Core concepts
Core concepts for AI-executable protocols, manual approval, previews, policy checks, adapters, lifecycles, and strategy workflows.
Short answer
Start here to understand how Mattheus turns user intent into previewed, policy-checked, manually approved execution across supported onchain protocols.
Execution model
Mattheus can prepare executable protocol actions, but live execution requires preview, policy checks, and user approval.
No performance promise
Research, APYs, simulations, backtests, and previews are not individualized advice or promised outcomes.
Who This Is For
Developers, operators, and reviewers learning the Mattheus execution model.
Before You Begin
- Basic familiarity with wallets, orders, onchain transactions, and API keys
Answer engine brief
Mattheus overview
Mattheus is a private AI trading workspace for researching markets, testing reproducible strategies, reviewing portfolio context, and preparing governed actions. Developers can connect through REST APIs, SDKs, and MCP while account authority, policy checks, and approvals remain separate.
Does Mattheus require approval before execution?
Yes. An interactive request requires an exact short-lived one-time approval confirmed with fresh wallet reauthentication. API-key automation requires a separately activated, scoped agent session. Both paths still require wallet or signing readiness and policy checks.
Which markets are documented?
The active launch documentation covers Hyperliquid market data, paper trading, and gated Live workflows. Each page states whether an example is read-only, simulated, paper, or eligible for approval-gated Live execution.
How does policy-gated execution work?
Execution-capable requests are preview-first and must pass wallet readiness, protocol certification, feature gates, idempotency, configured policy controls, and either an exact interactive approval or a bounded API-key agent session before any live action.
Can users revoke permissions?
Users should be able to revoke supported scoped permissions and API keys. Documentation should keep stop, cancel, revoke, and policy rejection paths clear before users approve live execution.
Example
What this example does
Follow this example in order. Read the expected result below before connecting it to a live account or execution-capable workflow.
Plain-language walkthrough
- 1
Mattheus overview
/docs/concepts/what-is-mattheus
- 2
AI-executable protocols
/docs/concepts/ai-executable-protocols
- 3
Manual approval model
/docs/concepts/manual-approval-model
- 4
Preview before execution
/docs/concepts/preview-before-execution
- 5
Policy-gated execution
/docs/concepts/policy-gated-execution
- 6
Protocol adapters
/docs/concepts/protocol-adapters
- 7
Execution lifecycle
/docs/concepts/execution-lifecycle
- 8
Strategies and workflows
/docs/concepts/strategies-and-workflows
Expected result
Common errors
- Preview rejected: balances, allowance, liquidity, route, simulation, policy, or approved-address checks did not pass.
- Approval required: an interactive request has no approved, unexpired, exact one-time approval artifact, or an API-key request has no active scoped agent session.
- Approval mismatch: execution must reject if the payload changed after the preview was approved.
- Approval unavailable: approval state could not be verified or consumed atomically, so execution remains blocked.
- Policy blocked: configured limits blocked the action before signing or broadcast.