UI:
- Embed the real APEX logo PNG (transparent mark) in dashboard sidebar,
cmd-header, landing nav, and landing hero (replaces SVG approximations).
- Add favicon.png across all six templates.
- Nudge color palette to brand cyan→blue→purple gradient and silver-white
wordmark; word-by-word coloring on the cmd-header tagline.
- Drop-shadow glow on logo marks tuned to the brand-blue.
Demo:
- python -m demo.run_demo now defaults to an auto-running showcase: opens
the dashboard, kicks off a ~3-4 min optimization that exercises every
phase, and lands on a verdict modal — no manual setup needed.
- Tight per-iteration targets so Phase 2 actually iterates (visible AI loop).
- Skip per-run AI analysis during Phase 1 exploration via APEX_DEMO_SKIP_PHASE1_AI=1
to keep total runtime down without losing the headline AI loop in Phase 2.
- --quick flag opts back to the original fast/manual flow.
- --loop auto-restarts for unattended screen recording.
Docs:
- README + SUBMISSION updated to describe the new auto-running default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Major upgrade making the AI loop visible and the project ready for public release.
UI / UX
- Live AI Thinking Feed: streams reasoning, decisions, and outcomes per iteration
- Parameter Changes panel: prev → new + reason for every AI-driven edit
- Validation Activity panel: out-of-sample + sensitivity runs with live metrics
- Early Termination banner: surfaces why optimization stopped (targets met, no profit, budget, stuck, user stop)
- 3-phase tracker renamed Exploration / Iteration / Validation with live N/total
- Best Result modal exposes Evolution Path showing how the AI arrived at the winner
- Run-detail modal accessible from every recent run row
- Setup form validation (dates, walk-forward order, params selection, AI targets)
- Pause button removed; misleading sidebar nav consolidated to Dashboard / New Run / Reports / Source
Backend
- AIGuidedLoop streams ai_thinking, param_changes, ai_targets_met, ai_stuck
- Pipeline emits validation_start / validation_run_start / validation_run_complete / validation_done
- Pipeline emits early_termination on every early-stop path
- /api/best_result returns best run + full evolution chain
- /api/run/<id> + /api/runs sorted by ts
- AIReasoner falls back to ANTHROPIC_API_KEY env var when config is a placeholder
- Demo mode (APEX_DEMO_MODE=1) generates deterministic synthetic backtests so judges can run end-to-end without MT5
Open-source readiness
- README.md with pitch, demo flow, architecture diagram, quickstart, event reference
- LICENSE (MIT)
- config.example.yaml template (config.yaml now git-ignored)
- requirements.txt: added anthropic / requests / psutil / beautifulsoup4, capped majors
- .gitignore: secrets, *.set, scratch screenshots, ea_registry.yaml
- demo/run_demo.py: one-command offline demo runner
- 10 polished screenshots for README + judge review
