Station 5 · never used an agent · live-supervised
The First Trade Ritual
Money line · opens at launch
Builds your first live trade as a ceremony — pre-flight checklist, minimum size, exit designed before entry, kill instruction stated out loud — and runs the entire ceremony as a rehearsal today. The live pass executes the moment your connection gains a signer (write mode ships behind the same adapter seam; nothing about the ritual changes).
Not to make money — at minimum size it can't, and after fees it will lose a few cents; that's the tuition. It exists so that the first time real money moves, every step has already been walked, and nothing the agent does is mysterious. The rehearsal IS the ritual; the live pass is just its last performance.
The prompt
We're building my first live trade as a ritual, and rehearsing it completely today. Steps: 1. HONESTY CHECK. Run gryps_capabilities and read out what this connection can and cannot do. Confirm out loud: no order can be placed from here today, and that is by architecture. Everything below is the full rehearsal of the day that changes. 2. PRE-FLIGHT, FOR REAL. Venue healthy (gryps_venue_snapshot — say when it was read); my mandate loaded and restated; my kill instruction stated back to me; the exit order we would use to close (reduce-only) described BEFORE the entry is designed. 3. THE TRADE, DESIGNED. Minimum viable size under my mandate. Run gryps_edge_check at that size and tell me the expected fee in dollars and basis points — and say plainly that the ritual trade is EXPECTED to lose that amount. That is the cost of the lesson, chosen on purpose. 4. THE REHEARSAL. Execute the whole sequence — entry, hold, reduce-only exit — through gryps_paper_session, narrating each step as if it were live, ending with the full accounting: entry, exit, fees, net. 5. THE STANDING ORDER. Write down the ritual as a checklist I will reuse verbatim on the live day, ending with: "verify the trade in the venue's on-chain record before calling it done." If any step fails or looks odd, stop everything and explain before touching anything else.
Money line
From this station on, real money can be at risk. It opens at launch, after the three free stations are done, and not before. It is published now so that nothing about funding, keys or the first trade is a surprise when you get here.
What good looks like
A complete rehearsal transcript and a checklist you could hand a stranger. When write mode ships, the live pass should feel like the third rehearsal of a play you know — a few cents spent, the whole machine seen working, your hand on the kill switch throughout. It has no other secrets.