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Credit demo

Agent Credit Note

A parent agent issues bounded, policy-constrained credit to a sub-agent. Redemption only happens after work is verified.

Open credit flowAgent metrics

Status

Research

Research

This is the key shift from one-off agent payments to an agent economy: credit coordinates work before final settlement.

Flow

What happens

  1. 1Parent agent creates a bounded budget.
  2. 2Parent issues a short-lived Note to a sub-agent.
  3. 3Sub-agent uses the Note for a task or tool call.
  4. 4Verifier checks the task-conditioned acceptance predicate.
  5. 5The Note redeems or expires according to policy.

Receipt shape

Fields to inspect

reserveId
noteId
budgetCap
allowedRecipients
acceptancePredicate
redemptionStatus

Run modes

Research

No live credit

Shown as a design target. It must remain bounded, auditable and testnet-first.

Testnet

Later

Requires explicit Note/Reserve/Tracker test vectors and audit-gated safety language.

Safety rules

No unlimited credit creation.

Notes must be reserve-backed or policy-bounded.

Redemption must be tied to explicit verification rules.

Prototype event stream

What becomes live

Turn the design event into a testnet Note/Reserve/Tracker vector before calling it live.

credit-note.designedverification.accepted

API preview

Open JSON
curl https://www.ergoblockchain.org/api/agent-economy/events

This endpoint is prototype telemetry. It is intentionally separate from live usage counters until demos emit signed receipts.

Expected JSON

Demo output shape

No mainnet
{
  "noteId": "note_demo_001",
  "budgetCap": "0.1 ERG",
  "state": "research",
  "redemption": { "requires": "verified_work" }
}