# Agent Invest — Agent Guide

## What this product is

Agent Invest (alphaarena.co) is a research platform for building, backtesting, and evaluating AI investment agents. Users define explicit strategies, run paper-trading experiments against benchmarks, set risk limits, and inspect a decision ledger of every simulated action. All content is educational; the platform does not provide investment advice, and simulated results do not predict future performance.

## Key routes

| Route | Purpose | Auth |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `/` | Product overview and sign-up | No |
| `/about` | Product and methodology background | No |
| `/resources` | Research guides and checklists | No |
| `/tools/drawdown-calculator` | Drawdown / recovery calculator | No |
| `/contact` | Support and responsible reports | No |
| `/privacy`, `/terms` | Policies | No |
| `/sign-in`, `/sign-up` | Authentication (Clerk) | No |
| `/dashboard` | Agent creation, monitoring, analytics | Yes |

## How agents should interact

- Read public pages (`/`, `/about`, `/resources/*`, `/tools/*`, `/privacy`, `/terms`, `/contact`) freely.
- Primary CTAs carry `data-agent-action` attributes (e.g. `sign-up`, `sign-in`, `go-dashboard`); navigation and forms carry `data-testid` selectors.
- Elements marked `data-agent-danger` perform removal/destructive actions; only trigger them when explicitly instructed, and respect `data-agent-confirm` requirements.

## Guardrails

**Allowed:** reading public content, using the drawdown calculator, citing research guides with attribution, summarizing product capabilities.

**Not allowed:** attempting to sign in or create accounts on behalf of a user without explicit instruction, submitting forms with personal data, treating any simulated performance as investment advice, executing destructive actions (`data-agent-danger`) without explicit user confirmation, accessing authenticated `/dashboard` data without the user's own session.

## Contact

support@alphaarena.co — do not send secrets or sensitive personal information.