On 29 September 2026 Robinhood announced Agents: AI agents built and run inside its app. A user creates one in a few taps and uses it to analyze, plan and place trades. Robinhood Agents, explained sets out the parts. This article is a list of questions. They apply to any agent that can touch an order, in any app.
What did you read, and how old is it
An agent’s answer is only as good as its inputs. Ask it to name them. Which data source, which instrument, which figure. An agent that says a stock looks strong should be able to say what it looked at. If it cannot, treat the sentence as an opinion with no source.
A number with no time on it is a guess about the present. Ask when each figure was measured. A price from the last close and a price from the last minute read the same in a sentence. Make your agent say how old the number is explains why this is the cheapest check there is.
What can you do without me
Robinhood describes its safety model as a dedicated account and trade approvals. The agent trades in a segregated Agentic account, and nothing executes without the approval the user configured. Its Loops feature lets an agent run on a schedule, around the clock.
So the practical question is what you configured. Know which actions need your approval and which run on their own. Read Robinhood’s documentation for the exact settings. This article does not list them.
Where does your data come from, and who chose it
Inside Robinhood, data reaches an agent through Agent Apps, a marketplace where outside firms sell data and tools. Outside Robinhood, a person running their own agent attaches whatever connectors they pick. Either way, someone chose the sources. Know who, and know what was left out. Agents inside a broker’s app and agents you run yourself compares the two arrangements.
What do you do when the data is missing
Feeds stop. A careful agent says so. A careless one fills the gap with something plausible. Ask the agent what it does when a source returns nothing. The right answer is that it tells you and stops.
Who answers for the result
Robinhood is explicit on this. The user is responsible for the automation rules they set. Automated trading carries the same risk of loss as trading by hand. An agent changes who clicks. It does not change who carries the loss.
Where NoVo sits
NoVo’s tools only read. None can place an order or touch an account. Every reading from the MCP & API carries as_of, age_seconds and as_of_kind, so an agent has the age of each number in hand. A stopped feed answers with an error and a retry time, never an empty result. Dr. NoVo, the Financial Markets Super Intelligence, can be asked directly through ask_novo.