- It never takes custody. It proposes a portfolio; the user holds their own funds and signs every transaction.
- It does not rebalance on its own. Nothing moves without an explicit signature.
- It makes no yield promise. Expected return is an estimate from current rates and past variance, not a guarantee.
- It never overrides the score. It can only choose among vaults the scoring model already judged eligible.
- It is not “AI”. There is no guessing model and no language model in the loop — it is deterministic optimization with the parameters published on the tier policy page.
The Atlas Engine
What the Engine does not do
The boundaries that keep the Engine a proposal, never a custodian.