FAQ
Questions, including the awkward ones
25 answers about how the gate behaves, what access it needs, what happens when something breaks, and where Breaker deliberately stops short. If an answer here reads like it is dodging the question, tell us and we will rewrite it.
Getting started
What it is and how it connects
What is Breaker, in one sentence?
Breaker is a safety layer that sits between your AI trading agent and your Robinhood account: every order the agent proposes is checked against limits you set before it can reach the market.
How do I connect it?
Instead of pointing your AI client at Robinhood’s agentic trading endpoint (https://agent.robinhood.com/mcp/trading), you point it at Breaker’s endpoint (https://mcp.breaker.trade/v1). That is the whole setup — one URL swapped in your client’s MCP configuration.
Which AI clients work with it?
Any MCP-compatible client — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, or your own — because Breaker exposes the same tools the agent already expects. You do not need to rewrite prompts, install an SDK, or teach the agent anything new.
Do I still need a Robinhood Agentic account?
Yes. Robinhood runs agent trades through a dedicated, ring-fenced Agentic account that you fund deliberately. Breaker gates the orders headed for that account; it does not create or replace it. Crypto trading was added to agentic trading on July 20, 2026.
Is it available yet?
Not yet. Breaker is pre-launch and features described on this site are planned and may change before release. There is no signup or waitlist open right now — check back when we announce availability.
How the gate works
Verdicts, rules, and latency
What are the three verdicts?
Allow — the order is inside your rules, so it is forwarded immediately. Hold — the order needs your approval, so you get a notification and nothing executes until you tap approve. Block — the order crosses a hard limit you set, so it is refused outright and the agent is put in timeout until you release it.
What happens to a hold if I never look at it?
It expires into a rejection. An unreviewed order is never quietly released later — the safe default is that nothing happens without a deliberate approval from you.
Can the agent turn the gate off, or release its own timeout?
No. Breaker is the agent’s only route to Robinhood — there is no second path it can fall back to — and releasing a timeout is an action only you can take. The agent can ask, retry, or argue; none of that changes the arithmetic.
What rules can I set?
Position size cap per trade, maximum share of your portfolio in any one asset, a total crypto exposure ceiling, a daily loss limit, a drawdown circuit breaker measured against your high-water mark, maximum trades per hour and per day, a cooldown after consecutive losses, an asset allowlist, a minimum order size to stop dust spam, a limit-price sanity check for fat-finger prices, reduce-only mode, no-trade time windows, and required approval above a dollar threshold you choose.
If I hit my daily loss limit, am I trapped in a losing position?
No. Breaker distinguishes orders that increase risk from orders that reduce it. Hitting a loss limit stops new risk-increasing buys; it never blocks you or your agent from closing a position you are trying to get out of.
Does it add latency to my trades?
The rule evaluation itself is deterministic arithmetic and resolves in under a millisecond — the dominant cost is the network hop, not the decision. That is the practical difference from asking a language model to judge each trade, which typically means waiting a couple of seconds for an opinion that can vary between identical inputs.
Security & access
Access, failure modes, and logs
What access does Breaker need?
A scoped Robinhood access token, encrypted at rest, with write access confined to the ring-fenced Agentic account you fund deliberately. That is what makes sitting in the path possible. Breaker never takes custody of your funds and cannot move money out of your account.
What happens if Breaker goes down?
It fails closed. If the gate cannot reach its rule engine, orders are not forwarded — an unevaluated order is treated as an order that has not been approved. Harmless reads such as quotes and balances may still pass through. You can always place trades yourself in the Robinhood app, and you can revoke Breaker’s access at any time.
What if my agent is prompt-injected?
An injected agent is still an agent with no route around Breaker. It can propose whatever the attacker talked it into, and your limits still apply as arithmetic: position caps, exposure ceilings, allowlists, and approval thresholds do not care why the order was proposed. Breaker never reads the agent’s reasoning — it reads the structured order and account state it fetches independently from Robinhood.
How do I cut the agent off entirely?
The kill switch. One tap revokes the token and severs the agent’s access to your account. You can also revoke access from the Robinhood side independently, without going through Breaker at all.
What do you log?
Every proposed order, the verdict it received, and the account snapshot used to evaluate it — written to an append-only record before the outcome of the trade is known, with a cryptographic fingerprint published so it cannot be edited afterwards. That ordering is the point: losing trades cannot be quietly deleted and nobody can claim a call they did not make.
Pricing & the token
Subscriptions and $BREAK
Do I need $BREAK to use Breaker?
No. Breaker works entirely without the token, and it always will. $BREAK is an optional access and fee utility for people who want higher tiers — it is not a gate on the product.
How much does it cost?
Breaker is planned as a paid subscription with a free tier that includes the core gate, the kill switch, and basic rules — enough to be genuinely useful on its own. Exact pricing and tier contents are not final and are not being announced yet.
What is $BREAK actually for?
Access and fees: unlocking higher tiers, higher limits, advanced rule types, priority approval routing, and paying service fees at a discount. Subscription revenue from the service backs that utility. It is a way to pay for and unlock access, and nothing more.
Is $BREAK an investment?
No. $BREAK is not a share of trading profits, revenue sharing, a dividend, passive income, yield, or a staking reward, and it carries no expectation of financial return. $BREAK is not live: there is no presale, no allocation, no public sale, and no launch date, and nothing on this site is an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any token or security.
Where will the token live?
It is planned for Robinhood Chain, the permissionless Ethereum L2 with chain ID 4663 that launched on July 1, 2026. That is a thematic fit more than a technical one — Breaker guards Robinhood accounts, so its access token belongs on Robinhood’s chain. No date is being promised.
Limitations
What it will not do for you
Does this guarantee I will not lose money?
No, and anything that tells you otherwise is lying. Breaker enforces limits that you set yourself. It is a risk-control tool: it can reduce the damage of a bad decision, but it cannot eliminate risk and cannot guarantee against losses.
Does Breaker pick trades or manage my money?
Never. Breaker does not give financial, investment, tax, or legal advice, does not choose what to buy or sell, and does not manage money. It only relays, holds, or refuses orders that your own agent proposes. You are responsible for every trade placed in your account, including trades placed by an AI agent you authorized.
Can it protect me from rules I set badly?
Only partly. The engine is deterministic — it enforces exactly the limits you configure, no more and no less. Generous limits produce generous outcomes in both directions. The defaults are conservative, but the numbers are yours.
Are you affiliated with Robinhood?
No. Robinhood is a trademark of Robinhood Markets, Inc.. Breaker is an independent third-party tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or supervised by Robinhood Markets, Inc. or any of its subsidiaries. Robinhood does not supervise third-party agents.
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Breaker is pre-launch software. Features described on this site are planned and may change before release. Robinhood is a trademark of Robinhood Markets, Inc.. Breaker is an independent third-party tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or supervised by Robinhood Markets, Inc. or any of its subsidiaries.