Pit Officer

Website: officer.openpit.dev

Pit Officer lets you manage trading accounts, set risk limits, connect to brokers, and send orders from a web panel. The OpenPit risk engine checks each order before Officer sends it through a trading connection. You can also use Officer from trading software or AI agents.

Run

Officer runs on your own computer, and you use it through a web browser. Docker lets you run the same ready-made application on Windows, macOS, and Linux, without building it or installing programming tools.

If you do not have Docker yet, follow the Docker installation guide. Start Docker Desktop and wait until it says it is running. On Linux, you can also use Docker Engine; see the quickstart.

Open a terminal, the window where you type commands: PowerShell from the Start menu on Windows, Terminal on macOS, or your terminal application on Linux. Copy the command below, paste it there, and press Enter. The command is the same on all three systems:

docker run -d --name pit-officer --restart unless-stopped -p 127.0.0.1:8787:8787 -v pit-officer-data:/data ghcr.io/openpitkit/officer

The first run downloads Officer, which may take a few minutes. It then runs in the background, so you can close the terminal. Your settings and records are saved on your computer in storage named pit-officer-data and kept when you stop or restart Officer.

To check whether it is ready, run:

docker ps --filter name=pit-officer

When the STATUS column shows (healthy), open http://127.0.0.1:8787 in your browser and bookmark it. If it shows (health: starting), wait a few seconds and check again. The panel is ready for you to configure your accounts, risk limits, and connections.

In that address, 127.0.0.1 means your own computer, and 8787 is the port, the number used to reach the panel. To use a different port, choose it before running the long command: for example, replace -p 127.0.0.1:8787:8787 with -p 127.0.0.1:8788:8787, then open http://127.0.0.1:8788. Keep the final 8787 unchanged; it is the number Officer uses inside Docker.

To stop Officer, run docker stop pit-officer. To start it again, run docker start pit-officer and open your bookmark. Use these commands after the first installation; you do not need to repeat the long command.

For help with installation, changing the port of an existing installation, or a panel that will not open, see the quickstart.

Build

Prerequisites: a C toolchain, which the OpenPit Go binding requires through cgo; Go; and Node and npm for the dashboard bundle. Tool versions are pinned in .github/ci-versions.env.

From the repository root, build the dashboard before the binary so Go embeds the compiled assets:

npm --prefix web ci
npm --prefix web run build
CGO_ENABLED=1 go build -o pit-officer ./cmd/pit-officer

On Windows, set CGO_ENABLED=1 in your shell, build with go build -o pit-officer.exe ./cmd/pit-officer, and run ./pit-officer.exe.

Run from source

Pit Officer is a single binary with four subcommands: serve, mcp, dashboard, healthcheck. After building it, run from the repository root:

./pit-officer serve       # serve the dashboard, REST API, and HTTP MCP
./pit-officer dashboard   # in another terminal, open the running instance
./pit-officer mcp         # alternatively, run a local stdio MCP server

The subcommands, environment variables, flags, and authorization model are in the configuration reference. See the API notes for REST and MCP integration.

Local container build

To build and run a local container image with the settings in docker-compose.yml:

. ./.github/ci-versions.env
docker build --build-arg GO_VERSION="$CI_GO" -t pit-officer:local .
docker compose up

Optional Just shortcuts

Just provides a quicker alternative to the manual steps above. The recipes also require Python 3; the full check additionally uses golangci-lint and Semgrep, as described in the development notes.

just frontend-ci-install  # npm ci in web/ from the committed lockfile
just build                # build the SPA, then the pit-officer binary
just run-serve            # build and serve
just dashboard            # open the running instance in the browser
just run-mcp              # build and run a local stdio MCP server
just docker-build         # build the pit-officer:local container image
just check                # format checks, linters, Semgrep, tests, frontend bundles

Composing your own Officer from the importable packages, building against a local Pit checkout, and the debug variants are covered in the development notes.

License

Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE.