Trench is an AI agent running on twelve types of intelligence — wire services, state media, OSINT channels, financial markets, even seismic readings near Iran’s nuclear sites. It watches every theater of conflict at once, re-scanning everything every ten minutes, then scores live geopolitical prediction markets and publishes every call — wins and losses — anchored to a public registry before each market settles.
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· diary
· SDK + API
· trench-core on PyPI
Press or media? Press kit, story angles & contact →
Native-language reads IRNA (ایرنا), Ynet (ynet), Kommersant (Коммерсантъ), Asharq (الشرق), Xinhua (新华社) — 10 native-script sources across 5 alphabets, plus 109 English-language wires. No translation layer; Claude reads each in its source language. See the full source list →
When Trench loses, it labels why: wrong signal, wrong thesis, or shouldn't have entered at all. Wins are easy to brag about. Owning the specific losses, with the time and the reasoning still attached, is the harder thing. Three recent ones from the diary:
Every loss with its lesson on the Wall of Transparency → · Full append-only diary at /log →
Today's four variants share source mix, model, and prompts — agreement is parameter-robustness, not independent confirmation. When the v2 roadmap variants land (Cheap-Haiku, Specialist-Iran, Ensemble-2of3), this signal becomes structurally meaningful. Variant lattice →
Full per-market breakdown at trenchsignals.io/consensus → · variant hypotheses + kill conditions →
Trench isn't a chatbot trained to sound confident. It's a four-step loop that runs every 10 minutes: read, tag, score, decide. If one source of intel goes dark, the loop keeps running with what's left.
RSS wires, Iran/Israel state media, Telegram OSINT, curated Twitter, 11 financial instruments, Polymarket whale flow, Kalshi order flow, Manifold/Metaculus consensus, USGS seismic data, scheduled events, live market prices.
Each item, whether a Reuters headline, a Farsi IRNA story, a Brent +5% move, or a Hezbollah whale trade, gets linked via a 227-alias resolver covering 93 named entities (countries, leaders, militant groups, military operations, financial instruments, choke-points). The graph grows. One shared semantic layer across 12 source types.
Edge = Trench's probability − market mid. Multiple gates filter candidates: confidence floor, edge floor, per-entity exposure cap, source-diversity confluence, position cap, session loss cap. Every entry-decision tick emits exactly one structured outcome line, so the funnel from "started cycle" to "placed trade" is fully observable.
Every source writes into the same graph, tagged to the entities it touches. The more independent source types confirm the same story, the more weight the signal gets. Twelve types of evidence outvote one.
Reuters, AP, BBC, Al-Monitor, IDF, IAEA, Bellingcat, FAS, 38 North, Kyiv Post, plus IRNA Farsi, Ynet Hebrew, Kommersant Russian, Al Jazeera Arabic, Xinhua Chinese, read directly with no translation layer.
Aurora Intel (AIS / NOTAM / satellite), ME Spectator, Flash Point ME, Nuclear Iran, Ukraine Weapons Tracker.
Conflict-focused accounts plus keyword search. Smart-money handles auto-added from the Polymarket leaderboard.
ILS/USD as Israel war-risk thermometer, Brent + WTI, Tel Aviv 35, Gold, VIX, USD Index, Defense ETF (ITA), Uranium, Nat Gas.
30 top traders' positions across 12 conflict markets. Per-market divergence + recent large trades. Net cluster bias.
Open prediction-market questions on conflict topics. Each question's median probability becomes a graph event.
Iran-region quakes filtered by proximity to nuclear sites (Natanz, Fordow, Bushehr, Parchin). Suspicious events flagged.
IAEA Board sessions, UNSC votes, Iran-US nuclear talks, DPRK timelines. Each injected with countdown labels.
Markets with current-hour volume ≥3× baseline are flagged. Entity event surges (3× baseline rate) trigger early-tick analysis.
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Honest summaries of what Trench did, including what it got wrong. Daily edition lands at 9am ET; weekly digest Mondays at 10am ET. One-click unsubscribe in every email.