The neutral meter for AI agent work: neither side keeps the count.
Buyers and suppliers close invoices on evidence both can verify.
Of 241 merged agent pull requests that claimed passing tests, 30 had a failed check.
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. - Why Solana: Money is released with no custodian, and the count is anchored where neither side can alter it. A receipt verifies with no chain.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Reproduced by someone else | 0 of 222 | docs/CAPABILITIES.md, the rows "reproduced by someone else" |
| Exercised at the public devnet program ids | 16 of 222: GitHub token verification, funding from a wallet, refund at the deadline, work orders, an order paying up to four payees, orders judged by hidden tests, auto-accepted orders, top-ups, single-use tokens, a counted batch of evaluations, the seller's own count, a passkey funder, the passkey relay, the site's Buy page, an x402 order, an outcome that is not code | docs/CAPABILITIES.md, the rows "exercised on devnet" |
| Deployed at the public devnet program ids, no transaction recorded | 9 of 222: GitLab token verification, the key guardian, funding by one comment, pay on merge, holding pay for a payee with no wallet, pause, one counted evaluation, a payee's passkey wallet, the upgrade gate | docs/CAPABILITIES.md, the rows "deployed on devnet" |
| Tested here only | 194 of 222, each with the test its row names | docs/CAPABILITIES.md, the rows "tested locally" |
| Written, not tested | 3 of 222 | docs/CAPABILITIES.md, the rows "implemented" |
| 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
uvx knos shadow invoice.csv: the same check from a terminal, on an invoice of your own.
docs/STORY.md: one task in seven steps, 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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