Knos: the neutral meter.
The neutral meter for AI agent work: neither side keeps the count.
Of 241 merged agent pull requests that claimed passing tests, 30 had a failed check.
uvx knos shadow invoice.csv
The claim
Two parties who distrust each other compute the same bill from evidence a third party signed. The program releases the money on that signature, with no company and no oracle in the middle.
Limits, in one line: Solana devnet, test USDC, no outside users yet (docs/DISCLOSURE.md).
The meter: two ledgers, one bill
- Buyer and supplier each keep their own ledger of the evaluations GitHub signed.
- Each runs
knos meter reconcileon its own copy and rebuilds the same statement, line for line. - A line is agreed, disputed, duplicate or insufficient evidence, and only an agreed line is billed (docs/METER.md).
The money: released on a signature
- The buyer fixes the work, the budget and the acceptance terms before it starts; the terms are hashed into the order.
- GitHub signs the workflow run that judged the work, and a Solana program checks that signature itself before it pays, in test USDC.
- The smallest example is a bounty: a maintainer comments
/knos fund 20 checks: test, and a merge withtestpassing pays the author.
The number
241 merged pull requests by AI coding agents said tests or CI pass; 30 had a failed check at the head commit (docs/backtest.json, counted by scripts/backtest.py).
The second number: 17.8% of first such pull requests, 147 of 826 repositories (docs/BENCH.md). A failed check is GitHub's record, not a judgment of why it failed.
What is real today
| What | Today | Read from |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on the public devnet program ids | token verification; a bounty funded by one comment, paid on merge, refunded at its deadline; one counted evaluation; a payee's passkey wallet | docs/CAPABILITIES.md, the rows above "tested locally" |
| Tested here only | work orders, the ledger and its statements, the invoice check, the console, the exports, and every other capability | docs/CAPABILITIES.md, the rows "tested locally" |
| Outside funders | 0 | docs/submission/NUMBERS.md, row 1 |
| Outside repositories | 0 | docs/submission/NUMBERS.md, row 2 |
| Outside payees | 1, on tasks Knos funded itself | docs/submission/NUMBERS.md, row 3 |
| Payments between unrelated accounts | 3, on tasks Knos funded itself | docs/submission/NUMBERS.md, row 4 |
| Buyer interviews held | 0 | docs/submission/NUMBERS.md, row 5 |
| Letters of intent | 0 | docs/submission/NUMBERS.md, row 6 |
| Reproductions signed by GitHub | 0 | docs/submission/NUMBERS.md, row 7 |
| Outside programs reading the verifier | 0 | docs/submission/NUMBERS.md, row 8 |
| Shadow counts published | 0 | docs/submission/NUMBERS.md, row 9 |
| Paying customers | 0 | docs/DISCLOSURE.md |
| Revenue | 0; test USDC is not money | docs/MARKET.md |
| Outside security review | none | docs/ASSURANCE.md |
| Key holders | one person holds every key; an upgrade waits 48 hours in public | docs/GOVERNANCE.md |
| Network and money | Solana devnet, test USDC; mainnet is not touched | docs/SECURITY.md |
Read more
docs/STORY.md: the three-minute demonstration in six beats, each with its evidence. docs/MANIFEST.md: this release on one page: source, the build live at each public program id, every capability's stage, the limits. docs/README.md: every document, under six questions.
Below this line: records that scripts write from their sources, and the licence. Nothing here is typed by hand.
| program | address | on devnet, as docs/capabilities.json records it |
|---|---|---|
knos-oidc, the verifier |
FkwZdsYCmzicJMtHLTkPK76bYNVG4WNwkWJBiVWNtF3W |
runs 2.1 |
knos-pay, the escrow |
5y7iWJ1VAMJjnnWbbdo2a2PsWJEwTExSNpzrvQSEnS8k |
runs 2.1 |
knos-meter, the count |
FUMKkcE95x2kZUj1zZTCbgcYBmJ3WXPHL8pyA8J6anX |
runs 1.1 |
knos-passkey, a wallet from a passkey |
FQPX9i5kQxLYKZyyPgM2fVK9am3w1LSk1Cuoer1sSY85 |
runs 1.1 |
This page names no time for an upgrade, so that it is true before and after one. Whether a proposal is pending, has
executed or was withdrawn is read from the chain by knos status, the site's banner and the site's
upgrade record (web/upgrades.json is the
committed copy). The first deployment (programs) has no upgrade authority and stays as a record; nothing
new is funded there.
Reproduced by someone else: none recorded yet. Exercised on devnet: verify_github, fund_from_wallet, refund, work_orders, order_pay, tests_mode, order_auto_accept, top_up, single_use_tokens, meter_batch, meter_seller_claim, passkey_funder, passkey_fund_relay, buyer_page, x402_knos_order, outcome_not_code. Deployed on devnet: verify_gitlab, key_guardian, fund_by_comment, pay_on_merge, hold_and_bind, pause, meter_single, passkey_payee_wallet, upgrade_gate. Everything else is tested locally, implemented or not built: the table with the evidence has one row for each capability, from docs/capabilities.json. Deployed and exercised are counted only at the public program ids; what the 0.3.14 rehearsal ran at staging addresses of its own is in the note of each capability it ran, with its transaction.
MIT, all of it. Built by drexthealpha. Its memory engine is Sibyl.
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