Overview
Separating execution and strategy makes the system easier to reason about. A brokerage connection can execute actions but does not determine whether the strategy is sensible. A strategy feed can provide ideas but cannot place trades. Hermes becomes the orchestration layer between them.
Paper trading also exposes operational problems. The agent may misread an update, size a position incorrectly, miss a schedule, or produce a confusing report. Those problems should be found before real money is enabled.
Dashboards make the activity reviewable from a phone. A project board creates a persistent record of what the agent checked and what it changed.