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# risk cage

The worm can want a step that would be stupid in a market. The cage exists so a twitch does not become a hole.

The cage is not the worm. Take it away and you still have a nervous system. You just have an unsafe experiment.

## What it checks

| Check       | What it does                                                                            |
| ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Allowlist   | Extremely risky tokens never become smells or orders                                    |
| Max size    | Urgency from the decoder is clipped to a cap                                            |
| Cooldown    | Two crawls cannot stack on top of each other in the same breath                         |
| Book depth  | If the size would be the book, the order dies                                           |
| Side sanity | No buy when there is nothing to buy with. No sell when the wallet is empty of that name |
| Flip-flop   | Forward and reverse winning in alternation get treated as pause                         |

Each block writes a reason. Reasons show up in the [audit trail](/explore-wormbrain/04-lab/audit.md).

## What it does not do

* It does not look at Twitter.
* It does not check whether you, personally, are having a good day.
* It does not "fix" a losing week by forcing a hero trade.
* It does not rewrite command-cell voltages.

If the cage is quiet and the wallet is quiet, the animal paused. If the cage is loud and the wallet is quiet, the animal tried and got caught.

## Paper and live

Training uses paper fills: fake fee, fake slip, real decoder. Live FOMO prints use the same checks with real fees and a smaller cap.

{% hint style="danger" %}
The cage is protection for the experiment. It is not protection for anyone copying the wallet. Your account is not inside these rules.
{% endhint %}

## Why publish this

Otherwise "the worm traded" and "a person clicked" look the same on FOMO. The cage is how you tell them apart. A blocked intent with a reason is the project working. A mystery print with no row behind it is the project failing.


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