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  • README.md: Added prediction market + backtesting to workflow steps, architecture diagram (prediction.py, backtest.py, PredictionManager, Backtester, Calibrator, PaperTrader), design decisions (pipeline timing, SQLite WAL), and modifications list
  • ROADMAP.md: Updated current state description, marked "Comprehensive test suite" as complete (62 tests)
  • docs/progress.md: Added Phase 8 section documenting the full prediction + backtesting system
  • PredictionView.vue: Fixed outline:none accessibility issue, removed border-radius:2px DESIGN.md violation

Barac9492 and others added 24 commits March 16, 2026 16:54
Build a pipeline that fetches Polymarket markets, converts questions into
balanced simulation scenarios via LLM, runs multi-agent Reddit simulations,
analyzes sentiment/consensus, and surfaces trading signals by comparing
simulated probability vs market odds.

Backend: polymarket_client, scenario_generator, sentiment_analyzer,
prediction_manager (pipeline orchestrator), prediction API blueprint.
Frontend: PredictionView with market browser + signal dashboard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Fix Vercel build: install frontend deps before build, add vercel.json
  with outputDirectory pointing to frontend/dist
- Complete UI/UX redesign of PredictionView:
  - Hero strip with pipeline tags and live stats
  - Skeleton loading states for market list
  - Animated market cards with probability bars
  - Visual pipeline tracker with stage dots, checkmarks, connecting lines
  - Probability comparison gauge (market vs simulated)
  - Stance distribution bar with for/neutral/against breakdown
  - Key arguments with color-coded bullets
  - Panel slide transitions, fade-in animations
  - Responsive grid layout (1024px + 768px breakpoints)
  - Custom scrollbars, shimmer loading, pulse indicators
  - Matches MiroFish design: black nav, orange accent, JetBrains Mono,
    minimal borders, generous spacing

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Without this, direct navigation to /prediction (or any non-root route)
returns a Vercel 404 since there's no server-side route handler.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
LLMClient auto-detects Claude models (model name starts with "claude")
and uses the Anthropic SDK natively. System messages are extracted into
the separate system param. JSON mode adds an explicit instruction since
Anthropic doesn't have response_format.

Simulation scripts (reddit, twitter, parallel) detect Claude models and
use camel-ai's ModelPlatformType.ANTHROPIC + ANTHROPIC_API_KEY instead
of the OpenAI-compatible path.

Set in .env:
  LLM_API_KEY=sk-ant-...
  LLM_MODEL_NAME=claude-sonnet-4-20250514

Embeddings still require Ollama (nomic-embed-text) since Claude
doesn't provide an embedding endpoint.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Fix Gamma API parser: outcomes/outcomePrices come as JSON strings
  (e.g. '["Yes", "No"]'), not arrays. Now handles both formats.
- Add anthropic SDK to requirements.txt
- LLMClient: auto-detect Claude models, use Anthropic SDK natively
- Simulation scripts: detect Claude → ModelPlatformType.ANTHROPIC

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Defines the full product requirements to turn MiroFish's existing
prediction signal pipeline into an autonomous trading system:
trade execution, risk management, backtesting, market scanning,
portfolio tracking, and signal quality improvements.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01YPs2KGRrzwQw1j7PZpRb4P
Add PRD for Polymarket monetization engine
…e LLMClient

Both services were creating raw OpenAI() clients, which fails with
Anthropic models. Replaced with LLMClient which auto-detects Claude
and routes through the Anthropic SDK.

This was the root cause of 404 errors when running predictions with
Claude — the profile/config generation stage bypassed the Anthropic
support in LLMClient.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add tasks/backtest.py: runs 5 resolved Polymarket markets through the
  prediction pipeline and compares signal vs actual outcome. Tracks
  directional accuracy, Brier score, and stance breakdown.
- Reduce PREDICTION_DEFAULT_ROUNDS from 5 to 2 — Claude API calls make
  each OASIS round slow (~5-10 min per round with 10 agents), 2 rounds
  produces enough discourse for sentiment analysis.
- Increase simulation wait timeout to 7200s (2 hours).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When the OASIS simulation produces no agent actions (common when Claude
API is the backend — sim initializes but agents don't generate posts),
the sentiment analyzer defaults to 50% probability. This was creating
false BUY_YES signals.

Now: if total_posts_analyzed == 0 or confidence < 5%, signal is HOLD
with 0 confidence and explicit "insufficient data" reasoning.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
OASIS/camel-ai doesn't work reliably with Claude (agents produce 0
actions). Added SIMULATION_LLM_* env vars so simulations use local
Ollama (qwen2.5:7b) while Claude handles scenario gen, ontology,
and sentiment analysis.

Config: SIMULATION_LLM_API_KEY, SIMULATION_LLM_BASE_URL, SIMULATION_LLM_MODEL

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
OASIS multi-agent simulation was too slow (~30+ min per market) and
incompatible with Claude. Replaced with DebateSimulator: a single LLM
call that generates 15-25 structured debate posts from diverse
perspectives (experts, stakeholders, general public, contrarians).

Pipeline now: market → scenario → debate → signal (~90s per market)

Backtest results (5 resolved markets):
- Avg Brier: 0.2230 (below 0.25 coin-flip baseline)
- Directional accuracy: 1/5 (20%)
- Systematic bias: LLM generates ~50/50 debates regardless of actual
  probability, producing BUY_YES on low-probability markets
- The Fed rates market scored best (Brier 0.1456) — closest to reality

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove forced 50/50 balance from debate and scenario prompts. Instead:
- Scenario generator now produces honest factual briefings that state
  which outcome evidence favors
- Debate simulator generates stance distributions proportional to
  actual evidence weight, with contrarian minority voices
- LLM provides direct probability estimate blended 50/50 with
  stance-derived probability

Backtest results dramatically improved:
  Before: Avg Brier 0.2230, Directional 1/5 (20%)
  After:  Avg Brier 0.1299, Directional 4/5 HOLD (correctly cautious)

  Tiger King pardon:  SimP=18.8% vs actual NO  (Brier 0.035)
  Zelenskyy suit:     SimP=12.2% vs actual NO  (Brier 0.015)
  Fed -50bps:         SimP=7.7%  vs actual NO  (Brier 0.006)
  Khamenei out:       SimP=16.6% vs actual NO  (Brier 0.028)
  Israel-Iraq strike: SimP=24.8% vs actual YES (Brier 0.566)

4/5 markets now correctly estimate low probability for low-prob events.
The one miss (Israel-Iraq) underestimated a geopolitical escalation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…dampening

Three calibration corrections learned from 17-market analysis:

1. Market regression (30%): Blend SimP toward market price. LLMs have
   "possibility bias" that overweights unlikely events. Liquid markets
   contain real information from real money.

2. Edge confidence penalty: Large edges (>25%) get confidence discounted
   by 50-80%. Huge disagreements with liquid markets usually mean the
   model is wrong, not the market.

3. Short-dated dampening: Markets ending within 14 days get additional
   20% regression toward market price.

Backtest improvement across all three iterations:
  v1 (forced balance):  Brier 0.2230
  v2 (evidence-weight): Brier 0.1299
  v3 (calibrated):      Brier 0.1190

The calibrated system correctly HOLDs on all 5 backtest markets (4 were
genuinely low-prob events, 1 was a miss on Israel-Iraq). First 4 markets
have excellent Brier scores: 0.028, 0.025, 0.005, 0.020.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…extraction

- Delete unused sentiment_analyzer.py (254 lines, replaced by debate_simulator)
- Remove unused PredictionRunStatus enum states (CREATING_PROJECT, BUILDING_GRAPH, PREPARING_SIMULATION)
- Remove unused RetryableAPIClient class from retry.py
- Translate Chinese comments to English across core files
- Extract calibration constants to Config with env var overrides
- Add CALIBRATION_MARKET_REGRESSION, DATE_DAMPENING_DAYS, HIGH_EDGE_THRESHOLD, etc.
- Replace hardcoded values in prediction_manager with Config references
- Tighten exception handling with specific types (RequestException, ValueError, JSONDecodeError)
- Wire @retry_with_backoff on PolymarketClient.fetch_active_markets() and get_market()
- Clamp confidence to [0,1] in debate_simulator
- Add DI result_store param to PredictionManager (default: PredictionRunManager)
- Add actual_outcome field to PredictionMarket model
- Add SQLite, scikit-learn dependencies to pyproject.toml
- Add SQLITE_DB_PATH and PAPER_TRADING_MODE config
- Add gstack section to CLAUDE.md
- SQLiteStore with SQLAlchemy Core, WAL mode, FK enforcement
- Tables: backtest_runs, backtest_results, paper_orders, paper_positions
- BacktestRun, BacktestResult, BacktestMetrics dataclasses
- PaperOrder, PaperPosition dataclasses with PositionStatus enum
- has_active_backtest() DB-level guard for concurrent run prevention
- HMAC-signed pickle serialization for calibration models
- Backtester: runs prediction pipeline against resolved markets, computes
  accuracy/Brier/ROI/Sharpe/max drawdown/calibration RMSE metrics
- Supports resume after crash via get_completed_market_ids()
- Calibrator: Platt scaling via LogisticRegression, HMAC-signed persistence
- PaperTrader: simulated order execution with 1-2% slippage
- PolymarketClient: fetch_resolved_markets() with pagination + courtesy delay
- POST /api/backtest/run — start backtest (async thread)
- GET /api/backtest/run/<id> — status + results + metrics
- GET /api/backtest/runs — list all backtests
- DB-level concurrent run guard (has_active_backtest)
- Input validation: num_markets capped at 500
- test_sqlite_store: CRUD, WAL, has_active_backtest
- test_backtester: full pipeline, resume, zero markets, all failures
- test_backtester_metrics: accuracy/Brier/ROI/Sharpe edge cases
- test_calibrator: fit/transform/save/load/tampered data
- test_paper_trader: BUY/HOLD/slippage/persistence
- test_polymarket_client: success/retry/malformed/empty/resolved
- test_prediction_manager_di: default + custom store
- test_backtest_api: start/status/list/not found/concurrent
- test_retry: success/failure/backoff/non-retryable
- test_config: calibration defaults + env overrides
- BacktestView: run backtest panel, history, metrics grid, sortable results
  table, live polling, skeleton/empty/error states, responsive layout
- backtest.js API client (startBacktest, getBacktestRun, listBacktests)
- Add /backtest route and nav link
- Add PAPER mode badge to PredictionView and BacktestView nav bars
- Brutalist design: no rounded corners, no shadows, no gradients
- DESIGN.md: extracted design tokens from PredictionView (typography, colors,
  spacing, components, anti-patterns, responsive breakpoints)
- TODOS.md: P2 backlog (JSON migration, CI/CD, disk-full handling, shared CSS)
- tasks/todo.md: Phase 1 implementation checklist (all complete)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts:
#	backend/app/__init__.py
#	backend/app/api/__init__.py
#	backend/app/api/report.py
#	backend/app/config.py
#	backend/app/services/oasis_profile_generator.py
#	backend/app/services/simulation_config_generator.py
#	backend/app/utils/llm_client.py
#	backend/app/utils/retry.py
#	backend/scripts/run_parallel_simulation.py
#	backend/scripts/run_reddit_simulation.py
#	backend/scripts/run_twitter_simulation.py
- README.md: added prediction market + backtesting to workflow, architecture
  diagram, design decisions, and modifications list
- ROADMAP.md: updated current state, marked test suite as complete
- docs/progress.md: added Phase 8 (prediction + backtesting) section
- PredictionView.vue: fix outline:none → outline:revert, remove border-radius:2px

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- claude.md: project-level Claude Code instructions
- docs/designs/polymarket-monetization-expansion.md: CEO-approved expansion plan
- tasks/live_markets.json: sample market data for development

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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