> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://superform-cb7ef652-docs-strategy-visual-walkthrough.mintlify.site/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Strategy Canvas Walkthrough > A visual, click-by-click tour of the Strategy Canvas: from the vault list to a working deposit strategy. This is a visual tour of the Strategy Canvas — what you click, what you see, and how to build a working deposit strategy from scratch. It teaches the product surface first; for the JSON/API form of the same strategy, see the [Strategy Quickstart](/operate/strategy/quickstart). Prefer to author by API or point an agent at the docs? The [Strategy Quickstart](/operate/strategy/quickstart) has the equivalent JSON payloads, and [Strategy DSL](/operate/strategy/dsl) / [Action Config](/operate/strategy/action-config) are the field references. ## 1. Find your vaults Curate home — the My SuperVaults grid **Click** `Curate` in the top nav. This is the curator home — the entry point for managing SuperVaults. You see a `Welcome` header, three top-line metrics (Total TVL, Total Depositors, TVL Change 24h), then a **My SuperVaults** grid. Each card is one vault you curate, with its chain badge, vault and asset addresses, asset symbol (e.g. `superWETH`), TVL, 24h/7d change, depositors, and a badge showing your role on that vault (e.g. `SECONDARY MANAGER`). ## 2. Open the Strategy Canvas Strategy Canvas — three lanes around the Vault Asset Pool Open a vault and click **Strategy** in its sidebar. The canvas arranges three lanes around the central **Vault Asset Pool** node (which shows the vault's TVL and primary asset). Each lane holds strategy cards; the `+` button on a lane adds a new strategy on that side. Above the canvas are zoom controls, a panning hint, a **Signing** key indicator, and an **Allow all strategies** master toggle. Each strategy card shows its name, priority rank, lifecycle state (e.g. `Idle`), and its yield source with an allocation percentage. ## The three lanes The canvas is organized into three lanes. This is a simplified overview to orient you in the UI — see [Strategy Canvas](/operate/ui/strategy) and [Strategy DSL](/operate/strategy/dsl) for exact semantics. * **Inflow — the "Deposit" lane.** Defines how assets sitting in the vault's reserve ("Free Assets") get deployed into underlying yield sources. A deposit into the SuperVault mints shares immediately, but the money is parked in Free Assets; the actual investment happens in a later transaction triggered by this lane's rules. * **Outflow — the "Withdraw" lane.** Defines how the Free Assets reserve is replenished over time. Redemptions are asynchronous (request → fulfill → claim), which draws down Free Assets, so this lane tops the reserve back up by pulling from yield sources. * **Rebalance.** Everything else — moving capital between yield sources, swaps, and bridges. Its target is derived from the vault, so this lane has no yield-source picker. ## The strategy editor The strategy editor — Variables palette, Yield source, Rule tree, Action hook, Size expression Opening or managing a strategy reveals a two-column editor. The left column is the **Variables** palette — the draggable/typed building blocks for your expressions: * **Vault-scoped:** `Free Assets`, `PPS`, `Total Supply`, `TVL`, `Redeem Queue Count`, `Redeem Queue Value`. * **Yield-source-scoped:** `YS Amount`, `YS Shares`, `YS APY`, `YS Base APY`, `YS Reward APY`, `YS TVL`. * **Price & time:** `WETH Price` (the asset price), and the `Tick *` family (`Tick Unix`, `Tick Hour`, `Tick DOW`, `Tick Day`, `Tick Month`, `Tick Year`, …). * **Indicators:** custom aliases you define (moving averages, RSI, etc.). The right column is the form: **Yield source**, **Rule tree** (the trigger), **Action hook**, **Size expression**, **Max slippage**, and **Execution optimization**. ## Build a deposit strategy The rest of this page builds one deposit strategy end to end: *when the idle reserve climbs above 5% of TVL, deploy the excess into a yield source.* ### 1. Add a deposit strategy On the **Deposit** lane (right side), hover to reveal a `DEPOSIT STRATEGY +` placeholder and click the `+`. The editor opens with a draft card on the left and the empty form on the right. ### 2. Name it Naming the strategy and choosing a yield source Edit the name field in the top-left. In the screenshots it's called `Default Deposit 1`. ### 3. Select a yield source In the **Yield source** section, search the vault's whitelisted sources by name or address and pick one (here, `SeamlessWETH`). Each entry shows its type (`ERC4626`) and addresses. ### 4. Write the trigger (rule tree) The rule tree set to Free Assets > 5 * TVL / 100 The **Rule tree** is a boolean expression built from the Variables on the left. When it evaluates to `true`, the strategy fires — which is why it's also called the *trigger expression*. A common pattern is "deposit when the idle reserve exceeds X% of TVL". For a 5% threshold: ```text theme={null} Free Assets > 5 * TVL / 100 ``` Write the threshold as `5 * TVL / 100`, not `0.05 * TVL`. Both sides then scale identically, so the engine's raw-integer comparison is exact without any explicit decimal handling. Dividing by the literal `100` is always safe; avoid dividing by a *variable* (like a price or PPS), which the validator can reject at save time. ### 5. Choose the action hook When the trigger passes, the strategy calls a **hook**. For a deposit into an ERC-4626 yield source, that hook is `ApproveAndDeposit4626VaultHook`, which the **Action hook** dropdown selects by default. ### 6. Set the size expression The size expression, slippage, and execution optimization Almost every hook takes an amount. The **Size expression** is a numeric expression that evaluates to that amount. Mirroring the trigger, deposit *only the excess* above the 5% target: ```text theme={null} Free Assets - 5 * TVL / 100 ``` This is non-negative by construction whenever the trigger is true, so the reserve lands back at exactly 5% of TVL. This is the canonical Canvas pattern: the rule is a threshold-breach test, and the size is the closed-form correction that resets the reserve to target. A deposit sizes in **asset** units (here, WETH). Withdrawals are different — they redeem **shares**. See [Action Config](/operate/strategy/action-config) for the per-action unit rules. ### 7. Set slippage Slippage is in basis points. The example uses a low `2` bps: depositing into a 4626 vault is effectively slippage-free, but setting it to exactly `0` can revert on tiny rounding in the source's favor, so leave a small buffer. ### 8. Choose execution optimization Pick how OMS prioritizes execution: **Minimize slippage**, **Minimize time**, or **Balanced**. With no real slippage on a 4626 deposit, the default **Balanced** is fine. Then click **Create** to save. ## Reading a saved strategy A saved strategy in the Manage view, with rule and size as formatted chips Clicking **Manage** on an existing card reopens the editor with the saved rule and size shown as formatted chips — each pill is one token (variables like `Free Assets` and `TVL`, comparators, operators, literals, and parentheses). The example above uses a 40% target rather than 5%; the threshold is your choice, but the rule/size pattern is identical. ## Next steps * [Strategy Quickstart](/operate/strategy/quickstart) — the same deposit/withdrawal pair as JSON, ready to POST. * [Strategy DSL](/operate/strategy/dsl) — variables, operators, and validation rules. * [Action Config](/operate/strategy/action-config) — hook fields and per-action size units. * [Intent History](/operate/ui/intent-history) — verify the intents your strategy produces once it's running.