AI Assistant for Bot Setup: 10 Prompts That Actually Help

Connecting your Bitsgap API key to Claude or ChatGPT turns bot setup into a conversation. Instead of reading through grid step, DCA interval, and take-profit fields one by one, you describe what you're trying to do — the AI configures it, and you review before anything goes live.

This isn't an AI trading agent making live decisions with your funds. It's a configuration layer: you describe a strategy in plain language, the AI turns it into concrete bot settings, and a deterministic bot executes exactly those settings once you approve them.

Launching next week. The prompts below are the actual questions worth asking once it's live — not generic AI hype, a working list for four real setup tasks.

How the Connection Works

1. Generate a trade-only API key inside Bitsgap — no withdrawal permission, ever
2. Connect that key to Claude or ChatGPT
3. Describe your strategy, pair preference, or risk tolerance in your own words
4. Review the bot configuration the AI proposes before starting it

The AI never touches your exchange directly. It reads your connected balance and market data, proposes settings, and stops there — starting the bot is a separate action you take after reviewing the config.

10 Prompts, by Setup Task

Pair Selection

1. "My portfolio is mostly BTC and ETH. Which pair fits a low-risk GRID bot without adding correlated exposure?" Output: a pair suggestion outside your existing holdings, with the reasoning for why it doesn't just duplicate the risk you already carry.

2. "Compare BTC/USDT and SOL/USDT for a GRID bot — which has tighter, more consistent range behavior over the last 30 days?" Output: a side-by-side read on range width and how often each pair has broken out of it recently — the two things that make or break a grid strategy.

Risk Sizing

3. "I have $500 to allocate. What position size keeps a spot GRID bot's realistic drawdown under 15%?" Output: a suggested allocation, not a guarantee — spot bots have a hard ceiling on loss (your capital), so this is about sizing within that ceiling, not eliminating risk.

4. "Explain the liquidation price for a 3x leveraged DCA Futures bot on ETH/USDT with $300 margin." Output: the actual liquidation price at that leverage and margin, so you're sizing against a number instead of a feeling.

Settings

5. "Suggest a grid step and range width for BTC/USDT based on its recent average volatility." Output: concrete numbers tied to measured price behavior, not settings copied from a tutorial or another pair.

6. "What take-profit and stop-loss levels make sense for a DCA bot averaging into SOL over two weeks?" Output: levels tied to your stated timeframe — a two-week DCA and a two-month DCA shouldn't use the same exit logic.

Strategy Verification

7. "Backtest this grid config against the last 90 days of BTC/USDT and summarize the drawdown, not just the return." Output: a full picture including the worst stretch, not just the flattering headline number — a backtest that only reports upside is a backtest you can't trust.

8. "Point out anything wrong with this DCA config before I run it live." (paste your settings) Output: a second pass on your own setup — catching a stop-loss left empty, a range too tight for the pair's actual volatility, or an allocation that's larger than intended.

9. "Would this strategy have survived October 2025's liquidation cascade without getting force-closed?" Output: a stress test against a real historical event rather than an average week — the scenario a config needs to survive, not the one it's likely to see most days.

10. "Summarize this bot's risk profile in plain language before I connect it to my real account." Output: a plain-English readout of what could go wrong, so the last check before going live isn't a settings screen you've already stopped reading closely.

What This Doesn't Do

Worth stating plainly: the AI isn't trading on your behalf, and it isn't predicting the market. It's translating a described strategy into bot parameters and checking that config for the risks you asked it to check. The bot that actually executes trades runs on the same fixed, deterministic logic as any GRID or DCA bot — the AI's job ends at the "review before you approve" step.

Try It When It Launches

Bitsgap's AI Bot Builder connects a trade-only API key to Claude or ChatGPT — no withdrawal permission, free for all users at launch. Describe a strategy, review the config, decide whether to run it.

FAQ

Can the AI move my funds or trade without my approval? No. The API key it connects to is trade-only with withdrawal disabled, and the AI proposes a bot configuration — starting the bot is a separate step you take after reviewing it.

Is this the same as the existing AI Assistant portfolio tool? No. The existing AI Assistant is a form-based wizard that builds a GRID bot portfolio from your exchange, investment amount, and duration preference. This is a separate feature — describing a strategy in your own words to Claude or ChatGPT, connected via your Bitsgap API key.

Do I need a paid plan to use it? It launches free for all users, so setup access itself doesn't require a Pro subscription — check current plan details at launch for any features gated separately.

What happens if the AI suggests a bad configuration? You review every proposed setting before the bot starts. Nothing runs automatically without that approval step, so a flawed suggestion gets caught before it's live, not after.

Which AI models does it work with? Claude and ChatGPT at launch, connected through your Bitsgap API key.