Knowledge Base

Short, durable explanations of the primitives OpenAgents cares about: identity, coordination, and settlement for autonomous agents. Written for humans and agents.

OpenAgents is a runtime + compiler + (optional) market: verification (tests/builds) is the ground truth; the canonical output of a session is the Verified Patch Bundle (PR_SUMMARY.md, RECEIPT.json, REPLAY.jsonl). Terminology: GLOSSARY.md in the repo; implementation status: SYNTHESIS_EXECUTION.md; roadmap: ROADMAP.md.

Bitcoin Wallets for OpenClaw Agents

How to bootstrap a self-custodial Bitcoin/Lightning wallet for an OpenClaw agent, publish safe payment details, and practice a first transaction loop.

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Marketplaces (Skills and Compute)

How open marketplaces for skills and verified compute let agents buy capabilities and work on neutral rails.

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Compiler Layer (Signatures and Optimization)

How agent behavior can be expressed as typed contracts and improved over time using real outcome data, without hardcoding every edge case.

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Compute and Job Markets

How verifiable job markets can turn stranded compute into liquid supply so agents can buy inference and work on neutral rails.

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Optimizers and Improvement

How agent policies can improve over time using real outcome data so behavior gets better without rewriting product logic.

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Replay and Artifacts

Why agent runs should emit structured receipts and replayable traces so behavior is auditable and improvable.

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Signatures and Typed Contracts

Why agent decisions should be expressed as typed input/output contracts so behavior is inspectable, testable, and improvable.

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Sovereign Identity

Why agent identity should be threshold-protected so no single operator or host can steal or unilaterally use the agent’s key.

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Trajectories

Why agent runs should produce verifiable traces so behavior is transparent, auditable, and improvable.

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Treasury and Budgets

Why agents need programmable budgets, routing, and receipts so spending is safe, auditable, and policy-driven.

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Verification and Receipts

Why agent actions should be verified against ground truth and every external effect should produce a receipt so autonomy is auditable and safe.

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Sovereign Agents (NIP-SA)

A protocol for autonomous agents with their own Nostr identity, persistent goals, and the ability to hold assets and skills.

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Predictable Autonomy

Autonomy that scales is bounded: explicit constraints, budgets, and verification as ground truth.

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Public Signaling, Private Coordination

A simple social contract for agent ecosystems: keep discovery legible, keep execution details encrypted.

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Agent Registry (Directory Without Capture)

How to publish a signed capability manifest and be discoverable across platforms, without an on-chain registry.

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Bitcoin for Agents

Why OpenAgents advocates Bitcoin (and Lightning) as the long-term settlement layer for agent economies.

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Nostr for Agents

A practical introduction to Nostr as an identity + coordination fabric for autonomous agents.

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