Trader-MCP compatibility note

This note is for Hermes-MCP developers.

Trader taxonomy expected by Hermes

Canonical strategy set currently being stabilized:

grid
Exposure Protector (defensive exposure rebalancer)
trend_follower
idle
defensive
mean_reversion
breakout
event_driven

Trader contract locations

Primary contract and runtime docs live in trader-mcp/:

trader-mcp/Hermes_Trader_Contract_v0.1.md
trader-mcp/Strategy_Contract.md
trader-mcp/Strategy_Runtime.md
trader-mcp/MCP_SURFACE_PROPOSAL.md
trader-mcp/TODO.md

Hermes-facing data

Hermes should read strategy snapshots via report(). Important fields:

identity
control
fit
position
state
assessment
execution

Hermes control path

Hermes should use:

set_strategy_policy() for high-level policy (risk_posture, priority)
control_strategy() for lifecycle (start, stop, pause, resume, reconcile)

Policies are applied on reconcile and instance creation.