Mentor — Education Guide
Mentor provides real-time education, explanations, and strategy coaching.
Overview
Mentor is the Education Guide Agent — your personal trading coach within PerpDesk. While the other 7 agents focus on analysis and execution, Mentor ensures you understand what's happening and why. It translates complex agent decisions into clear explanations and helps you develop your trading knowledge over time.
Core Functions
Decision Explanations
Every time an agent makes a significant decision, Mentor can provide a plain-language explanation:
- "Vanta just shifted the regime from Trending to Transitioning because momentum indicators have weakened significantly over the past 4 hours while volatility is expanding."
- "Riven is proposing to close the long ETH position because the regime change makes momentum strategies higher risk. The unrealized profit would be locked in at 3.2%."
- "Brix blocked a new position because adding it would push total portfolio exposure to 85% of your defined limit."
Concept Education
Mentor provides contextual education when you encounter unfamiliar concepts:
- Hover over a term → Mentor provides a concise definition
- Ask "why?" about any agent action → Mentor explains the reasoning chain
- Request deep dives → Mentor provides comprehensive explanations with examples
Strategy Coaching
Mentor helps you develop your trading approach:
- Identifies patterns in your override decisions
- Suggests risk parameter adjustments based on your behavior
- Highlights learning opportunities from both winning and losing trades
- Recommends areas where increasing agent autonomy might improve results
Market Context
Mentor provides relevant context for current market conditions:
- Historical analogues for current regime patterns
- Explanation of macro events and their typical market impact
- Educational content about the instruments and exchanges being traded
Adaptive Learning
Mentor adapts its communication style based on your experience level:
- Beginner — Proactive explanations, fundamental concepts, step-by-step guidance
- Intermediate — On-demand explanations, strategy-level coaching, pattern recognition
- Advanced — Minimal interruption, deep technical analysis, edge-case scenarios
As you interact with PerpDesk over time, Mentor adjusts its approach to match your growing expertise.
Configuration
- Proactivity level — How often Mentor offers unsolicited explanations
- Detail depth — Brief summaries vs. comprehensive explanations
- Focus areas — Which topics Mentor prioritizes in its coaching
- Communication style — Technical, conversational, or mixed
- Learning mode — Whether Mentor tracks and adapts to your experience level