- POST /api/launch/preflight and GET /api/traders/:id/preflight run every
launch prerequisite (AI model credential, claw402 wallet key + Base USDC
balance, strategy, exchange config, live account state, funding minimums)
and return a structured checklist with stable codes; minimums (1 USDC AI
fee / 12 USDC trading) now live server-side and are exposed in the response.
- POST /traders/:id/start enforces the preflight (400 with error_key
trader.start.preflight_failed + full checklist; ?force=true to override).
Funding gates use max(available, equity) so restarting a bot with deployed
margin is not blocked; indeterminate probes (RPC outage) degrade to
warnings instead of blocking.
- Run loop now surfaces runtime health via GetStatus: safe_mode(+reason) and
ai_wallet_status/balance (ok|low|empty|unknown), including typed detection
of claw402 ErrInsufficientFunds instead of burying it in logs; safe-mode
state is mutex-guarded for API readers.
- Onboarding wallet endpoints switch to the cached, error-aware balance query
and report balance_status so the UI can tell an RPC outage from an empty
wallet.
