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The wedge

Every trading agent tells you it’s winning. Gecko tells you when it’s wrong. Gecko is a verification layer that sits above any trading agent:
  • Gates every order against a pre-trade safety check (the market-temperature read, price-impact caps, deny-default rules).
  • Monitors every yield position against a hurdle rate and a liquidation buffer — and acts before a position bleeds.
  • Grades strategies with default-REJECT backtest rigor (CPCV, PBO, Deflated Sharpe). An honest null is a valid, cheap outcome.
The trading bot and the profit vault you’ll see in these docs are proof artifacts — they exist to demonstrate the verification layer on live capital. The product is the layer, not the bot.

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Why it matters

The failure mode the product exists to fix: an agent that looks profitable on an in-sample backtest, deployed without rigor, that quietly loses money in chop or gets liquidated on a leverage leg. Gecko is the adult in the room — the part that says no when the edge isn’t real.

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How it’s built

  • Non-custodial. Signing happens in the OKX Agentic Wallet TEE (keys never leave the enclave) or a scoped embedded wallet. Gecko never holds your private key.
  • Pay-as-you-go. Verdicts are priced per call via x402. Self-hosting is free.
  • Local-first. Run the agent on your own machine; connect the app as a control surface.

Quickstart

Install and connect an agent.

Concepts

Oracle vs bot, custody, hurdle, buffer.