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My AI agent's trade broke the limit. The refusal told it what would fit.

edycutjong6d agoCodex CLI7/10

A builder used Codex CLI with an MCP guardrail to cap a perps trade at $25; after the refusal the agent resized its BTC short and the order filled onchain on Somnia testnet.

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    My LLM trading agent says "skip" almost every time. I added a second agent with looser rules and it still said skip 23 out of 23

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