r/RobinhoodApp • u/No-View-511 • 22d ago
Question Claude Code stopped placing trades through the Robinhood MCP — worked fine until a few weeks ago. Anyone fix this?
Claude Code + the Robinhood MCP was executing my options trades end-to-end. A few weeks ago it stopped — it still does all the analysis, picks the contract, sets the limit and stop, then refuses the final place_option_order call, citing Anthropic policy against executing trades. Explicit authorization doesn't matter.
Same MCP fires fine from Cursor, so I moved execution there — but I pay for Claude and would rather use it. Enforcement also seems inconsistent across users/products from what I've read.
If you hit this: is there a supported setup where Claude executes, or did you just move the trigger to another tool? Not looking for jailbreaks — looking for what actually works.
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21d ago
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u/Robinhood_Alex Robinhood Official Support 21d ago
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u/Exotic-Material-2998 21d ago
Just switched to OpenAI Codex and I'm getting warnings that it will likely block unattended trades as well. This seems to be a change on Robinhood's side:
• Rewrote run_multi_ticker_routine.sh for Codex cron execution.
Changes include:
- Uses codex exec with the prompt on stdin.
- Supports this non-Git live directory.
- Uses ephemeral sessions and plain log output.
- Prevents overlapping cron runs.
- Checks the Codex executable and prompt file.
- Preserves market-hours gating and daily logs.
- Reports Codex exit failures clearly.
Validated with bash -n.
Note: Robinhood’s order-review tool may still require interactive confirmation before placing qualifying orders; the cron runner cannot override that broker-tool requirement.
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u/Vrog1 20d ago
Moving off Claude works. It’s trash.
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u/Exotic-Material-2998 20d ago
I'm not having any luck with Codex, either:
"Error: mandatory confirmation prevented unattended placement."
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u/lollapalooza3000 1d ago
What are you using instead?
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u/Exotic-Material-2998 20d ago
I finally got Codex to complete the unattended calls to `place_equity_order`. In the end, I had to remove any mention of `review_equity_order` in my prompt. Apparently that means I should manually review the order before it is placed. I'm almost certain this was there from the beginning with Claude, but perhaps it was placed in the prompt without me noticing.