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	24.63	-3.55	-12.60%	live
UUP	UUP	political_proxy	29.14	0.22	+0.76%	live
TLT	TLT	political_proxy	82.03	0.10	+0.13%	live
XLI	XLI	political_proxy	163.16	0.69	+0.42%	live

Computed Signal

Name	Value	Regime	Confidence	Source	Observed
political_risk_proxy_score	58.3	constructive	100%	Yahoo chart endpoint	2026-11-06T19:33:23+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 -12.60%, UUP +0.76%, TLT +0.13%, XLI +0.42%.

Score

Warnings

• No active warnings.

Signals

Name	Value	Regime	Confidence	Source	Observed
political_risk_proxy_score	58.3	constructive	100%	Yahoo chart endpoint	2026-11-06T19:33:23+00:00