Autonomous Polymarket agents were always inevitable. The question was who builds the version that doesn’t require a dev setup to run. The terminal-and-MCP approach works if you’re already technical. But most traders aren’t. Sides Agent putting plain English strategy input, Telegram-native execution, Kelly sizing, and auto-pause on failures into one package is a different surface area entirely. EV calculation and basket arb running 24/7 inside a budget cap is the version of this that actually gets adoption. The free first 500 activations will tell you fast whether the retention follows.