Concepts
Concepts
The mental model — four faces, four statements, one Envelope, and evidence.
kestrel.markets manages what stays scarce in a world of abundant intelligence — authority, licensed data, presence, deterministic execution, and evidence — and deliberately nothing else. A handful of concepts carry the whole platform.
The four faces
HTTP+SSE is canonical; SDK, CLI, and MCP are equal projections.
The four statements
View, Wake, Plan, Grade — the Kestrel language.
Authority
One Envelope, scope-gated signers, the pod tree.
Evidence
Blotters, Grades, and replay-stability — the black-box recorder.
First principles
- Brains stay outside. The platform hosts deterministic reflexes and evidence, never an agent's intelligence. The agent is external and replaceable.
- Proof before account. An agent may discover, build, and prove value before a human signs up or pays.
- Derived, not raw. Percepts, grades, and fair values are derived works; raw-feed redistribution stays with licensed vendors.
- Impersonal by default. No "recommended for your book" surface.
- BYO-plan + BYO-broker for live, always. The platform never supplies plans, never holds trading capital, never exercises discretion.