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	15.27	0.74	+5.09%	live
UUP	UUP	political_proxy	28.00	-0.08	-0.28%	live
TLT	TLT	political_proxy	82.21	0.00	+0.00%	live
XLI	XLI	political_proxy	175.09	-0.19	-0.11%	live

Computed Signal

Name	Value	Regime	Confidence	Source	Observed
political_risk_proxy_score	33.5	weak	100%	Yahoo chart endpoint	2026-09-08T16:49:19+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 +5.09%, UUP -0.28%, TLT +0.00%, XLI -0.11%.

Score

Warnings

• Policy-risk proxy is leaning defensive.

Signals

Name	Value	Regime	Confidence	Source	Observed
political_risk_proxy_score	33.5	weak	100%	Yahoo chart endpoint	2026-09-08T16:49:19+00:00