Auto Token Trade Safety Gate

Protect an automated trading workflow from known contract, liquidity, manipulation, route, and wallet traps. This gate reduces observable risk; it does not predict price, establish positive expected value, guarantee profit, or prove that an unflagged token is safe.

Boundary

• This skill is read-only. It must not approve, sign, send, swap, snipe, broadcast, or pass --force.
• A PASS authorizes only the next workflow stage to request execution. It is not transaction authorization and does not replace the wallet or signer workflow's confirmation requirements.
• The user's future goal of automated profit is not standing authorization for any transaction, wallet policy, budget, or threshold.
• Do not expose credentials, private keys, session material, raw signed transactions, or secrets in gate evidence or audit artifacts.

Load the relevant contract

• For every concrete gate decision, read references/gate-contract.md.
• Read references/chain-checks.md for the candidate's exact chain and token standard; do not load irrelevant chain sections.
• Read references/policy-and-audit.md when defining the automation policy, integrating the gate into a workflow, or designing post-trade monitoring.

Evidence providers

Use available skills and tools as evidence providers rather than copying their command catalogs:

• new-token-risk-analysis for the full risk frame and evidence calibration.
• An installed market-data capability for current liquidity, holders, clusters, trades, developer history, bundles, snipers, and launch state.
• An installed wallet-security capability for token, DApp, transaction, signature, approval, quote, and simulation security. Preserve any provider-classified verdicts.
• A named protocol capability or current official documentation for protocol-native rules and exact route construction.
• Current chain state, verified deployed source, and an owning contract-audit workflow for contract, proxy, deployment, or invariant claims.

When a named provider is unavailable, use another authoritative source only if it supplies the same identity, freshness, and schema guarantees. Otherwise record the evidence as unavailable and BLOCK.

Run standalone security and market checks before entering an execution flow. The generic wallet workflow may allow a time-sensitive swap to continue after a scan failure; this autonomous gate is stricter: unavailable or incomplete security evidence is BLOCK.

Decision model

Return exactly one executable decision:

• PASS — every required check completed, all evidence is fresh under an explicit policy, all upstream actions are acceptable for unattended execution, and the artifact is bound to one exact proposed transaction.
• BLOCK — any failure, warning, ambiguity, unsupported feature, stale or contradictory result, missing policy, or changed transaction parameter. Include machine-readable reasons.

There is no autonomous WARN, PAUSE, REVIEW, or manual-override state. For an unattended trade:

• token-scan warn, pause, or block => BLOCK;
• transaction/signature scan warn or block => BLOCK;
• quote/route action other than ok => BLOCK;
• scanner/API failure, unsupported chain, missing result, or unrecognized schema => BLOCK;
• a top-level verdict that conflicts with any per-token result, address identity, or native-token classification => invalid evidence => BLOCK.

Do not recompute an upstream security verdict from raw labels. Validate identity and schema, retain the upstream verdict, and reject contradictory output.

Required flow

1. Bind identity — exact chain ID, full token/mint address, token program/standard, quote asset, venue, pool, router/program, wallet, direction, amount, slippage, minimum output, value, deadline, and policy version. A name or symbol is insufficient.
2. Collect fresh evidence — chain head, token and DApp scans, contract permissions, liquidity, curve/LP state, holders and clusters, bundles, developer history, trades, quote, and simulations.
3. Prove entry and exit — simulate the exact buy route and establish a supported sell path under the same current state. If the tool cannot model the sell path without first spending funds, BLOCK; never use a live purchase as the safety test.
4. Evaluate executable liquidity — measure price impact, tax, and slippage for the proposed size, not just pool TVL. Internal curve liquidity and external DEX liquidity are different venues.
5. Evaluate control and manipulation — inspect circulating-supply concentration, top-holder clusters, common funding, bundles, creator holdings/history, wash trading, and net quote inflow.
6. Validate wallet and route — allowlisted venue/router/program/spender, exact recipient, bounded approval, gas/priority constraints, calldata/instruction semantics, transaction scan, and successful final simulation.
7. Apply explicit policy — budget, exposure, liquidity, concentration, age, slippage, loss, concurrency, data freshness, and retry constraints must come from a versioned policy. Missing product-policy values are BLOCK, not invitations to invent defaults.
8. Emit and bind the artifact — record every check and bind PASS to the exact unsigned transaction intent. Any later change invalidates the artifact and requires a full re-gate.

Universal blockers

Block regardless of strategy thresholds when any of these applies:

• chain/address/token-program mismatch, empty code/account, spoofed symbol resolution, or ambiguous asset identity;
• detected honeypot, blocked sell, arbitrary seizure, or an unbounded/mutable critical authority outside the explicit policy;
• exact buy or sell path cannot be simulated successfully, or actual token/quote deltas cannot be established;
• scan or simulation failure, stale/partial data, contradictory verdicts, or a required provider is unavailable;
• route, router/program, spender, recipient, fee payer, value, calldata/instructions, deadline, or quote changed after gating;
• unlimited approval, arbitrary call target/recipient, unbounded calldata, or a signer request that is not the gated intent;
• policy missing, expired, exceeded, or not bound to the candidate wallet and strategy;
• the candidate requires ignoring a security warning or treating missing evidence as safe.

LP lock, graduation, renounced authorities, high holder count, low top-10 concentration, or a scanner safe result may mitigate individual risks but cannot independently produce PASS.

Output

Lead with PASS or BLOCK. Return a structured gate artifact plus a concise user-facing summary:

• asset and exact transaction identity;
• policy ID/version and evidence timestamps/chain heads;
• each required check with pass, fail, stale, unavailable, or not_applicable;
• decisive reasons and unresolved evidence;
• executable entry/exit deltas, fees, taxes, slippage, and liquidity findings;
• artifact expiry and every field whose change requires re-gating;
• explicit statement that PASS is not transaction authorization.

Never hide failed checks behind an aggregate score. Retain raw provider references and normalized facts without storing secrets.