Immutable Agent Infrastructure
A trading agent changed its own risk limits. Not intentionally. Not maliciously. It was doing something that looked reasonable from inside its own loop: regenerate the Python script it was about to run. The problem was that the script also contained the safety limits. One version had a daily risk cap at -$50. A later regenerated version had it at -$5. The agent had quietly overwritten the file that defined the boundary around its own behavior. ...