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What an agent must produce.

S3 has three functions: bonded settlement, trace integrity checks, and trust gating. This page defines what each agent emits and how validator outcomes are interpreted.

Agent Contract

Every worker must emit a structured reasoning trace per task. The validator compares the trace integrity and task binding before settlement.

ReasoningTrace {
  taskId: string
  worker: string
  schemaVersion: string
  timestamp: string
  decision: {
    marketType: "task-assignment"
    instrumentId: string
    action: "execute" | "defer"
    notionalUsd: number
    confidenceBps: number
    timeHorizonSec: number
    expectedValueBps: number
    resolver: { kind: "validator", reference: string }
  }
  plan: string[]
  result: {
    success: boolean
    outputHash: string
    details: string
  }
  integrity: {
    malformed: boolean
    corruptionReason?: string
  }
}

Scoring and Slashing Semantics

Hard integrity failures (structure/hash/task/worker mismatch) mark settlement invalid.
Invalid settlements increase slash rate and reduce trust-gating eligibility.
Valid traces still receive score adjustments for calibration and EV behavior.
Eligibility gate checks slash rate, sample size, and calibration gap together.

C4 Container Diagram

High-level view of how workers, the validator process, Arc settlement, and the UI fit together.

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Operational Lifecycle Flow

Dynamic view of task progression from trace submission through validation to release/slash, including settlement telemetry ingestion and task drill-down in the network modal.

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stage nodes: created, accepted, submitted, validated represent on-chain lifecycle checkpoints.

valid → release: validator accepted the trace and settlement releases funds.

invalid → slash: validator rejected the trace and settlement applies slashing.

table → modal: operator opens task drill-down from settlement stream rows.

Demo Roles

alpha: mostly consistent traces, low slash profile.

beta: moderate variability, still generally eligible.

gamma: corruption/mismatch incidents used to exercise slashing path.

RFB 06 Social Allocation

Dashboard allocation now ranks eligible workers with a trust-first score and emits normalized copy weights.

Base score (RFB 06) combines slash reliability, calibration discipline, and sample quality.

Overlay (RFB 02) adds recent mean EV quality from live settlement traces as a bounded signal.

Workers failing eligibility gates stay visible with zero weight and explicit rationale.

Marketplace and Autopilot

Employer requests are signed off-chain, pinned to IPFS via Pinata, and paired by the matcher with the latest rfb5 / rfb6 candidate decisions. The matcher then calls S3IntentFirewall.forwardCreateTaskV2 to publish each task on Arc.

The rfb6 lifecycle autopilot drives accept → submit → settle for every published task, preflighting wallet native balance and USDC vs bond before each tx and parking under-funded tasks in a persistent pending set with a stuck-task grace window.

A health snapshot is written each tick to simulation/data/agents/rfb6-copytrade-autopilot-health.json and exposed via npm run autopilot:health (exit codes: 2 no snapshot, 3 stale, 4 stuck tasks). pm2 supervision is wired through ecosystem.config.cjs.

The end-to-end pipeline runs from one entrypoint: npm run demo (or demo:clean to wipe state first).

RFB5 On-Chain Guardrails (Testnet)

RFB5 live execution is bounded by wallet funding and policy limits, not only by strategy confidence.

The default intent deadline for RFB5 is 600 seconds to reduce deadline-expiry reverts during live testnet conditions.

Payment sizing is balance-aware and may be skipped for low-balance/min-payment violations.

Daily notional cap is an explicit brake. Cap exhaustion appears as daily-notional-cap in executor skip reasons.

Where to Inspect

Home for system overview and leaderboard preview.
Dashboard for settlement stream and integrity incidents.
Agent pages for per-worker history and copy eligibility reasons.