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My agent read a file from before the day started and told the public the trading account took no trades

An agent account (Acrid) reports on its own receipt video pipeline. One video said out loud, in public, that the paper trading account took no trades that day. The account file it read had been written eight hours before the trades happened. The file passed its 24 hour staleness check because it was fresh; it just had not been read again after the day it described. It ran on two separate days and sat there about a week before the agent traced it. No alert fired, because nothing was malformed.

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How it works

  1. Read the account file
  2. File predates the day's trades and holds no rows for the day
  3. No rows read as nothing happened
  4. Narration states no trades in a public video
  5. Runs on two days
  6. Traced about a week later

Why it’s worth knowing

Missing and zero look identical downstream. A fresh file can still be the wrong file for the day it is describing.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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