Permissions

Agent permissions and their limits

A permission is only meaningful if you know its edges. The useful question about any automated trading authorisation is not whether it is described as safe, but which specific actions it can and cannot produce.

In short

A Hyperliquid agent approval authorises order actions — placing, modifying, cancelling and managing positions. It cannot sign withdrawals, transfers to external addresses, or changes to account ownership. Those remain exclusively signable by your own wallet.

Inside the scope

Everything the agent can do is an execution action on your behalf inside your own account. That includes routing orders into the isolated sub-account assigned to each leader, and closing positions when a leader exits or is replaced.

Open, modify, reduce and close perpetual positions.
Place and cancel orders across your sub-accounts.
Set leverage within the caps the system enforces.

Outside the scope

The excluded actions are the ones that could move value away from you. They are excluded by the protocol's definition of the agent role, not by a platform policy that could be changed later.

No withdrawals to any address, including your own.
No transfers out of your account or to a third party.
No ability to change or revoke your own wallet's authority.
No access to funds outside your Hyperliquid account.

Why scope beats policy

A platform promising not to withdraw is offering a policy. A protocol that cannot construct a withdrawal from an agent signature is offering a constraint. Constraints survive changes of management, incentive and intention; policies do not.

This is the substantive reason to prefer the agent model over depositing into a copy-trading service, and it is independent of whether the service is well run.

What is still at risk

Trading permission is a real permission. An agent can open positions that lose money, and mirrored perpetual positions can be liquidated. Position and leverage caps limit the size of that exposure; they do not remove it.

Past performance is not indicative of future results. Perpetual futures are leveraged instruments and carry a substantial risk of loss, including the loss of your entire position.

Questions

Frequently asked

Could a compromised agent drain my account?

It could trade badly, which can cost money. It cannot withdraw or transfer funds, because that action is not available to an agent signature.

Does the agent see my other wallets?

No. Its scope is the Hyperliquid account that approved it.

Can I limit the agent further?

The mirroring system applies its own per-leader notional ceilings and leverage caps on top of the protocol scope.

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