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Combos, Agents, and What Stays Out of engine.ts

GitHub: https://github.com/abrownfox0/abrownfox001-twap60-prediction-trigger-system

YouTube walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzhugRL6BV4

Live profile: https://polymarket.com/@abrownfox001

Parts 2–3 were the 5m core: TWAP60 hygiene and delay/quota execution.

Part 4 is the noise around that core. Mid-September Polymarket has more products, more APIs, and more builder programs. Most of that should never touch the BTC 5-minute loop.

1. New Surface ≠ New Core

Surface What it is Put it in engine.ts?
Combos (US, public since late August) 2–10 leg parlay, RFQ not CLOB No
Exa Connect / agent paths tools can query and route Client only
Builder pitch / grant programs distribution No
Unified gateway / Data API / Gamma infra Yes, as adapters
RTDS live 60s TWAP Yes
Perps / passkeys / mobile UX adjacent product No

The test is simple: does this change the official 5m series, the 150ms taker gate, or the scratch loop?

If not, it is another process.

2. Combos Are a Different Machine

Combos are one position across several markets. They pay only if every leg wins. Pricing is quote-request, not a resting 5m book.

That implies:

  • short quote windows
  • multi-leg residual risk
  • different capital rules
  • no TWAP60 BTC path as the native state variable

Reusing 5m scratch timers on an RFQ parlay is how you create a third undocumented product.

If I ever touch Combos, it will be a separate adapter with a separate cap. Not a venue=combo flag.

3. Agents Are Clients

Polymarket on Exa Connect and similar agent wiring means more wrappers can read markets and talk about placing orders.

Expected effects:

  • more naive “BTC green → buy Up” flow
  • more rate-limit pressure
  • more copy-shaped traffic
  • zero free alpha

An agent may call the engine.

The engine must not become “whatever the agent just said.”

Keep risk caps, freshness checks, and the 45–55¢ gate inside the specialist process. Tooling sits outside.

4. Builder Noise Is Distribution

Pitch days and grant programs are useful if you are shipping a product.

They do not change:

  • what a 5m market settles on
  • whether your open pin matches close
  • whether a 150ms delay wrecked fill quality
  • whether the activity tab still looks like BTC / 5m / 50¢ / later sells

Do not confuse ecosystem attention with a reason to spray new assets.

5. Infra That Does Belong

These stay in the 5m stack:

  • RTDS for TWAP60
  • CLOB v2 for the 5m book
  • Gamma slug discovery
  • Data API reconciliation
  • Retry-After
  • idempotent orders
  • reconnect without double-sends

September API/CLOB blips are why reconciliation is production, not a nice-to-have.

If positions in memory disagree with Data API, halt. Do not “sync later” while still quoting scratches.

6. The Boundary I Want

Risk + logger
  ├─ 5m BTC adapter     → TWAP60 + CLOB     (live)
  ├─ verify adapter     → Gamma + Data API  (live)
  ├─ agent connector    → read-only / queued (optional)
  └─ Combos RFQ adapter → separate repo      (research only)
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Share kill switch and daily loss.

Do not share P(up) weights, 5m timers, or RFQ quote logic.

7. Expected Tech Change on This Layer

  • keep Combos out of the Windows trial path
  • treat agent APIs as untrusted clients
  • add Data API position diffs to the slot log
  • do not add SOL/ETH “because Combos volume exists”
  • do not spend October rewriting the 5m engine into a platform SDK

The scarce object is still a calibrated 5-minute BTC read. New endpoints do not replace it.

8. What Part 5 Covers

The September runbook for @abrownfox001: what is live, what is being retuned after the 150ms delay, how to read the public account, and what I will not ship this month.

Links

Not financial advice. Product surfaces move — confirm live docs.

If you have more questions, please feel free to contact me at any time: https://t.me/abrownfox001

My Polymarket Activity: https://polymarket.com/@abrownfox001?tab=activity

#Polymarket #Combos #TWAP #TradingBot #BTC #AlgoTrading #PredictionMarkets
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