External Risk

Political Risk Agent

Tracks policy uncertainty and political-market activity.

Utility

This agent must be runnable on its own and must produce evidence that supports a decision, an avoidance, or a confidence change.

Decisions Supported

event riskiexposure limitsi

Questions Answered

Is policy uncertainty a market headwind?i

Data Sources

Yahoo policy-risk proxy basketiEPUiQuiver-style congressional tradingi

Current Run Market Data

Label	Symbol	Group	Price	Change	Change %	Status
VIX	^VIX	political_proxy	16.59	-0.11	-0.66%	live
UUP	UUP	political_proxy	27.77	0.04	+0.14%	live
TLT	TLT	political_proxy	84.68	0.46	+0.55%	live
XLI	XLI	political_proxy	171.77	1.24	+0.73%	live

Computed Signal

Name	Value	Regime	Confidence	Source	Observed
political_risk_proxy_score	62.9	constructive	100%	Yahoo chart endpoint	2026-05-26T00:52:21+00:00

Declared And Target Feeds

Source	Status	Current Run Data
Yahoo policy-risk proxy basket	current run	4/4 observed rows attached below.
EPU	target feed	Not used in the current run yet; listed as the permanent feed this agent should graduate to.
Quiver-style congressional trading	target feed	Not used in the current run yet; listed as the permanent feed this agent should graduate to.

Live Status

Policy-risk proxy: VIX -0.66%, UUP +0.14%, TLT +0.55%, XLI +0.73%.

Score

Warnings

• No active warnings.

Signals

Name	Value	Regime	Confidence	Source	Observed
political_risk_proxy_score	62.9	constructive	100%	Yahoo chart endpoint	2026-05-26T00:52:21+00:00