Risk Alerts

What Ava watches, when it pings you, and how to tune the thresholds.

Risk Alerts#

Risk alerts are how Ava earns its keep when nothing seems to be happening. Ava is always watching; you only hear from it when something matters.

What Ava watches#

  • Aave health factor. Default warning at HF 1.5; default red alert at HF 1.2 (configurable).
  • Idle balance changes. New idle USDC over a threshold you set (e.g. > 500 USDC) — useful for catching incoming transfers that should be put to work.
  • Token approvals. New unlimited approvals, and stale unlimited approvals that haven't been used in 90+ days.
  • Material wallet activity. Outgoing transactions over a configurable size — useful if you share a wallet or worry about compromise.

What an alert looks like#

⚠️ Your Aave position dropped to HF 1.3 — liquidation risk is rising.

Here's what's in your wallet: • 500 USDC • 0.2 WETH • 50 LINK.

Want me to help you top it up? [ ✅ Yes ] [ Just remind me later ]

Three things to notice:

  1. Plain English first, numbers second. You know what's wrong before you read the math.
  2. The action proposal is at fire time, not config time. Ava shows what's actually in your wallet now and proposes a concrete fix that uses real balances. This is the difference between Ava and a rule like "if HF < 1.3 → repay 300 USDC" set in advance.
  3. Always an opt-out. "Just remind me later" snoozes; nothing happens silently.

Tuning thresholds#

Tell Ava what you want:

  • "warn me at HF 1.6"
  • "don't alert on approvals under 10k"
  • "ignore Uniswap LP alerts"
  • "send red alerts only — skip the yellow ones"

Or use /alerts for a menu. Whatever you set persists across sessions.

Quiet hours#

Tell Ava "don't ping me between 11pm and 7am unless it's red". Yellow alerts will queue and arrive at 7am; red alerts (true urgency) still come through.

Alerts vs Actions#

Alerts are read-only: even in full guardian mode, an alert is still just a message. Actions require your confirmation and an on-chain spend permission that caps what Ava can do. See Alerts vs Actions →.

Edge cases#

  • Network congestion / RPC lag. Ava may see an HF a few seconds stale. Where minutes matter (e.g. HF very close to 1.0), Ava errs on the side of warning early.
  • Oracle anomalies. If a price feed looks anomalous, Ava warns but doesn't act — even with permission. Safety beats speed.
  • Multiple wallets. Alerts are per wallet. Ava prefixes each alert with the wallet alias so you know which one is asking for attention.