# FinRL - Doramagic AI Context Pack

> Purpose: pre-work context for the user's host AI. This pack does not prove that the project has been installed, run, or validated.

## Project

- canonical_name: `AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL`
- capability: FinRL®: Financial Reinforcement Learning. 🔥
- expected_user_outcome: FinRL®: Financial Reinforcement Learning. 🔥

## Operating Boundaries

- Do not claim that the project has been installed, run, called through an API, or used on local files unless separate evidence proves it.
- Project facts must come from repo evidence, Claim Graph, or explicit source references.
- When a capability is not verified, mark it as unverified instead of completing it as fact.
- publish_status: `publishable`
- blocking_gaps: none

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## Doramagic Context Augmentation

The following sections strengthen the repository context for a host AI. Human Manual data is a reading route, and pitfall notes become operating constraints.

## Human Manual Outline

Usage rule: this is only a reading route and salience signal, not factual authority. Concrete claims must still return to repo evidence or Claim Graph.

Host AI hard rules:
- Do not treat page titles, section order, summaries, or importance values as factual project evidence.
- When explaining the Human Manual outline, state that it is only a reading route or salience signal.
- Capability, installation, compatibility, runtime state, and risk claims must cite repo evidence, source paths, or Claim Graph.

- **FinRL Architecture, Three-Layer Framework & Project Layout**: importance `high`
  - source_paths: README.md, finrl/main.py, finrl/train.py, finrl/test.py, finrl/trade.py
- **Market Environments: StockTradingEnv, Crypto, Portfolio & Variants**: importance `high`
  - source_paths: finrl/meta/env_stock_trading/env_stocktrading.py, finrl/meta/env_stock_trading/env_stocktrading_np.py, finrl/meta/env_stock_trading/env_stocktrading_cashpenalty.py, finrl/meta/env_stock_trading/env_stocktrading_stoploss.py, finrl/meta/env_stock_trading/env_nas100_wrds.py
- **DRL Agents: Stable Baselines 3, ElegantRL, RLlib & Common Training Errors**: importance `high`
  - source_paths: finrl/agents/stablebaselines3/models.py, finrl/agents/stablebaselines3/hyperparams_opt.py, finrl/agents/stablebaselines3/tune_sb3.py, finrl/agents/elegantrl/models.py, finrl/agents/rllib/drllibv2.py
- **Data Pipeline, Paper Trading (Alpaca) & End-to-End Applications**: importance `high`
  - source_paths: finrl/meta/data_processor.py, finrl/meta/data_processors/processor_yahoofinance.py, finrl/meta/data_processors/processor_alpaca.py, finrl/meta/data_processors/processor_ccxt.py, finrl/meta/data_processors/processor_wrds.py

## Repo Inspection Evidence

- repo_clone_verified: true
- repo_inspection_verified: true
- repo_commit: `220f9e490996a6e5c84cfad914ff14f2e0c42d22`
- inspected_files: `README.md`, `pyproject.toml`, `requirements.txt`, `docs/.readthdocs.yaml`, `docs/source/conf.py`, `docs/source/reference/publication.md`, `docs/source/reference/reference.md`, `examples/FinRL_PaperTrading_Demo_refactored.py`, `examples/FinRL_StockTrading_2026_1_data.py`, `examples/FinRL_StockTrading_2026_2_train.py`, `examples/FinRL_StockTrading_2026_3_Backtest.py`, `examples/README.md`

Host AI hard rules:
- Without repo_clone_verified=true, do not claim that the source code has been read.
- Without repo_inspection_verified=true, do not write README, docs, or package-file conclusions as facts.
- Without quick_start_verified=true, do not claim that the Quick Start path has run successfully.

## Doramagic Pitfall Constraints

These rules come from Doramagic discovery, validation, or compilation findings. The host AI must treat them as operating constraints, not background notes.

### Constraint 1: Runtime risk requires verification

- Trigger: Project evidence flags a runtime risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL/issues/1395
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 2: Runtime risk requires verification

- Trigger: Project evidence flags a runtime risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL/issues/1414
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 3: Security or permission risk requires verification

- Trigger: Project evidence flags a security or permission risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL/issues/1412
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 4: Security or permission risk requires verification

- Trigger: Project evidence flags a security or permission risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL/issues/671
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 5: Security or permission risk requires verification

- Trigger: Project evidence flags a security or permission risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL/issues/1013
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 6: Security or permission risk requires verification

- Trigger: Project evidence flags a security or permission risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: packet_text.keyword_scan | https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 7: Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Trigger: README/documentation is current enough for a first validation pass.
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: capability.assumptions | https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 8: Maintenance risk requires verification

- Trigger: Project evidence flags a maintenance risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: evidence.maintainer_signals | https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 9: Security or permission risk requires verification

- Trigger: no_demo
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: downstream_validation.risk_items | https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 10: Security or permission risk requires verification

- Trigger: no_demo
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: risks.scoring_risks | https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.
