External Hires, The Agent Marketplace
One-click agent installs from a curated marketplace. Built by developers, used by traders, powered by PerpDesk.
The App Store for Trading Agents
Think about how you install an app on your phone. You open the App Store, find what you need, tap Install, and it works. You don't clone a GitHub repository. You don't configure environment variables. You don't debug dependency conflicts.
Now think about how trading agents work today.
You find a promising agent on GitHub. You clone the repo. You install Python or Node. You set up API keys, configure environment files, install dependencies, troubleshoot version conflicts, figure out which exchange SDK version is compatible, and pray the README is up to date. If you're lucky, after 45 minutes of setup, it runs. If you're not, you're debugging someone else's code.
This is why 99% of traders never use AI agents, not because the agents don't exist, but because using them requires being a developer. The distribution model is broken.
PerpDesk fixes this with External Hires, a curated marketplace where agents built by developers are instantly usable by traders.
How It Works
- Browse the Agent Marketplace inside PerpDesk
- Find an agent that fits your needs
- Tap Add to Desk
- The agent joins your team immediately, fully configured, connected, and operating within your risk limits
No terminal. No GitHub. No environment setup. The agent plugs directly into your desk's coordination pipeline and starts contributing.
Today vs. PerpDesk
| Traditional Agent Setup | PerpDesk External Hire | |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery | Search GitHub, Twitter, Discord | Browse curated marketplace |
| Installation | Clone repo, install dependencies, configure env | One tap: Add to Desk |
| Configuration | Edit YAML/JSON config files, manage API keys | Pre-configured with your existing setup |
| Execution | Build your own or use basic exchange API | Full PerpDesk execution toolkit |
| Risk management | Hope the agent has one built in | Brix enforces your limits automatically |
| Performance tracking | Build your own logging | Lucid tracks everything from day one |
| Updates | git pull and pray nothing breaks | Auto-updates, backward compatible |
| Time to first trade | Hours to days | Minutes |
This is the difference between installing an app and building software from source.
Marketplace Categories
Signal Specialists, including on-chain whale tracking, DEX flow analysis, social sentiment scoring, options flow interpretation, funding rate arbitrage detection.
Strategy Agents, including momentum specialists, mean-reversion systems, statistical arbitrage engines, volatility surface analyzers. Proven strategies that integrate with Riven's coordination.
Alternative Data Agents, including governance vote trackers, GitHub commit monitors, exchange reserve flows, stablecoin supply analytics, macro news NLP processors.
Risk & Compliance Agents, including sector exposure monitors, correlation regime detectors, tail risk estimators, portfolio stress testers. Additional layers that work alongside Brix.
Execution Specialists, including sniper entry specialists, accumulation pattern agents, liquidation cascade exploiters, cross-venue arbitrage executors.
For Developers: A Home for Your Work
If you build trading agents, you know the problem. You create something genuinely useful, publish it on GitHub, and your audience is limited to other developers. The traders who would actually benefit can't get past the installation barrier.
PerpDesk gives developers three things they've never had:
The right audience. Your agent lands in front of active perpetual futures traders on a coordinated desk. These aren't tire-kickers, they're traders looking for edge.
The right infrastructure. Your agent doesn't need its own execution engine, risk system, or data pipeline. It plugs into PerpDesk's existing toolkit. You focus on what makes your agent smart, the signal logic, the strategy, the data processing, and PerpDesk provides everything else.
Revenue. External Hires can be free or paid. Set your own pricing, monthly subscription, per-trade fee, or one-time purchase. PerpDesk handles billing. You build. You earn.
What Developers Get
- Agent SDK, TypeScript-native, fully typed, built for trading use cases
- Sandbox environment, Test against historical data with the full PerpDesk pipeline before publishing
- Documentation, Full coordination protocol spec, tool API reference, and integration guides
- Distribution, Listed in the marketplace, discoverable by every PerpDesk user
- Analytics, Installation counts, usage metrics, performance attribution, user feedback
- Monetization, Flexible pricing, PerpDesk-managed billing, transparent revenue splits
Quality Standards
Every marketplace agent goes through review:
- Security audit, No data exfiltration, no unauthorized API calls, no malicious behavior
- Performance baseline, Must demonstrate competence on historical data before listing
- Risk compliance, Must respect Brix's risk limits and the coordination protocol
- Documentation, Clear description of what the agent does, how it works, and what data it uses
- Versioning, Semantic versioning with backward-compatible updates
This isn't a free-for-all. It's a curated marketplace where quality matters and traders can trust what they install.
Coming Soon
The Agent Marketplace is under active development. The coordination protocol is built, the distribution layer is next.
What's in progress:
- Marketplace UI, Browse, search, filter, and install agents from within PerpDesk
- Developer portal, Submit agents, manage listings, track analytics, configure pricing
- Agent SDK v1, Public release of the TypeScript SDK for building marketplace-ready agents
- Review pipeline, Security, performance, and compliance review for submitted agents
- Rating system, Trader reviews, performance scores, and trust indicators
The vision: a thriving ecosystem where the best trading minds, traders and developers alike, contribute to a shared marketplace. Traders get access to specialized intelligence they could never build themselves. Developers get a direct path to monetization with the right audience. All coordinated. All on one desk.