLM verdict, an auditor approves, an executor manages exits. Humans hold the only switch to live money.
Reaper started as a single-signal options bot. Reaper Desk is what it became: a small team of agents with separated duties, built to answer a research question. Can a language model add judgment to a quantitative pipeline without being allowed to act on its own?
The desk
- Iris (analyst) publishes JSON opportunity briefs from her own container.
- Moira (statistician) computes a deterministic quant score, then asks a cloud model for a reasoning verdict. If the model is unreachable, she degrades to pure quant and says so.
- Atropos (approval and audit) independently checks every proposed trade against limits.
- Charon (execution) places and manages exits.
- Hestia (portfolio steward) runs a separate, buy-only allocation with drift tracking.
Hand-offs are files on a shared bus, which is how Athena renders the desk as a live diagram with firing edges between agents.
Safety posture
The desk trades paper by default. Arming live mode is a manual, deliberate step outside the agents' reach, and the bot's heartbeat, mode, and errors are surfaced on the Athena status board so a stalled or misbehaving process is visible within minutes. Strategy internals are not published; the orchestration pattern is.